“It is extremely simple to sit down in Berlin and have an opinion about our affairs in Botswana. We’re paying the worth for preserving these animals for the world,” the president of the southern African nation mentioned.
“We wish our elephants to roam freely. The German climate is unhealthy sufficient for them,” Masisi mentioned. “For those who like them a lot, then please settle for this present from us.”
I feel we will all agree that this could be great. Angela Merkel might come out of retirement to utter these well-known three little phrases “Wir schaffen das!” as the primary elephants parade by means of the Brandenburg Gate. Olaf Scholz might be sure that he travels in all places by elephant in an effort to appear even barely fascinating. The federal government might promise to ship Ukraine some battle elephants as an alternative of Taurus missiles. And picture the enjoyment of taking a stroll by means of Munich’s Marienplatz and recognizing a household of elephants! It could be like occurring safari however with larger sausage choices!
It could additionally make the expression “we have to speak in regards to the elephant within the room” (which doesn’t actually exist in German however that’s not going to cease me from making a labored joke) rather more fascinating as a result of there would usually be an precise elephant within the room.
And now a message from our Tenuous Hyperlinks Division…
You understand the place there can be loads of room for elephants? The moon! And shortly the moon (and its giant mammals) could have its personal time zone. The U.S. authorities has requested NASA to determine a moon-centric time reference system, which is being dubbed Coordinated Lunar Time. That’s somewhat difficult as time does, in fact, transfer extra rapidly on the moon as a result of there are a great deal of thrilling issues to do there (or possibly due to gravity).
