if you tried to describe the earth’s geomagnetic interaction with the solar wind
with a bronze-age vocabulary, you might come up with something a whole lot like certain descriptions of angels
i mean, wheels within wheels and fiery wings? eyes in wheels and wings! how do you make sense of that shape if your scientific knowlege extends only about as far as “if i leave a skin of milk hanging by the door overnight it may or may not be yogurt by morning”?
I remember once reading a post that explained why angels were, in fact, black holes.
This fascinating creature was discovered in 1998 off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia on the bottom of a muddy river mouth. For the next 2 years, scientists filmed nine different mimic octopuses, Thaumoctopus mimicus (Norman & Hochberg, 2005), impersonating sea snakes, lionfish, and flatfish—a strategy used to avoid predators. Mimic octopuses reach about 60 cm in length and are typically brown and white striped.
Mimic octopuses have been observed shifting between impersonations as it crosses the ocean floor to return to its burrow. Scientists speculate that additional mimic species will be found in muddy river and estuary bottoms in the tropics as these areas are typically unexplored.
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