Reply To: The recent "discovery" of Dark Matter

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Rezwan wrote: [Note: the massive animal migration incompatibility with human civilization/property/transport is one of the issues I’m most interested in exploring. It’s next in line after fusion for my big issues. Oh, maybe water cycle – well, that overlaps with both.]

I’ve got a story for you that a woman told me.

She’s probably nearing her 60’s now. She used to work in some power company on the east coast, right on the Atlantic. She was a security guard. The plant had just opened and she was working the night shift. One night on a full moon she noticed the ground toward the beach seemed to be moving. She went out with her flashlight and saw the ground was covered with sea turtles, marching in to the plant property.

It was a full moon thing, they’re supposed to follow the full moon out to sea, but the plant had some big spotlights they’d turn on at night. The turtles were coming up out of their eggs, laid in the sand. And following their instincts they were going after the wrong light and certain death.

The woman managed to get the lights turned off quickly enough, and the turtles turned around and headed out to sea, and they survived.

The company then did a bit of research and now knows the timing of the hatchings, and they always turn the lights off during this time. As far as I know there were no environmentalists involved, no government intervention. Just the people in the company who had the power to make decisions decided what was the thing to do given the circumstances.