I don't know what each of these incidents mean. Perhaps they have no meaning, and I have every inclination to accept that at value. Big cosmos, mostly unavailable to our senses, or the mechanical extension of them. Big planet, same rules apply. Total knowledge will elude us, I imagine, forever - because we lack the capacity not only to record every moment, at every location, but also the context for understanding each and every event, how they relate, and perhaps as importantly, how they do not.
Nor do I know if each of these incidents have any connection, one to the other.
But, I do find them creepy:
"The mystery over thousands of birds raining from the sky in America deepened today after hundreds more plunged to their deaths in different parts of the country.
Scientists said that New Year’s Eve fireworks might have been to blame for the 3,000 blackbirds that died in a small town in Arkansas.
But they were forced to order more tests last night after 500 birds plummeted to the ground 360 miles away in Louisiana on Monday and dozens more died in Kentucky.
And just a 100 miles away from the Arkansas mass bird kill, at least 83,000 dead and dying fish washed ashore - possibly as many as 100,000."
"Four bumblebee species once common across North America have suffered precipitous—and so far mysterious—declines, a new study shows.
Within the past 20 years abundances of the bee species Bombus occidentalis, B. affinis, B. pensylvanicus,B. terricola have plummeted by up to 96 percent. (Related: "Mystery Bee Disappearances Sweeping U.S.")"
Source.
I do know that "fireworks" just doesn't ring true. I've seen birds scatter from fireworks dozens of times. I've never seen them fall from the sky in the thousands during or immediately after.
But, I know very little.
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Whatever the DoD's got cookin', it works. (If I have to assign blame, always a decent bet to err on the side of black budget projects, heh.)
Nothing like that's even remotely happened around here, but I can recall as a kid *always* seeing bats around town during the summer and now I rarely do. There are far fewer birds, blue jays are a completely rarity, & so on. A little bit of odd here & there & everywhere.
Randal,
I haven't seen a regular bee in almost two years. Our last garden year, two years ago, had us relying on bumblebees. I know less about flowers than my wife (I can grow chives, though...) but I remember her saying that there were a number of flowering plants she could no longer put in the ground or cultivate, because the bees weren't around to pollinate.
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When thousands of birds drop from the sky, I really want to put bad money on the DoD, too. Especically when the deaths start to cluster within a hundred or so mile area. But, it could be a magnetic effect, no? I hear there are island sized gaps in the magnetosphere, these days...
Respect,
Jack
Directly or not, man-made. But that's just my too-sense.
Word Verification: pigness
Ditto that, Davidly. Without any evidence, hunchy. Probably wrong, but it feels dirty good to assume that Uncle and his minions fucked up, somehow.
And that those would-be purveyors of secondary black-damage are the only ones with the knowledge to gather the evidence, while anyone else who wants to be taken seriously bends over backwards to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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