treehugger
12-01-2006, 01:47 AM
Are we allowed to make a second attempt at writing an article? I'm going to go ahead anyway. [edit] the pictures have arrived!
[edit again] and now some have left!
Scientists in Antarctica have recently made a shocking discovery as to the nature of the reason why biological material exists on this planet. In other, more inteligible words, the meaning of life. Last Thursday, an expedition leader stumbled across a lump in the ice layer, much like the man in California found the pebble of gold that started the gold rush. It was an inconspicuous obstacle, barely six inches high, but the man, who prefers to remain anonymous, decided it was unusual enough to investigate further. He called his team of thirty to a halt, and requested anyone with an ice pick, shovel, or other digging tool to come help dig the mysterious object up. It was stuck fast. Eventually, after much labor, the man was able to pick up the object and get a closer look. It was a box. A metal box, much like those old-fashioned lunch boxes, except without a cartoon character or superhero on the front. He opened it up. All that was inside was a tiny slip of paper. It read:
Eat the pie.
This was, needless to say, rather curious, as there was no pie in the box. It was getting late, so the expedition leader called it a day and led the group back to camp. Laying in his bunk that night, he contemplated what the box and the note might mean, but to no avail. The next morning, he showed it to his fellow scientists, and they also had no idea of what to make of it. He decided to forget about it, dismissed it as a lost cause, and went about his daily business for about two weeks.
One day, on the first of June, which was rather cold as all this took place in Antactica, a tiny white round thing fell from the sky. It seemed to be a snowflake, but it is too cold to snow in Antarctica. It fell right onto the spot where the box was found two weeks earlier. When the group, led by the same expedition leader, came upon the spot, a curious thing happened. Tiny green specks were floating around, seeming to be lost, if tiny green specks can at all convey emotion. The leader scooped them up in a plastic bag, put them in his pocket, and continued on his way. When they got back to base, he took the specks out of his pocket and put them under a microscope to get a closer look. What he saw was even more shocking than what was in the box. He saw:
Little Green Men!
http://www.littlegreenmenmusic.com/img/btn_lgm_home.gif
One Little Green Man, or LGM, stood up and looked up into the lens of the microscope. He shouted in a high-pitched voice:
"Where's the pie?"
The leader, whom it really would be easier to call by his real name George, ran and got the box, which had lain neglected on the table for two weeks, and opened it up. He gave it to the LGM, without knowing why. He just had a gut feeling that this was what he must do. The LGM took the box impatiently, and climbed inside. He sat down next to the note, which in case you forgot, read:
Eat the pie.
He sat there for a few minutes, and George wondered what he was doing. So he took the microscope and focused in on the LGM. He found, in the hands of the curious verdant stranger,
a miniscule cherry pie!
The LGM finished his pie, climbed out of the box, went back into his "snowflake", and flew away into the sky, not to be seen by George again.
http://www.dreamstime.com/snowflake-thumb243182
And this is the meaning of life.
[edit again] and now some have left!
Scientists in Antarctica have recently made a shocking discovery as to the nature of the reason why biological material exists on this planet. In other, more inteligible words, the meaning of life. Last Thursday, an expedition leader stumbled across a lump in the ice layer, much like the man in California found the pebble of gold that started the gold rush. It was an inconspicuous obstacle, barely six inches high, but the man, who prefers to remain anonymous, decided it was unusual enough to investigate further. He called his team of thirty to a halt, and requested anyone with an ice pick, shovel, or other digging tool to come help dig the mysterious object up. It was stuck fast. Eventually, after much labor, the man was able to pick up the object and get a closer look. It was a box. A metal box, much like those old-fashioned lunch boxes, except without a cartoon character or superhero on the front. He opened it up. All that was inside was a tiny slip of paper. It read:
Eat the pie.
This was, needless to say, rather curious, as there was no pie in the box. It was getting late, so the expedition leader called it a day and led the group back to camp. Laying in his bunk that night, he contemplated what the box and the note might mean, but to no avail. The next morning, he showed it to his fellow scientists, and they also had no idea of what to make of it. He decided to forget about it, dismissed it as a lost cause, and went about his daily business for about two weeks.
One day, on the first of June, which was rather cold as all this took place in Antactica, a tiny white round thing fell from the sky. It seemed to be a snowflake, but it is too cold to snow in Antarctica. It fell right onto the spot where the box was found two weeks earlier. When the group, led by the same expedition leader, came upon the spot, a curious thing happened. Tiny green specks were floating around, seeming to be lost, if tiny green specks can at all convey emotion. The leader scooped them up in a plastic bag, put them in his pocket, and continued on his way. When they got back to base, he took the specks out of his pocket and put them under a microscope to get a closer look. What he saw was even more shocking than what was in the box. He saw:
Little Green Men!
http://www.littlegreenmenmusic.com/img/btn_lgm_home.gif
One Little Green Man, or LGM, stood up and looked up into the lens of the microscope. He shouted in a high-pitched voice:
"Where's the pie?"
The leader, whom it really would be easier to call by his real name George, ran and got the box, which had lain neglected on the table for two weeks, and opened it up. He gave it to the LGM, without knowing why. He just had a gut feeling that this was what he must do. The LGM took the box impatiently, and climbed inside. He sat down next to the note, which in case you forgot, read:
Eat the pie.
He sat there for a few minutes, and George wondered what he was doing. So he took the microscope and focused in on the LGM. He found, in the hands of the curious verdant stranger,
a miniscule cherry pie!
The LGM finished his pie, climbed out of the box, went back into his "snowflake", and flew away into the sky, not to be seen by George again.
http://www.dreamstime.com/snowflake-thumb243182
And this is the meaning of life.