Well, my sister has brought it to my attention that if I don't post in awhile, there's the wonder if I've dropped off the edge of the world...a wonder myself I have about blogs that just stop in mid stride...don't do that, bloggers, it's annoying...make a notation, like, brb (be right back), or bio (need a visit the bathroom), or some such...:)
another crocodile poem...
Crocodile
Somewhere Crocodile is chomping
And Newborn Babes are teething
Day and Night
At the Crossroads (Harbor and Banner, OC, CA, USA)
Traffic turns left turns right,
Stops and goes,
Turns right turns left,
Goes and stops,
Night and Day.
Dolphinwords
10/21/15
GG
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"Why, why, why is it always so costly for man to move from the present into the future?"
closing line from: 20 Million Miles to Earth, 1957 movie
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My memory had it that the title was 'million years' to Earth, but that's a confusion with '5 Million Years to Earth 1967', another movie...brb...go see if I can watch that one on youtube too!...ah..no luck...just snips and trailers on youtube...in one trailer the curio of the circles on the side of the ship, which look to be how one would draw a pentagram just using a compass!...
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The plot, which is largely faithful to the original television production, centres on the discovery of a mysterious object buried at the site of an extension to the London Underground. Also uncovered nearby are the remains of early human ancestors more than five million years old. Realising that the object is in fact an ancient Martian spacecraft, Quatermass deduces that the aliens have influenced human evolution and the development of human intelligence. The spacecraft has an intelligence of its own, and once uncovered begins to exert a malign influence, resurrecting Martian memories and instincts buried deep within the human psyche.
Quatermass and the Pit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film)
and the plot from 20 Million...
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Off the coast of a small Sicilian fishing village, two fishermen watch in amazement as a spaceship pierces the skies and crashes into the sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Million_Miles_to_Earth
unquote
The spaceship is carrying a specimen from Venus that grows up to be a giant dinosaur that rampages through Rome..."Creature?...loose and on the rampage!" being said after it escapes the Zoo where it was trapped and being studied.
Is Venus only 20 million miles?...it would seem so!...about 24 million at closest approach...
anyway, anyway, it was the 'millions' and the distances of these old movies that rang a bell when I read this:
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Ancient Caribbean lizards in amber amaze scientists
http://repeatingislands.com/2015/07/27/ancient-caribbean-lizards-in-amber-amaze-scientists/
unquote
Darwin could have shortened his journey to the Galapagos, and just gone to these Caribbean Islands and studied the lizards!...
Not only has the niche one particular lizard species lives in remained unchanged for millions of years, this remarkably on such a small island, Hispaniola, but the different lizards on different nearby islands have evolved in parallel into self similar body types...
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Using x-ray microcomputer tomography to produce three dimensional reconstructions of the fossils inside their amber cocoons, the researchers showed that the diversity of lizards that resulted 20 million years ago is the same seen today.
“Given we see the same range of morphological features this means the community of lizards has remained unchanged all this time,” says Sherratt.
unquote
A tropical forest is like a game board, and the species living on it like game pieces that are adapted to it. It's a wonder which comes first, the game board or the game pieces.
Checkers and chess are very old games, and nowadays one can go on line and find a game, with the computer as an opponent, or another player...I, I had the thought that these games of checkers and chess might just go on forever, or however long the web game board for game boards continues!...myself, I've gravitated to playing World of Warcraft, WOW, along with millions...this for like four years, and the game has been around for like ten...how long it will continue comes up in the forum discussions...and it has so much variety that the question fragments...some game features may last a long time, like checkers and chess, others will succumb to boredom, lack of interest, and such...
I wonder how long the old science fiction movies I watched will still be watched!...or remade...that keeps happening as film technology improves...it's happening to us too!...to our imaginations!...
Some technologies once they get going, have kept on, like the electrical power plant at Niagara Falls...it was one of the first, and provides lighting to New York...
Like for the Lizards in the Tropical Forests on the Caribbean Islands, Cities have become shadowbox niches for people to occupy with their occupations...Cities are our game boards, our eco systems...and hard to say which came first, the game board cities, or the city game pieces!
oh...to continue this I need to dig out my old poem, The Coral City...for tomorrowmorrow!...:)
oh!...the monster dinosaur had a name...
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The Ymir was a green colored scaly alien, with a dinosaur-like tail, feet with a humanoid upper torso and arms, along with a sagittal crest on its head. It also had simian-like facial features with large jowls hanging from its cheeks. It constantly increased in size due to tissue build-up as a side effect of inhaling Earth's different atmosphere from its own native world. At the time of it's death, it stood somewhere between 10 to 20 feet tall.
http://gwangipedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ymir
unquote
The Ymir looked a bit lost, so far from home, climbing about the Roman Coliseum...gladiator contests to the death lasted a good thousand years before being banned...or at least relegated to make believe!
quote
The origin of gladiatorial combat is open to debate. There is evidence of it in funeral rites during the Punic Wars of the 3rd century BC, and thereafter it rapidly became an essential feature of politics and social life in the Roman world. Its popularity led to its use in ever more lavish and costly games.
The gladiator games lasted for nearly a thousand years, reaching their peak between the 1st century BC and the 2nd century AD. The games finally declined during the early 5th century after the adoption of Christianity as state church of the Roman Empire in 380, although beast hunts (venationes) continued into the 6th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator
unquote
quote (see above shadowbox link:)
It's a timeless quality, a feeling the place grew and aged right there, like an ancient forest with all the accompanying fungi and flora.
How The Shadow Box in Seaside aims to upgrade its game with cabaret.
