Yes, this was a stupid headline, but no, it wasn't the stupid headline I was talking about. First I want to rant about Apple news and the cheap click bait tactics they use to try and make you subscribe to Apple news so you can waste time reading articles that are a waste of time because they don't deliver what they promise (like what's it like to only retire with $2 million). Just about everything you click on says you can't read it unless you subscribe to Apple News. So I am pretty much convinced I will never subscribe to Apple News and I will never know why so many Millennials are not having anything to do with their parents.
But for some reason, every now and then, you click on a stupid headline and they let you read the article. Like today I read an article about a construction project at a college campus in Tennessee where they uncovered a former trench dug in the Civil War and found...get this...bottles and trash left by Civil War soldiers. And the major find was a mini ball that the article explains is the type of bullet that was used during the Civil War. And I am talking about a single friggin' mini ball. The line though that put me over the edge in the article was that the archeology students digging at the site found evidence that the soldiers had built a fire and they conjectured that they built a fire to get warm.
I'm not making this up.
Then I clicked on a headline that read "Tiny ape like humanoid may still be living in plain sight, scientist says." This is one, singular scientist that thinks Homo floresiensis, an extinct species of small archaic humas that lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, about 50,000 years ago may still be on the island. These creatures have been nicknamed "hobbits" because they were short and had small brains (sorry Bilbo Baggins). They were about 3.5 feet tall and weighed about 55 pounds. And even though they had brains about a third of the size of the average modern human brain, they could use tools (I think some of these worked on the remodeling project we finally wrapped up a few months ago). The thing is, the one scientist who is retired and I can't recall his name, thinks they may still be hanging out on the island without anyone noticing them the same way Bigfoot hangs out in the forests of Washington. Here's my theory of why the scientist thinks they may still exist:
I think Danny DeVito was vacationing in Indonesia. I hear he may have built a fire in a cave, too. And it was probably because he was cold.
My Journalism degree is finally paying off.
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