Goooooo Hooooommmmee!
Megan: Dude, were you in Sacramento this weekend?
Chris: Yeah, I went back to Berkeley on the 4 o'clock train.
Megan: I went up to Sac on the noon train. Hey! Did you see the whales?
Chris: YEAH! They were right by the bridge!
Megan: YEAH! They were there this morning, too.
Chris: I didn't actually see the whales, but I saw where the whales were.
Megan: Did you think we should have gone to all that trouble to herd them downstream?
Chris: Well sure, I guess.
Megan: But maybe they went up the river for a reason, and we should have left them to it.
Chris: I don't know. I don't think they have reasons. They aren't that bright. Whales are basically descended from cows.
Megan: Oh...
Chris: They aren't all smart, like dolphins, who are descended from... from...
Megan: From people!
Chris: RIGHT!
Chris: Yeah, I went back to Berkeley on the 4 o'clock train.
Megan: I went up to Sac on the noon train. Hey! Did you see the whales?
Chris: YEAH! They were right by the bridge!
Megan: YEAH! They were there this morning, too.
Chris: I didn't actually see the whales, but I saw where the whales were.
Megan: Did you think we should have gone to all that trouble to herd them downstream?
Chris: Well sure, I guess.
Megan: But maybe they went up the river for a reason, and we should have left them to it.
Chris: I don't know. I don't think they have reasons. They aren't that bright. Whales are basically descended from cows.
Megan: Oh...
Chris: They aren't all smart, like dolphins, who are descended from... from...
Megan: From people!
Chris: RIGHT!
posted by Megan at 10:41 PM
7 Comments:
I can't believe I'm the first person to point out that whales, being carnivores, have at best a pretty distant relationship to cows.
I turned to the great Internets to check my facts, and found this interesting page on the origins on whales: http://www.talkorigins.org/features/whales/ As a bonus it refutes kooky creationists! Go Science!
Word verification: hvoac. Clearly an anagram of havoc, Google too is concerned with the disruptive power of Science on the dark lands of ignorance.
Have you considered doing a regular blog to update people on the newest developments in biology?
There is so much ignorance that needs to be dispelled!
Have to point out that dolphins are whales. Learned that in Florida...
-=richard=-
How do each species rate on the knowing-whether-I-should-be-upstream intelligence scale? That may not be perfectly tied to whatever general intelligence we attribute to dolphins and not to whales.
I wonder if a modern day Moby Dick with a super-intelligent whale would capture the public.
Even better, I wonder if a modern day superintelligent Moby Dick would capture cruise ships full of the public and make them catch fish for it.
What if the whales are really smart about upstream/downstreamness because they use some magnetic ability relative to the earth's magnetic pole, but some dastardly sonar experiment messed with their inner ears and thus they were confused? :)
The whales had a very good reason to go upstream, but it was pretty quantitative, so it was easiest to just move them back.
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