Good evening. Welcome to the final edition of Carnacki’s Chiller Theater.
It’s been a pleasure chilling and thrilling you each week.
But alas, all good things, and bad things too, must come to an end.
So join me one last time for Chills and Thrills
Chills to cave bear’s DNA being sequenced.. Next up: cloning ferocious animals that love to eat people. Where’s my club?
Thrills to wolves. Wolves are teaching scientists a lesson on global warming. The children of the night, what sweet music they make.
Chills to nuclear waste. Terror to last humanity’s life time.
Thrills or Chills to the U.S. return to the Moon. Love the idea, but when my family is broke, we don’t take long trips.
Thrills to BooMan for frontpaging this feature in the past. I appreciate it more than I’ve probably said. Unfortunately, I found I have overextended my blogging and this feature, though entertaining, may not be the most suitable for a serious political blog. (Though always feel free to visit mine for similar stories.)
Oh, it’s GBCW for this feature. I’m not going anywhere. đŸ™‚
It’s a tall order to follow you with a comment. But I have certainly enjoyed reading these diaries.
Chills also to knowing the sex of the huge critter that ate you.
Thrills (I guess) for liberalization of the media – I doubt you will see it here in the US any time soon, though:
Thrills for just having booked tickets for summer vacation to Norway for kids, gf and myself.
Thanks Ask. I’ve enjoyed doing them.
Norway sounds great.
And can we look forward to a report of chills and thrills from Norway, with pictures? Just ask–ing. <yuck, yuck, sorry about that>
Maybe I’ll take you up on that. We’ll do a bit of touristy things for the benefit of curly (though she has been there before). A 4-day trip over the mountains to the fjords on the west-coast + Bergen. But most of the time in the Oslo-area and the family summer house on the south-coast.
Please do. Pictures and an account of some Norwegian activities, I mean. Sirocco has posted a couple of pictures in past, and it looks like a beautiful place.
No doubt.
Here’s a link to the page from where I booked my trip. Check the link to ‘picture galleries’.
National Geographic Traveler ranked the Norwegian Fjords as the number one travel destination among 115 globally (could not get to the article at National Geographic without a subscription).
Is that where you booked your trip?
I have been looking at the small trips through Smithsonian….we’ll be retiring in a few years and are looking for alternative travel groups.
Beautiful pictures…enjoy your trip!
Well, what can I say!
My mother came from Sognefjord (the biggest and ‘baddest’ of them all). I spent every summer as a kid there. And spent almost 5 years in Bergen as a university student.
The nature will never let you down there, though the climate may not always cooperate (but as we say in Norway – there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing).
Yes, I spoke with a nice lady there yesterday – after having sent a preliminary booking to check availability through the web-site the day before. We’ll be there the last week of July.
Incredible nature, indeed. And gorgeous.
We have a smaller fjord here, Somes Sound, that looks a bit like that last, big picture. The navigational chart for it in in this page.
The steep walls dropping away into deep water are also like the Labrador coast. Twenty feet away from the shore, and you can be in 200 feet of water.
Many say so. That the Maine coast is similar to Norwegian coastline.
Likewise for Washington and British Columbia.
Unfortunately, I have never made it to any of those places.
Bar Harbor, ME was fabulous in the fall, but nothing as vibrant as the pictures above.
Carnacki. . .you’re still the best!
Is this some knee-jerk reaction to all things “molecular biology”? Sequencing the genome of a species really only provides information. Information like what other species it is related to, and more importantly: the evolution of this species. It does not mean that the big, bad genetic engineers can now make hybrid species in their evil little test tubes.
For example, the sequencing of the genomes of mice, C. elegans (a worm), Arabidopsis (a plant), and other so called “model organisms” has given the scientific community much valuable information on a wide variety of topics. The sequencing of the human genome will undoubtedly yield great gains in treatment and cure of a multitude of diseases. The payoffs are already starting to roll in.
This is very exciting, if their techniques works well, then DNA from hominid species (man’s ancient ancestors) could possibly be sequenced, ending the false debate of evolution law vs. creationism mythology.
Dont diss the molecular biologists. Yeah, they do “gentetic engineering” (some anyway), but it is 99.999% for good, and besides, just about all of them vote Democrat. All of the ones I’ve spoken to anyway.
It was actually humor…taking it to the extreme of the sequencing leading to cloning of cave bears leading them to eating us again…
Otherwise, Thrills to microbiologists and scientists.
I am sorry I reacted in a knee-jerk fashion.
On another note, why end the series?
I’m blogging too much. Though you can’t tell from today’s, sometimes putting this together actually took time and I’ve got to cut back from somewhere.
Oh yeah, I guess I should have mentioned, in the interest of full disclosure, that I am a molecular biologist. And yes, I do things in the lab known as “genetic engineering” of plants, the purpose of which is not to rip anyone off (cough, cough Monsanto), or even to make money.
Sorry for the above rant… it just hit a little too close to home. I know all too well about the perceptions people hold of my profession, and I do what I can to educate the holders of said perceptions, so that they may know the truth rather than spout the latest ELF gibberish. (I am not implying that Carnacki is spouting ELF gibberish.)
you’re obviously growing cavebears in your basement!!
Awww geez – don’t go away – just post less often…
These diaries are always interesting and the Chills and Thrills are always unique. Thanks for writing them and all the time it has taken over the past few months.
Periodically post one to keep us on our toes! In keeping with the theme though just keep us in suspense as to when you are going to post! ;^)
How ’bout it, Carnacki? Once a month, once every blue moon, or something.
That kind of would be in the tradition of GBCW diaries to return from the great beyond…we’ll see.
really carnacki, i must say that this is perhaps my favorite ongoing series here…it’s like C&J, but thankfully not like C&J.
I don’t think anyone would fault you for posting less, but we’d sure be sad if this feature disappeared altogether. If you need help, I’d be glad to share the load. Look:
Chills to Satan!
Thrills to notSatan!
C’mon, it doesn’t get better than that. I’ve got a million of ’em.
Yes, the intermittent chiller theater. It could work.