"Giant Squid caught in Australia!"

(Some writer titled another article about this: "Squid Pros Crow". Heh.)

I just LOVE information like this. It reminds me that - even in this age of instant communications and detailed scientific knowledge - there are still things out there to be discovered. Right on our own planet.

I like that. Too many times I feel like we've not only explored every nook and cranny of this blue marble we live on, but that we've shoe-horned ourselves into every single nook and cranny.

But there are still a few big, honking, juicy mysteries waiting to be solved. You can read some great info on giant squids from a research group that is studying them. But even with all we do know, it's pretty obvious that there's tons we don't know. On a very basic level. That just gives me excited shivers.

No really. I think that's why I find the upper atmospheric phenomenon of "red sprites", and "blue jets" so fascinating. You can see them. They're big, and yet we didn't know about them. This isn't some discovery of the exact chemical bond between some molecules I can't pronounce and barely conceptualize. I absolutely love research, but at that level - even though it's extremely important - it just doesn't hold my attention.

It's probably because I'm the kind of person who like to get a new project started, work on all the big parts of it, and then kinda give up on the details. :-) I swear, the details always get me. The big broad picture grabs me and holds my attention. Details leave me squirming.

So finding out that we just don't know some of the most basic kinds of information about creatures like these just gets me all excited to learn more. It's the same thing that makes me I wish I could just DRAIN the damn Loch Ness to find out once and for all if there's anything in there! When I was a teen I was estatic to find out that we've discovered something that was supposedly extinct a few million years ago - the coelacanth.

I really wish I could get a better look above the clouds, or look into the deep canyons of our oceans. What ELSE is down there that we've never or rarely have seen before? I want to see 'em LIVE and floating around. I want to fly to the tops of the clouds during a thuirderstorm and see the red sprites dance across them.

*sigh*

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