Food For Thought... Consider this ye thinkers hither, thither and yon: For a given particle, chunk, clump or kib (kib a part of kibble?) what to your way of thinking is the physical relationship between the mass of a food particle and its surface area? Is it not inversely proportional? And if so or not, so what? Yeah, so what? You've got no or yea intuition relating to surfaces? You should. Particle-lization, yea even micro-miniaturization is of the most extreme importance in the physical biochemistry that governs the translation of food chunks into the mighty millions of mini bits, and I mean really tiny mini-mini bits that many of us recognize at compounds, molecules, ions and maybe even subatomic sized matter that we find difficult to visualize, even more so than Word Peace. Da, the cold blueeyes of Vladimir Putin's idea of Georgian peace. Let me close this mystery now for your learned reflection on just what your view would be were you crouching inside the gut of a 10,000 ton giant ferretus maximus. Sometimes a soul shaking experience comes from viewing the so called obvious from an altogether different perspective, the perspective of being inside looking out. As BIG remarked he feared the Mehr kommt spaeter Damen und Herren, and you know, here it is, the second installment, just a hint of what's to come from the belly of the mustelid with the dark mask. Beware! Beware the mighty sphincter and the massed billions of potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli. that could suddenly propel you projectively outa there with an even greater velocity than the penstock water exiting the flooded Glenn Canyon dam. Edward Lip In Ski FNW Foundation Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Or, do fruit flys like a banana...hmmmm; gotta think about that one.. [Posted in FML 6071]