Thought provoking Nova episode on PBS, When Whales Could Walk

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thrumming with potential
Anybody else watch this?


So, if you haven't seen it, wales started in the ocean, evolved to be on land, decided fuck this, I'm going back to the ocean and evolved again. It really made me think.

I thought what if? What if humans evolved to go back in the ocean? What would that be like? Unless I'm running late, I do exercises for my back. tighten the abdominals and the back muscles are thin to begin with. Develop your core and it holds the discs in your spine in place. So, I'm doing my exercises, most of them I do laying on my back, one of them, you raise your hand like you are asking a question, tighten your arm muscles and bring your arm down back to your side. I do that 15 times for each arm. To save time, as one arm is going down, I'm raising the other arm to be ready to go down. Wife walks in and says it looks like I'm swimming. I'm so not a swimmer. I don't float, I sink. Ever since then, I keep thinking what if I evolved to go back in the ocean.

I'm swimming effortlessly. I say hi to Buddy the elf. I don't have flippers, the only two evolutions are, 1) My neck is a little longer and my head is oriented to my body like a dog or cat so, as i swim, my face is facing forward, not down. 2) There is a shaft, looks like a broomstick coming out of my rear end, at the top of it is a fan blade. Looks like one from an old timey desk fan, the ones with the thick wire cages you could stick your hand in. It's rotating very slowly and couldn't possibly be creating lift like a helicopter but, somehow it's working and I'm not sinking.
 
I watched the video. It was interesting.

I’m not the strongest swimmer, but I can float on my back for hours in a swimming pool. Choppy water is much more of a challenge, so I have no plans to evolve back into ocean living. Anyway, I’m pretty sure the oceans are where aliens are hiding their spaceships and I’m trying to avoid anal probes.
 
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I don't think humans evolving to live in the deep would be as glamorous as you might think.

Sure, you would get a great core workout.

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Vic Morrow, there's a name I haven't seen in a while.

And yeah, the ocean is full of dangers but, the air isn't so great either.

I remember a really bad 'joke' from high school. It was in the poorest taste.
My buddy Greg grabs both ends of a dollar bill. He moves his fingers together, then quickly moves them apart so the buck makes a flap sound. He does it again and again. Flap, flap, flap, flap, flap.
Greg: "what is this noise?"

Me: "I don't know ".

Greg: "it's the last sound Vic Morrow heard".

He died on the set of Twilight Zone The Movie. A helicopter crashed into him.
 
I remember a really bad 'joke' from high school. It was in the poorest taste.
My buddy Greg grabs both ends of a dollar bill. He moves his fingers together, then quickly moves them apart so the buck makes a flap sound. He does it again and again. Flap, flap, flap, flap, flap.
Greg: "what is this noise?"

Me: "I don't know ".

Greg: "it's the last sound Vic Morrow heard".

He died on the set of Twilight Zone The Movie. A helicopter crashed into him.
Yep. Also, it went over my head that I posted "creating lift like a helicopter" then you posted a movie with Vic Morrow in it.
 
does anyone remember who i was supposed to send it to next

I don't know who's next but, you can send it to Jasper Dash or, Katie Mulligan. For the love of God, whatever you do, don't send it to Lily Gefelty. Her dad works for the mad scientist.
 
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