Monday, January 23, 2012

Listen Up...or Down



This is God's wondrous world

and to my listening ears

all nature rings and round me rings


the music of the spheres


This is the revised first verse of a traditional hymn, and one of my favourites. Apparently it's not a favourite of the US Navy. There is a listening project underway out here on the Left Coast, an eight hundred kilometre "necklace" on the sea floor with sensitive equipment used to pick up the sounds of the sea, everything from whales, to ships, to drilling equipment. That's where the military comes in. Tracking these sounds will include what are perceived as sensitive military operations, so the navy just doesn't like what is unfolding.


Of course we know the world is all about the needs of the military. Take a listen to some of the underwater soundtracks offered up on the BBC website. I figure God delights in the sounds of the whales and doesn't have a lot of time for the cloak and dagger concerns of the navy.



Thoughts?

4 comments:

IanD said...

Much ado about nothing? (Then again, I'm not privvy to millitary secrets ...)

IanD said...

*privy*

Why do they let me type/think before 9:00a.m. ... ?

Laurie said...

Caffeine is needed before typing/thinking!

David Mundy said...

In the morning go to the privy, consume caffeine, read the blog, then visit the privy again to deal with the caffeine.