Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Dirt Balls


What happens when two black holes run into each other. Infinite gravity plus infinite gravity equals infinite gravity. But that does not follow the theory of the conservation of mass. Mass plus Mass has to equal Double Mass.

This question burned through my mind for days. I scouted for answers, I found none, I went onto chat boards and emailed Astrophysicists. I never got a clear answer.

This is who I am. If I don't know something, I become compulsive until I find the answer. It's also what makes me rock at Trivial Pursuit...I know lots of trivial facts about trivial things.

Did you know that 96% of the time (they tested this!) a mother will know her own baby their cry...even if she's never even heard it before! Just born, play baby switcheroo and mom knows. Weird.

Sometimes mud dobbers will incase caterpillars in mud, stuck to your house, so they can come back later and eat it. It's like a little insect pantry. The poor caterpillar is alive the whole time, just waiting to be eaten, it could be days in that coffin.

Snails mate sexually. They get together and stick their little snail penises into female snails, mind boggling. I figured there would be ex vivo eggs involved or something.

Colic is actually caused by the brain being awake and asleep at the same time. Interesting but not helpful when you plead with your newborn to stop screaming like their being murdered.

Ants lack the neurons for pain. Burn them with a magnifying glass all you want.

Anyway. My compulsion makes me weird. Hopefully my kids will love me for it. Today I found clumps of dirts, more like little balls of dirt. I spent over 3 hours researching what they were and where they came from. I spoke to 6 different people who were PhD's in Entomology and Horticulture and Botany. One professor told me to consult my local college because he didn't have time to answer my emails anymore. No one can tell me what they are and it's keeping me up tonight.
One prof. told me he thought they were killer wasp burrow holes. I went out with a flash light and dug one up, no wasp down there.

Anyone know what these are? My kids sure wish you do. They were sent outside without mom to play with while I poured through pictures and internet sites most of the afternoon. Excellent way to spend my time seeing as how the movers/packers are coming in 5 days.

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