Couldn't sleep last night, watched the sunrise on the balcony and learned about dinosaurs. They were full of air, and diplodocus could theoretically whip crack its tail with a sonic boom

I always wondered how birds managed to develop hollow bones and air sacs to be lighter, because that would suggest a whole stretch of trying to fly quite badly while still being quite heavy, but nah, they already had them because they had millions of years of being so HUGE

So dinosaurs were like vast inflatable animals that shrank until they were small enough to take off in a breeze. Pretty much. Untethered beach toys

But muscular

It's like the O2 arena shrinking down into a kite, that's birds

They just kept the evolutionary feature that allowed them to be vast while trying out being tiny instead and it allowed them to fly. No wonder they're still everywhere. Meanwhile, we mammals solidified, didn't keep the air sacs. Had a go at being tall again but stopped at giraffe

Giraffes were a bit of an experiment, I think they have no close relatives, just some animal that went off by itself, eat trees, invent a special brain sponge so they don't die from their own blood pressure when having a drink of water. Be incredibly heavy

Or just go back in the sea, which supports greater weight, be a whale there, swimming is a bit like flying... Vastness isn't something to be reclaimed that easily once you solidified

This has been long term career advice for insomniacs, with your host Viv, now make me coffee