[8:04 AM] Mr. Silver:
Downgraded to the "pretty good dying"
60000 years...
60000 years is a geological blip.
At the same time, 60000 years is a biological period so vast that multiple fully advanced civilizations could have risen and fallen and never even noticed anything unusual was going on.
Aliens in the future - or whatever thing rises to civilization after us - are going to dig in the fossil record and try to understand how earth was destroyed in a “single brief garbage meteor event”.
(Insectoid science show host in front of map, pointing out locations of major cities) "In just a few years the impact points went from a few to thousands. The humanosaurs were killed in the billions by falling debris."
"What alien race would do such a thing to such a planet as ours so many millions of years ago may never be known."
"However tragic the planetary devastation was, we must in a way be grateful, as the vast wealth in fossil materials from these middens fueled the rise of modern civilization."
[8:21 AM] Mr. Blue:
Heheh
[11:02 AM] Mr. Silver:
So I don't watch CSI...but I saw a "CSI stars glammed up" photo gallery. As the example pic appealed to my sense of historical style, I assumed it would be period pics and opened it up.
Conclusion: "Pauley" is the only person people really care to see glammed up.
Pauley Pauley Pauley Pauley Pauley...main guy main guy...Pauley Pauley Pauley Pauley...some blonde...Pauley Pauley Pauley Pauley...
[11:10 AM] Mr. Blue:
Never watched it
She seems popular because of her 90s goth style, which she seems to kind of do on her own and isn't part of her character?
[11:11 AM] Ms. Rose:
My mom loves that show.
Like, all of them.
"Which one is this?"
She rattles off something like "CSI Special Victims Miami Suburbs Limited to Winter Without the Guy Who Died on the Other Show."
[11:15 AM] Mr. Silver:
I love that version
[1:58 PM] Mr. Blue:
I'm going to the Grand Canyon this weekend. Also Monument Valley
[1:58 PM] Ms. Rose:
Cool!
[2:01 PM] Mr. Silver:
Nice
The Pretty Good Canyon
[2:03 PM] Mr. Blue:
When are they gonna fill that sucker in?
[2:10 PM] Ms. Rose:
I loved The Pretty Good Canyon. The drive up is awesome. Unfortunately I also got married that week.
[2:11 PM] Mr. Silver:
Your mistake was missing out on “the accident" opportunity.
[2:17 PM] Mr. Blue:
The one thing i'm most looking forward to is finding an In & Out Burger.
[2:17 PM] Ms. Rose:
Aside from it being with him and his stupid family, I really did love the drive out west. Driving through the Rockies is something everyone needs to do. There is no picture or video that can do it justice. I felt so small and was so overwhelmed that I cried happy tears.
[2:17 PM] Mr. Blue:
It was a big deal to me to see a snow-capped mountain
[2:17 PM] Ms. Rose:
Yeah!
[2:17 PM] Mr. Blue:
The first one was Pikes Peak
I was young and couldn't fathom snow in the summer
[2:18 PM] Ms. Rose:
We did Pikes, too. I was like, "Oh, it really is like in the Gran Turismo game!"
[2:18 PM] Mr. Blue:
Heh
[2:18 PM] Mr. Silver:
I've only seen the Rockies from a distance. Even that was memorable.
The horizon as a wall
[2:18 PM] Mr. Blue:
The Grand Tetons were cool too
[2:19 PM] Ms. Rose:
Even just the vast flatness and nothingness of Nebraska and Wyoming was astounding. And OMG, the first time we saw a real tumbleweed! They are NOT as soft as they look. It's like tree branches knotted together and will take out your car!
Dinosaur National Park was cool.
[2:19 PM] Mr. Blue:
The sky seemed different in Montana, like it was bigger or closer
[2:20 PM] Mr. Silver:
Thus...Big Sky Country
[2:20 PM] Mr. Blue:
Yep
[2:20 PM] Ms. Rose:
I never made it to Montana or the Dakotas to see Rushmore and stuff. We went straight West across the middle.
Wyoming was kind of scary, honestly. Better pray nothing happens because you are MILES away from civilization.
[2:20 PM] Mr. Blue:
A very underrated area is the Sand Hills of Nebraska
Maybe not for "things to do" but in terms of driving scenery
[2:21 PM] Mr. Silver:
Meanwhile, Kansas and Missouri...exists...
