12 Days of JOURNOS, Day Seven: Nature, ah, Finds a Way

On the Seventh Day of JOURNOS, fish rain down from the heavens into Texarkana, Texas. A Biblical tale rendered unto the news by a blessed waterspout, and a fitting end to a year of nature's oddities. 

As the fishy heavens open up, we open an umbrella and do some updates to our episode on space, sea, and desert. Even though I reported on the issues with solar-energy development in the Mojave Desert, the Biden administration still opened up more desert land to those panel-lovin' freaks. The news covered the politics of the Joes Biden and Manchin, and Build Back Better, but didn't say much about the desert tortoises.

From there, straight into space, where China is all mad at Elon about his doggone satellites getting in the way of all the other junk & stuff up there. Elon's response? Space is, like, big, y'all.

Then we come back to Earth and plunge deep beneath the ocean so Stephen can get off on his precious nodules again. The New Yorker MUST have picked up on our last story, 'cause it followed up with its own take on the tale of polymetallic nodules on the ocean floor which are basically beautiful Easter eggs full of iPhone materials, apparently.

Is there anything down there other than stuff we might like? And will Nature put up with us poking around the Earth's nethers? Those are the questions of the year, and what we'll keep on thinking about into 2022, which based on current omens of fish and other afflictions will be ... eventful.

Auld Lang Syne-ing off! (Until Day Eight.)