Mark Anderson
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/food_blog/how-the-shadow-box-in-seaside-aims-to-upgrade-its/article_5b7770c0-e793-11e3-927f-0017a43b2370.html
unquote
DavidDavid
quote
"Why, why, why is it always so costly for man to move from the present into the future?"
closing line from: 20 Million Miles to Earth, 1957 movie
unquote
My memory had it that the title was 'million years' to Earth, but that's a confusion with '5 Million Years to Earth 1967', another movie...brb...go see if I can watch that one on youtube too!...ah..no luck...just snips and trailers on youtube...in one trailer the curio of the circles on the side of the ship, which look to be how one would draw a pentagram just using a compass!...
quote
The plot, which is largely faithful to the original television production, centres on the discovery of a mysterious object buried at the site of an extension to the London Underground. Also uncovered nearby are the remains of early human ancestors more than five million years old. Realising that the object is in fact an ancient Martian spacecraft, Quatermass deduces that the aliens have influenced human evolution and the development of human intelligence. The spacecraft has an intelligence of its own, and once uncovered begins to exert a malign influence, resurrecting Martian memories and instincts buried deep within the human psyche.
Quatermass and the Pit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film)
and the plot from 20 Million...
quote
Off the coast of a small Sicilian fishing village, two fishermen watch in amazement as a spaceship pierces the skies and crashes into the sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Million_Miles_to_Earth
unquote
The spaceship is carrying a specimen from Venus that grows up to be a giant dinosaur that rampages through Rome..."Creature?...loose and on the rampage!" being said after it escapes the Zoo where it was trapped and being studied.
Is Venus only 20 million miles?...it would seem so!...about 24 million at closest approach...
anyway, anyway, it was the 'millions' and the distances of these old movies that rang a bell when I read this:
quote
A community of lizards from the Caribbean, preserved for 20 million years in amber, have been found to be identical to their modern cousins, Stuart Gary reports for ABC Science.
This suggests the different niches inhabited by the lizards have – incredibly – changed little over the past 20 million-year, report the team, in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Ancient Caribbean lizards in amber amaze scientists
http://repeatingislands.com/2015/07/27/ancient-caribbean-lizards-in-amber-amaze-scientists/
unquote
Darwin could have shortened his journey to the Galapagos, and just gone to these Caribbean Islands and studied the lizards!...
Not only has the niche one particular lizard species lives in remained unchanged for millions of years, this remarkably on such a small island, Hispaniola, but the different lizards on different nearby islands have evolved in parallel into self similar body types...
quote
Using x-ray microcomputer tomography to produce three dimensional reconstructions of the fossils inside their amber cocoons, the researchers showed that the diversity of lizards that resulted 20 million years ago is the same seen today.
“Given we see the same range of morphological features this means the community of lizards has remained unchanged all this time,” says Sherratt.
unquote
A tropical forest is like a game board, and the species living on it like game pieces that are adapted to it. It's a wonder which comes first, the game board or the game pieces.
Checkers and chess are very old games, and nowadays one can go on line and find a game, with the computer as an opponent, or another player...I, I had the thought that these games of checkers and chess might just go on forever, or however long the web game board for game boards continues!...myself, I've gravitated to playing World of Warcraft, WOW, along with millions...this for like four years, and the game has been around for like ten...how long it will continue comes up in the forum discussions...and it has so much variety that the question fragments...some game features may last a long time, like checkers and chess, others will succumb to boredom, lack of interest, and such...
I wonder how long the old science fiction movies I watched will still be watched!...or remade...that keeps happening as film technology improves...it's happening to us too!...to our imaginations!...
Some technologies once they get going, have kept on, like the electrical power plant at Niagara Falls...it was one of the first, and provides lighting to New York...
Like for the Lizards in the Tropical Forests on the Caribbean Islands, Cities have become shadowbox niches for people to occupy with their occupations...Cities are our game boards, our eco systems...and hard to say which came first, the game board cities, or the city game pieces!
oh...to continue this I need to dig out my old poem, The Coral City...for tomorrowmorrow!...:)
oh!...the monster dinosaur had a name...
quote
The Ymir was a green colored scaly alien, with a dinosaur-like tail, feet with a humanoid upper torso and arms, along with a sagittal crest on its head. It also had simian-like facial features with large jowls hanging from its cheeks. It constantly increased in size due to tissue build-up as a side effect of inhaling Earth's different atmosphere from its own native world. At the time of it's death, it stood somewhere between 10 to 20 feet tall.
http://gwangipedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ymir
unquote
The Ymir looked a bit lost, so far from home, climbing about the Roman Coliseum...gladiator contests to the death lasted a good thousand years before being banned...or at least relegated to make believe!
quote
The origin of gladiatorial combat is open to debate. There is evidence of it in funeral rites during the Punic Wars of the 3rd century BC, and thereafter it rapidly became an essential feature of politics and social life in the Roman world. Its popularity led to its use in ever more lavish and costly games.
The gladiator games lasted for nearly a thousand years, reaching their peak between the 1st century BC and the 2nd century AD. The games finally declined during the early 5th century after the adoption of Christianity as state church of the Roman Empire in 380, although beast hunts (venationes) continued into the 6th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator
unquote
quote (see above shadowbox link:)
It's a timeless quality, a feeling the place grew and aged right there, like an ancient forest with all the accompanying fungi and flora.
How The Shadow Box in Seaside aims to upgrade its game with cabaret.
Mark Anderson
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/food_blog/how-the-shadow-box-in-seaside-aims-to-upgrade-its/article_5b7770c0-e793-11e3-927f-0017a43b2370.html
unquote
DavidDavid
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