GENIUS FORUMS

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When you get a chance, please let me know if the rock-like items in your avatar are (Australian?) stromatalites?

I could be all half-baked, but I just saw a science program on the toob (looked just like them!) that indicated these stromatalite structures are actually built by cyanobacteria, and that cyanobacteria is (apparently) responsible for creating enough oxygen to begin supporting life above/ground (above sea) many moons ago.

Even if your avatar is not so heavily laden with meaning, I like it anyhow.

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I don't know about Sue's avatar, but I caught the same program on Nova. The site investigated was located in western Australia.

I think they're too circular/globular to be stromatalites.

Hi Pye,

No, they're not "stromatalites", they're boulders which to me appear to be lined up like stepping stones. They evoke a sense of calm, confident and solid progress - something I strive for.

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Sue writes:

No, they're not "stromatalites", they're boulders which to me appear to be lined up like stepping stones. They evoke a sense of calm, confident and solid progress - something I strive for.

Ta, Sue.
The science fellow in the program was standing at sea-edge right next to these globular structures he called stromatalites that stretched out in the water just like your stepping stones. One camera shot was just like the pov in your avatar.

I like the stepping image as much for the leaping quality that Nietzsche speaks of in Philo in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, too. It's in the section on Thales, wherein Nietzsche describes philosophy that leaps ahead on tiny toe holds, whilst the man of science lumbers heavily behind, needing more solid ground before he is willing to move.