This is only the second of your amazing articles I have read, the first one being about Asher's artwork.
Please excuse the spelling but I am recently back from the Heart Hospital following a stroke and then a heart attack " black " eye. More specifically the black blob hanging to the left side of my nose is in my left field of vision which is currently unavailable to take signals from either orb, leaving me with a rather fuzzy picture of the world that does not comport with the way that I've always read a line at a time because I'm not sure where that line begins because I have some kind of ghost writing hanging to the left of the screen.
Proofing and editing are also difficult but I will try to clean up areas that are likely to be confusing to a reader.
What I wanted to say in this besides sniveling about my difficulties is that you are a really good writer and write about very interesting topics which I have been reluctant to pursue because I knew they would hook me in and at 80 years old with a very complex family life and a high maintenance lifestyle of exercise, nutrition and sleep and "a head full of ideas that are driving me insane" and recent DNA driven heart problems that have made it obvious I do not have forever to download those ideas and I don't want them turned to ashes, no matter how decorative the urn.
I did not intend to read this one but the word Mega flood drew me in and caused me to return three or four times after I stepped out to do something and had to rapidly scroll through to find my place again until I finally finished it this morning.
As I suspected not only did I find your topic to be amazing but you're writing to be amazing as well, including not only your ability to convey the all you feel at such amazing events but also those little aside comments about Britain's lack of tolerable weather and detectable emotions.
I always said that I wish Isaac Asimov had written all my high school textbooks and I would put you in that same category along with folks like Arthur Clark and Robert Audrey.
Perhaps if we somehow muddle through this current anti-science authoritarian mess we're in perhaps we will take steps to see that understanding how things work would go a long way towards useful solutions that don't involve Jewish space lasers and other total nonsense.
Having met you on the writers it is obvious to me that you are not only a good writer but a good person and with your educational bent can be part of the solution instead of part of the problem although it's going to take a good Mass psychologist to help us figure out how to educate people who do not think everything's amazing but rather simple and any hint of nuance is some kind of "woke" conspiracy to undermine the natural order of white male superiority as was firmly established and the collection of Legends and folk wisdom known as the Bible.
That bit about the human footprint made me wonder if at least some of the minor Mega floods might not have been witnessed and passed on, with a little extra baggage like " and God did that to punish the Wicked Ways that I don't agree with, so God must not agree with them either and you better look out or God and I will get you again!"
I have apparently wasted enough of your time already and as I Tire I find my thumb hitting the wrong place more often, creating even more confusion in my healing brain so it's time for lunch and a nap to reboot.
Your wide-eyed wonder, which you capture in a way that is both visceral and utterly charming, is a gift for all of us. To be all sappy and decidedly not-British about it. Thank you. 😊
Such an amazing read, as always! I love how you just pull us along at every turn -- always something I'm excited to see in my inbox.
I was thinking about how speculative/science fiction novels often talk about some big environmental event that marked a shift in humanity's approach to certain things (like climate, or water usage) and wondering if we're going to see some of those in our lifetimes, or if they exist in the realm of speculation. But I should have remembered about the mega floods!
The species whose footprints were found in Norfolk was a hominin thought to be Homo heidelbergensis, I think? Which was living in Europe at that time. I've wondered so often if there were hominins to witness one of these mega floods, but on the other hand why should the witnesses of other creatures be any less compelling?
I see some ragged writing right off the bat the heart attack left me with a black eye for instance. I did this with talk to text and I'm not that good at it yet and proofreading is really a strong with my eyesight right now
Love just flowing with your thoughts on this and imagining the scale of those mega-falls. That it's not just a Peter Jackson fantasy is mind-blowing. A real whiff of 'godly' perspective!
This is only the second of your amazing articles I have read, the first one being about Asher's artwork.
Please excuse the spelling but I am recently back from the Heart Hospital following a stroke and then a heart attack " black " eye. More specifically the black blob hanging to the left side of my nose is in my left field of vision which is currently unavailable to take signals from either orb, leaving me with a rather fuzzy picture of the world that does not comport with the way that I've always read a line at a time because I'm not sure where that line begins because I have some kind of ghost writing hanging to the left of the screen.
Proofing and editing are also difficult but I will try to clean up areas that are likely to be confusing to a reader.
What I wanted to say in this besides sniveling about my difficulties is that you are a really good writer and write about very interesting topics which I have been reluctant to pursue because I knew they would hook me in and at 80 years old with a very complex family life and a high maintenance lifestyle of exercise, nutrition and sleep and "a head full of ideas that are driving me insane" and recent DNA driven heart problems that have made it obvious I do not have forever to download those ideas and I don't want them turned to ashes, no matter how decorative the urn.
I did not intend to read this one but the word Mega flood drew me in and caused me to return three or four times after I stepped out to do something and had to rapidly scroll through to find my place again until I finally finished it this morning.
As I suspected not only did I find your topic to be amazing but you're writing to be amazing as well, including not only your ability to convey the all you feel at such amazing events but also those little aside comments about Britain's lack of tolerable weather and detectable emotions.
I always said that I wish Isaac Asimov had written all my high school textbooks and I would put you in that same category along with folks like Arthur Clark and Robert Audrey.
Perhaps if we somehow muddle through this current anti-science authoritarian mess we're in perhaps we will take steps to see that understanding how things work would go a long way towards useful solutions that don't involve Jewish space lasers and other total nonsense.
Having met you on the writers it is obvious to me that you are not only a good writer but a good person and with your educational bent can be part of the solution instead of part of the problem although it's going to take a good Mass psychologist to help us figure out how to educate people who do not think everything's amazing but rather simple and any hint of nuance is some kind of "woke" conspiracy to undermine the natural order of white male superiority as was firmly established and the collection of Legends and folk wisdom known as the Bible.
That bit about the human footprint made me wonder if at least some of the minor Mega floods might not have been witnessed and passed on, with a little extra baggage like " and God did that to punish the Wicked Ways that I don't agree with, so God must not agree with them either and you better look out or God and I will get you again!"
I have apparently wasted enough of your time already and as I Tire I find my thumb hitting the wrong place more often, creating even more confusion in my healing brain so it's time for lunch and a nap to reboot.
Your wide-eyed wonder, which you capture in a way that is both visceral and utterly charming, is a gift for all of us. To be all sappy and decidedly not-British about it. Thank you. 😊
As always, so mind blowing! The moon could have formed in hours?! So interesting to think of.
I'd totally want to see that! I might lose my marbles, but what a sight...
Such an amazing read, as always! I love how you just pull us along at every turn -- always something I'm excited to see in my inbox.
I was thinking about how speculative/science fiction novels often talk about some big environmental event that marked a shift in humanity's approach to certain things (like climate, or water usage) and wondering if we're going to see some of those in our lifetimes, or if they exist in the realm of speculation. But I should have remembered about the mega floods!
The species whose footprints were found in Norfolk was a hominin thought to be Homo heidelbergensis, I think? Which was living in Europe at that time. I've wondered so often if there were hominins to witness one of these mega floods, but on the other hand why should the witnesses of other creatures be any less compelling?
I see some ragged writing right off the bat the heart attack left me with a black eye for instance. I did this with talk to text and I'm not that good at it yet and proofreading is really a strong with my eyesight right now
Love just flowing with your thoughts on this and imagining the scale of those mega-falls. That it's not just a Peter Jackson fantasy is mind-blowing. A real whiff of 'godly' perspective!
Wow so interesting and you make it fun to read
Awesome article -- I loved my visit to the Dover Cliffs a few years ago; didn’t know about that catastrophic history!