Think Draw - Picture - Extraterrestrials confer ex cathedra

Title: Extraterrestrials confer ex cathedra
created on 01 May 20

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1. chelydra wrote: There wasn't room in the title slot to explain the whole situations. Basically the cardinals in Saturns's religious hierarchy are pachyderms, like the Hindu Ganesh (but more red than blue)...
2. chelydra wrote: are conferring together in their cathedral, discussing the progress of the plague their agents sent to Earth a few months ago...
3. chelydra wrote: (Grammatical glitch because I'm too distracted to think straight at the moment)...
4. chelydra wrote: They had been targeting their ancient enemies the pangolins (exiled from Saturn 1344 Saturn-years ago for incorrigible recidivism and crimes too scandalous to speak of here), but...
5. chelydra wrote: instead of exterminating the sinful and abhorrent pangolins, the virus (concocted in a lab on Titan, btw) jumped over to threaten the dear sweet innocent human race that had done such a lovely job...
6. chelydra wrote: ...of transforming their dark, wet, dreadful planet from a chaos of forests and filthy wild things into an orderly, efficient and delightful world...
7. chelydra wrote: ..and now the Saturnine elders, profoundly remorseful for their miscalculations that are now endangering the only decent worthwhile species on Earth, wonder if there's anything they can do now to make amends...
8. chelydra wrote: ...but what can they do? We must wait and see. We'll find out when it happens.
9. chelydra wrote: And if you have a hard time seeing these cardinals, think of those pointy-headed mammoths of yore, with funny little tufts of dark hair sprouting atop the point...
10. chelydra wrote: But their vestments so elaborate, and their sacred tattoos so ornate, it's kind of hard to see the creatures hidden underneath.
11. chelydra wrote: There are two of them, having a tete a tete, face to face, inhaling deeply of each other's scent, pheromones, and exhalations.
12. chelydra wrote: You know how African elephants have huge ears to help them radiate body heat? And mammoths from the ice age had tiny ears conserve their body heat? Well Saturn is so chilly these guys have no ears at all!
13. chelydra wrote: That way they don't have to listen to each other's long boring rambles about whatever nonsense enters their pointy heads. They talk endlessly, and free to interrupt, raise their awesome booming voices to top volume for emphasis, etc etc.
14. chelydra wrote: (ARE free to)
15. chelydra wrote: Because no one is listening, no one minds. Any actual communication is done by smellâ€”producing and transmitting smells, catching and savoring smells. Like all elephants, these folks smell delicious.
16. chelydra wrote: In chat-box #2, as you probably noticed before I did, conferring "in" their cathedral isn't quite correct. EX cathedra presumably means outside of, or from, the cathedral...
17. chelydra wrote: ...and, as you can see, they're nuzzling foreheads and entwining trucks in an alcove in one of the walkways just outside the cathedral's side door.
18. Hazer wrote: I just got my computer back from the shop were multiple viruses were expelled and a hacker banished. But now Adobe flash player is blocked so I am have no picture to go with the narrative. Thankfully, however, it wonderfully descriptive I can pick out the
19. Hazer wrote: corresponding artwork with ease.
20. chelydra wrote: I have flash in Safari but it's no longer available in the Google browser.
21. chelydra wrote: Just tried Firefox and that works too, after a query about whether to let the site use FlashÂ®.
22. chelydra wrote: But flash is definitely on the way out, and with it will go all the sites programmed to use it. I'm not sure if there's any substitute available for pulling existing sites into some new mode, or if our familiar internet entertainments are doomed.
23. chelydra wrote: we'll have to have a virtual drinking binge or something if thinkdraw is really going under... seems so strange the immediate success turning into lassitude and desiccationâ€”some good new people still showing with nice energy...
24. richardsba wrote: Stunning
25. AFSOUTH wrote: Outstanding!
26. indigo wrote: When I first log on I have to click on the picture and then Flash always asks if I allow and I click yes and then I'm okay. As long as I stay logged on it will not ask me again. It never did that before, I don't know why. Does when I do jigsaw puzzles als
27. chelydra wrote: Flash was originally coded/programmed (not sure of terminology) with some built-in flaws that can't be corrected... One result is that provides openings for adware and malicious virus things to slip aside your computer from the internet.
28. chelydra wrote: And â€” this is total conjecture, from the perspective of a technical ignoramusâ€”the upgrades of browsers have had to keep accommodating the quirks and flaws of Flash, and that probably makes for some cumbersome and brittle neuron-paths.
29. chelydra wrote: Google browsers flat-out refuse to deal with flash from now on. The others are probably going to do the same.
30. chelydra wrote: TWO more hearts than starsâ€”some kind of record? What does it mean? More lovable than skillful perhaps? Whatever it means, many thanks.