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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Dec 19, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2EF5262B01524BEA70000F04838F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > On Dec 16, 2025, James Nicoll wrote   
   > (in article <10hsb5t$m9b$1@panix2.panix.com>):   
   >   
   > > Five Books About Conversing With Animals   
   > >   
   > > How great would it be to talk with animals, through magic or technology or   
   > > whatever?   
   > >   
   > > https://reactormag.com/five-books-about-conversing-with-animals/   
   >   
   > I have some ideas about possibly decoding cetacean acoustics   
   > using geophysical signal processing techniques.   
   >   
   > Also, in my current (I will try again tomorrow night at the   
   > exact time of new/dark moon) global new age onset   
   > magickal workings, there will be sudden magickal   
   > physical evolution, including of current adults.   
   >   
   > Who and what will evolve? Currently pathogenic viruses,   
   > currently pathogenic bacteria, homo sapiens+720 aliens,   
   > cetaceans, non-human simians, dogs, cats, non-simian   
   > primates, elephants, the rest of mammals, corvids,   
   > psittacines, octopi, and   
   > Chinese dragons/sea serpents/lake serpents (if they exist).   
      
   oops, I forgot giant squid and colossal squid   
      
   > Of relevance to this thread, all of the multi-cellular   
   > DNA-based species that will evolve will get two   
   > language genes---one currently held by   
   > homo sapiens+720 aliens and one currently held   
   > by cetaceans.   
   >   
   > Of course if this fails again as usual, you can look   
   > at this as speculative fiction. :-)   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “Early morning, jubilators, up to no good, instigators... Sons of long   
   forgotten races, that the darkest night embraces” (Ron Hynes & D.O’D)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)