Originally published at: Albatrosses listen to the sea to navigate the sky | Boing Boing
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somebody’s got to catch the scientists. if it hadn’t been the albatross, it would have been the orca i’m sure. gotta catch them all, really.
is it right that albatrosses were once considered a good luck bird for sailors?
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that is a curious poem, indeed! making fun of the “crippled beast that once flew”. but surely, with this poem written almost 100 years after Coleridge, Baudelaire would have been warned off harming the great bird of the seas?!
i much prefer your reference to the Echoes track from the Pink Floyd album of same title. my favorite!
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Albatrosses… seems like there should be a better plural than that. Albatrodes?
(Giggles, runs away)
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How about albatroi? (Ancient Greek morphology)
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The ol’ switcheroo, we’re listening to Albatross!
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Derailing the topic: I do like this song. At first it wasn’t my favorite, but I came to appreciate Echoes every time I listened to the album.
I wonder if other birds like vultures, frigates and eagles use a similar method to find the air currents that keep them “floating” in the sky in a constant flight.
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I first heard it on the Live at Pompeii, and I have loved it since.
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