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Above Kaslo
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Sunday night, drive up to new road above Kaslo. High up, had done some research, now time to check it out.
25 or so KM of logging roads - the geology, exactly the same as Crystal Mountan, abundant dirty & rusty quartz, metamorphic shales, Monday morning I find I actually had been up here before, or close enough, a rave (the one with the lunatic on acid)...
Check it all out. Off the road there is nothing, but there are mines - and amazing views - another 15 KM further up, but this has to be done hiking, and so now I've got to plan for some water and a long evening hike up the mountain...
Later, later in the summer, there are too many other places I have to get back to...
Fruit Flies Age Faster After Witnessing Death
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This is fascinating:
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/science/fruit-flies-death-aging.html
In brief, fruit flies that have witnessed or been in the presence of other dead fruit flies will age faster than fruit flies that have not. And - for reasons yet unknown, fruit flies that have been exposed to death are thereafter avoided or shunned by those of their brethren that have not witnessed death.
If the simple psychology of a fruit fly can have that kind of reaction to death or trauma, what then of people?
And, while on the surface unrelated it reminds me how once Hollywood established the convention that people fall down dead when they've been shot, and people have been doing that ever since (when in fact chances are you've got a fair bit of life in you yet...).
Rub-a-dub-dub
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Rub-a-Dub-Dub
5 men in a sub
and who/where do you think they be?
The Diver, The Pilot, The Founder who founders
A Billionaire and his heir...
All Crushed now and Drowned at the bottom of the Sea...
(actually, only need: "Rub-a-Dub-Dub, 5 Men in a Sub, And Where do you think they be???"...Everyone knows the rest...)
That the Entirely Predictable Misadventures of the most unsympathetic and entitled band of Adventurers should demand our undivided attention, sympathy, empathy and grief, well, no thanks, there are better causes.
Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders
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2 hours of my life I'll never get back...
I'd heard good things about it, finally got around to watching it. And no. Not my cup of tea, not at all.
That said, most reviews disagree.
Link: Wiki on Paris, Texas
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