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Wednesday 9 November 2011

The Woolly Caterpillar Enigma Part 2.

Wednesday 11:43 a.m.
                                   The woolly caterpillar was on a David Attenborough show. It lives in the Antarctic, I think. When it gets cold, the woolly caterpillar wriggles under a stone and when it gets really cold, it stops breathing. Then its intestines freeze, and then it freezes completely.
                                    Were you to pick up the woolly moth at this point, it would show no signs of life. It is, to all intents and purposes, dead. It is a dead caterpillar. Deceased. It has joined the heavenly choir of caterpillars. It is frozen solid.
                                     When the sun begins to shine again and the caterpillar warms up, it springs to life and goes wriggling about its business till it gets cold again, and it goes through this process fourteen times before it becomes a moth.
                                      There has to be something we don't know about operating here, Jack. What is making the difference between the caterpillar being alive and being dead?
                                       Some yogis are supposed to be able to stop breathing and such, using winds and channels and whatnot,  and they are supposed to be not dead either. Hmmm?
                                       Of course, the caterpillar wraps itself in a cocoon at one point and comes out as a moth, which is just ridiculous.

2 comments:

rob said...

It could be useful to find a way to stifle the wind channel for a while.

PS we'll all turn into maggots eventually.

Hotboy said...

Albert? Surely someone will miss you before that! Hotboy