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So, in order to test the handy-dandy crosspost function on Dreamwidth, I am going to write about this dream I had.
Okay, so, I was standing in the water on an unknown, sort of pretty, beach, getting a history lesson from some guy (he wasn't interesting enough for me to remember much about him.) It was all about this species of squid or cuttlefish that had this sac behind its eyes filled with incredibly pure fresh water, and how it affected the history of the people who lived in that area.
Each eye had a bladder the size of a grapefruit that had potable water in it. When it was removed, it was slimy at first, but the skin and eyeball dried into a strange silicone texture and stayed airtight, so the sacs could be stored for extended times and transported. They weren't too easily damaged, and could be piled on top of each other with very little chance of bursting.
You "opened" it by pulling out the eyeball!
And one of the "amazing facts" about these squid/cuttlefish things was that they were so abundant that "scientists today estimate that several hundred years ago there was more fresh water inside the bodies of the population of [whatever the squid things were called] than all other fresh water sources on the planet combined"... This impressed me a lot!
And hundreds of years ago harvesting the things became a huge industry because it made things like traveling by ship or over the desert over long distances much easier because they were so easy to store. The area became one of the richest nations in the world, with some of the biggest cities, because of all the money and trade they brought in. I asked a lot of questions about why we have plastic water bottles today, and why don't they just sell water-bladders around the world? And apparently they were still selling them most places, but in the US people were too squeamish to drink water from squid-sacs, so it was squeezed out at big processing plants and bottled just like spring water, and the squid things were still so abundant that it didn't even cost any more. (I'm not sure why my brain invented all of this alternate history, but there was still a USA populated by picky eaters.)
Anyway, I tried some of the squid water and it tasted salty to me, but the dude talking to me about it said it was just because we were standing in the ocean and some must have splashed inside. I was really disappointed that it wasn't hella delicious!
The end.
Okay, so, I was standing in the water on an unknown, sort of pretty, beach, getting a history lesson from some guy (he wasn't interesting enough for me to remember much about him.) It was all about this species of squid or cuttlefish that had this sac behind its eyes filled with incredibly pure fresh water, and how it affected the history of the people who lived in that area.
Each eye had a bladder the size of a grapefruit that had potable water in it. When it was removed, it was slimy at first, but the skin and eyeball dried into a strange silicone texture and stayed airtight, so the sacs could be stored for extended times and transported. They weren't too easily damaged, and could be piled on top of each other with very little chance of bursting.
You "opened" it by pulling out the eyeball!
And one of the "amazing facts" about these squid/cuttlefish things was that they were so abundant that "scientists today estimate that several hundred years ago there was more fresh water inside the bodies of the population of [whatever the squid things were called] than all other fresh water sources on the planet combined"... This impressed me a lot!
And hundreds of years ago harvesting the things became a huge industry because it made things like traveling by ship or over the desert over long distances much easier because they were so easy to store. The area became one of the richest nations in the world, with some of the biggest cities, because of all the money and trade they brought in. I asked a lot of questions about why we have plastic water bottles today, and why don't they just sell water-bladders around the world? And apparently they were still selling them most places, but in the US people were too squeamish to drink water from squid-sacs, so it was squeezed out at big processing plants and bottled just like spring water, and the squid things were still so abundant that it didn't even cost any more. (I'm not sure why my brain invented all of this alternate history, but there was still a USA populated by picky eaters.)
Anyway, I tried some of the squid water and it tasted salty to me, but the dude talking to me about it said it was just because we were standing in the ocean and some must have splashed inside. I was really disappointed that it wasn't hella delicious!
The end.