It has been determined that the 20 year-old, bus-sized, 6 ton NASA satellite crashed to the earth in pieces. And . . . since it landed in the Indian Ocean just northeast and southwest of Christmas Island . . . it “falled harmlessly into the ocean and caused no human deaths.”
Whew! That was close! said the Christmas Island Frigate Bird to the nearby sea turtle. I was just sailing along in the wave-troughs, minding my own business, when I saw my two frigate friends disappear in a tremendous cloud of foam and plankton. They just were simply gone. I will never see them again. There are not many of us frigates around anymore . . . unlike the humans. What was it anyway?
Beats me, said Sea Turtle, I know just what you mean . . . I was under the water at the time . . . just swimming along . . . and the the force of the impact was so great that I blew out all my ear wax that I was collecting for sale on the mainland. They pay a lot for it! The rumor among us few turtles is that the Christmas Islanders collect it and make Turtle Wax to sell for polishing their cars and even sell it abroad. And my ears aren’t all that large . . . it takes time to collect enough to amount to anything.
Something bothers me, Frigate, said Sea Turtle. What’s that Turtle? said Frigate.I can’t seem to find the rest of the turtles. They said that they were going, as a group, to find better feeding grounds. But, they were just here when we saw that chunk of something crash into the ocean. DO YOU SUPPOSE?! Oh, no! What will I ever do all alone? At least, it didn’t cause any human deaths . . . and maybe I will eventually generate more ear wax to sell to the islanders . . .
And what about all the endangered seals, dugong, and whales?
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