n 1806 the HMS Victory saw another light in its path in the deep fog.
They tried to warn the other vessel: Other vessel, divert your course 15 degrees.
The other vessel replied: You need to divert your course 15 degrees to avoid a collision.
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Ocean Currents
Back in Rochester, once on the way home from work, I asked Gaylene if anything interesting had happened at work that day. She said well, she heard there was another floaties sighting.
I said "What??
"Oh you didn’t hear of the bath floaties?"
Obviously I had not.
If you are not familiar with the story, I will summarize what she told me:
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The Horseshoe Crab
Are you familiar with the Horseshoe crab?
Did you know that their blood is blue? Humans have red blood since our blood is based on iron, but the Horseshoe crab’s blood is based on copper, so it is more like baby blue.
Did you know that most of us have a minute quantity of their blood inside of us?
Backing up the story…..
