Today’s WordPress Daily Prompt challenge suggests bloggers come up with a list. Okay, then, since we do that every day, let’s look at the latest news!
The Times Of India reports that red wood ants, that build their colonies along fault lines in Germany, can sense earthquakes one full day in advance, a record for animals!
3 Worse Places To Try To Raise Your Family Full Of Ants Than On A Fault Line
1. Ant traps located on a fault line in Germany. These ants can sense earthquakes! Why would anyone put an ant trap right on the fault line? Especially when the traps are going to keep falling off the fault line, every time there’s an earthquake!
2. Spider traps on a fault line in Germany. First, the good news, ants. They’ll be fewer of your natural predator walking around the fault line, so you can get down to your earthquake-sensing business. Now the bad news: if there is an earthquake, you may get tossed into a trap of angry, hungrier, spiders!
3. The Ant Hotel in Aksaray, Turkey. “This real hotel is ranked #1 of all hotels in Aksaray on Trip Advisor!” your ant travel agent might tell you. But as much as the name might inspire real ants to plan a family vacation away from the fault line here, we suspect hotels may create even more ant-stress than a fault line. Might we suggest a family holiday to a tasty maple-syrup filled IHOP dumpster instead?
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Of course I like the lists. Almost as much as I don’t like Daily Prompts 🙂
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Our investment in a blog called DailyPromptOfX suddenly seems ill-thought!
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This is really great.I like that it is quite thtughoful and profound but with a very light and accessible feeling to it. A very deep thought that isn’t bogged down by philosophical statements.I especially like (I don’t know if this was intentional but I feel like it must have been and the author should pretend it was if not ) but the last line brings to mind Remembrance day and the poem Flanders Fields ( lest we forget ) and to someone who is familiar with that part of Canadian History it brings a lot to mind without having to say much! Good writing I miss you all!
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Hi FredWith or without PSE&G snnsporiog the luncheon those lines will be built. They will be built with or without approvals from the BPU as well. PSE&G has skipped the local municipal process because, rightly so, it is useless. How many elected officials would take an objective look at the real issues knowing many voters are upset. The idea of conducting informational meetings in all towns affected is fine. It is also always good form to listen to concerns and address issues presented. Again, to think that any town would publicly endorse this project is pure nonsense. Now while the BPU is being represented as the approval entity the reality is they to could very easily by bypassed and over ruled by the federal agencies. So this brings me to the nagging question in Montville Township as I sit as a township Committee member. Why don’t towns focus on the safety concerns and clear cutting issues? Even PSE&G has stated they are willing to take EMF measurements to bench line EMF on the existing 230KV line. Of course my 2 cent opinion is our BPU should mandate these measurements for all towns and force PSE&G to document the test equipment and methods used as well as taking those measurements in the summer months when usage is at its highest. The reality is that the possibility does exist the EMF levels could be lower with the new transmission line because some of the EMF would cancel out since two transmission lines will be operating on the same towers.Art Daughtry
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