Thursday, July 9, 2009

white rocks and the alien invasion

i don't mess around with dog safety, so proton gets strapped in just like everybody else. please avert your eyes from the larson chin.

today some friends took me to White Rocks, a scenic overlook a 15 minute drive from Rutland. as most scenery in vermont, it was pretty outstanding. a short hike up and all of a sudden you're looking out over an insane view of trees and mountains and wow. i'm already super excited to see the view in the fall.

slightly more interesting would be the thousands of alien pods we saw on the hike down. i'm not sure how i missed them on the way up. probably some sort of alien mind trickery. my friend brandi chose to take the she-ra route down, which meant my falling and tripping numerous times, but those close calls also brought me face-to-face with the pulsating alien embryos disguising themselves as common moss. i dared not touch them with my bare human hands, but i did manage to capture their existence on film. no telling how long exactly they have been laying dormant. or when they will hatch. from my calculations, i'm guessing they'll hatch somewhere around october 14.... around 3:15 p.m. how might i know that? i'll tell you.

upon closer inspection of the photo i took, i noticed a peculiar organism peaking out from behind one of the pods. obviously, it's difficult to
determine whether the pod the creature is next to is the one it hatched from using a photograph, but visiting the site again may lend some light on the issue. regardless, based on the size of the organism in the photo, previous data gathered on the organism (see Aliens), the ratio of living creatures: unhatched, the unseasonal amount of rain Vermont has been receiving, and the chlorophyll content of surrounding conifers, it's obvious to any junior scientist that the pods will hatch october 14. and 3:15 p.m. is right when kids get out of school, giving the newly hatched alien empire plenty to nibble on.

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