Kansas forest! 3 small trees and some scrub!
[2:22 PM] Ms. Rose:
Hahaha
[2:22 PM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
They designate a lot of things as "national forests" with trees no taller than me.
[2:22 PM] Mr. Silver:
The trees are probably only there because some pioneer stopped there to poop going anywhere else
[2:22 PM] Ms. Rose:
There's the Corn Palace in Nebraska, too. We happened to be driving through when they were crowning the annual Corn Princess. I was kind of jelly...
[2:22 PM] Mr. Blue:
I've been to the Corn Palace in South Dakota twice
Mitchell! South Dakota
[2:23 PM] Ms. Rose:
Oh, there's another one?! So it wasn't THE Corn Palace? I feel so gypped.
[2:23 PM] Mr. Blue:
[2:24 PM] Ms. Rose:
LIARS! Commonly advertised as The World's Only Corn Palace
[2:24 PM] Mr. Silver:
"The War of the Corn went on for 30 years. Both palaces were besieged at least twice"
Fought between rival houses of the Cornplantagenets – House of Husk. House of Butter&Sugar
[2:25 PM] Mr. Blue:
Sacked by the Hussites in 1939. Or maybe Cossacks...looks more Russian
Segue into the nationalist movements of the 20th century - blood and kernel ideologies
Check the 1907 picture of the corn palace
"What symbol should we put on the palace?"
"How about a swastika?"
"Good idea. Nobody will ever mess up that symbolism."
[2:31 PM] Ms. Rose:
LOL
If you Google "corn palace nebraska" nothing but the SD one comes up. I know I'm not hallucinating! Maybe theirs was just a Corn Mansion or Corn Castle. lol
[2:27 PM] Mr. Silver:
Yours was “The Corn Place". One significant letter different.
[2:27 PM] Ms. Rose:
(rofl)
Maybe his family roofied me and just said we saw a Corn Palace/Corn Queen in Nebraska...
I have pictures...I think.
That's big Mormon fun right there.
“Let's drug the not-pregnant one and make her think she spent the day at a Corn Palace!”
I'm really starting to second-guess my memory. I'll have to dig up the pictures at my parents' house. I can find nothing online about the corn place in Nebraska.
[2:38 PM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah. Because it doesn't exist.
[2:38 PM] Ms. Rose:
WTF?
But I swear I haven't been to SD! During that trip, I made certain to mail a postcard home from every state, since I collect them.
I still don't have a SD postcard.
[8:49 AM] Mr. Blue:
Oh boy, here we go
[8:53 AM] Mr. Silver:
Here we go what?
[8:54 AM] Mr. Blue:
Big Orange tangent
Wolves and bears dragging people into the woods in Minnesota and Afghanistan
[8:56 AM] Mr. Silver:
...
Considering how rare wolf and bear attacks against humans are in general, and that they are in-situ eaters regardless...
[8:59 AM] Mr. Blue:
Yes
All these dudes think the same BS
Spike was the same
[8:59 AM] Mr. Silver:
In fact the only critters that come to mind that "drag off" prey are crocodilians and some of the medium-sized big cats...
[8:59 AM] Mr. Blue:
Chemtrails, government taking our guns, wolves and bears are eating us, sharia law
[9:01 AM] Mr. Silver:
More likely Bigfoots than bears
(Bear and wolf being interviewed) "Who has the time?"
[9:02 AM] Mr. Blue:
Like I said about medieval Europe wolf attacks... it's probably more likely that people were dying of other causes and wolves were just scavenging
But you find a dead body with bite marks and people assume automatically a wolf killed 'em. Which might be true in some cases but certainly not all
[9:03 AM] Mr. Silver:
I wonder...
Walking upright
Was it a secondary, or even primary defense mechanism?
I mean, the benefits of free limbs for other tasks is enormous, no doubt.
But considering rearing up on the hind legs is a threatening posture in animals...
We're in a threatening posture to animals almost every encounter.
(Anthropologist brain now tempted to search hominid postures all day)
[9:09 AM] Mr. Blue:
That's true about upright posture
Also different animals perceive different things as threats.
Like big cats - you want to make eye contact.
Dogs/bears - you do not.
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