{"id":22835,"date":"2023-03-21T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=22835"},"modified":"2023-03-21T16:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:49:25","slug":"21mar2023-microscopic-images-snail-munching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/21\/21mar2023-microscopic-images-snail-munching\/","title":{"rendered":"21MAR2023 &#8211; Microscopic Images &#8211; Snail Munching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago I kept snails as pets.\u00a0 I remember how creepy it was listening to them munching egg shells that I gave them to help grow their shells quicker.\u00a0 They are weird and interesting critters.\u00a0 I once started a science fiction story where a geneticist combined the brains and tentacles of a cephalopod with the body of a giant African snail to produce a sentient creature that survives a thermonuclear war and becomes a threat to the surviving humans.\u00a0 But I got bored with the story and never finished it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">snail enjoying some lettuce <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qzH6E7klB1\">pic.twitter.com\/qzH6E7klB1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; microscopic images. 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