During graduate school in eastern Missouri, some friends and I would go spelunking in one particular cave. On one occasion, the geologist of the group mentioned that there might be another part of the cave, but we would have to go under water to get there. It was only 58 degrees in that cave and we were already soaked, so none of us was particularly interested in going first. I volunteered. As it was, we didn't have to go totally underwater. Instead we had to lie down, pull ourselves along with our hands digging into the sand, and turn our heads to the side and up to breathe. 15-20 feet later, I popped out into a new part of the cave - knew to us and the rest of humanity - animals already knew about it. | During graduate school in eastern Missouri, some friends and I would go spelunking in one particular cave. On one occasion, the geologist of the group mentioned that there might be another part of the cave, but we would have to go under water to get there. It was only 58 degrees in that cave and we were already soaked, so none of us was particularly interested in going first. I volunteered. As it was, we didn't have to go totally underwater. Instead we had to lie down, pull ourselves along with our hands digging into the sand, and turn our heads to the side and up to breathe. 15-20 feet later, I popped out into a new part of the cave - knew to us and the rest of humanity - animals already knew about it. |