« »

Filed under This & That

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

What is a sheep? This simple question is more than enough to have kept scientists occupied for hundreds of years, and will continue to do so for many years to come.

Philip Ball

Contentment

Tags: , , , ,

29 Comments CherryPie on Mar 9th 2014

29 Responses to “Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week”

  1. London Caller says:
    March 9, 2014 at 11:19 pm

    It’s now 11.18pm
    Staring at these sheep is kinda hypnotic at this late hour zzz ;)

  2. Sean Jeating says:
    March 9, 2014 at 11:27 pm

    One . . . two . . . three . . . four . . . five . . . six . . . yawn . . . se…ven . . . zzz

  3. CherryPie says:
    March 9, 2014 at 11:42 pm

    Ahhh… The counting and staring at sheep! I had forgotten about the effect that would have ;-)

  4. ....peter:) says:
    March 10, 2014 at 4:40 am

    This is such a beautiful peaceful scene Cherie… Philip Ball’s thoughts are way too complicated… they are simply sheep… that’s all:-)
    ….peter:)

  5. CalumCarr says:
    March 10, 2014 at 6:44 am

    Far too deep for me.

    • CherryPie says:
      March 10, 2014 at 9:22 pm

      I can’t provide an explanation on this quote I haven’t figured it out either!

      It just gave me a good excuse to post my Sheep picture :-)

  6. Ginnie says:
    March 10, 2014 at 7:37 am

    The scientists would have had a heyday with us on Saturday, Cherry, when we went to see 230 lambs just born at the nearby sheep fold. :)

  7. james higham says:
    March 10, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    Clone of Dolly?

  8. Claude says:
    March 10, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    What a beautiful setting for great looking sheep. My question with sheep is why a missing “s” when there is more than one?

  9. Ayush says:
    March 11, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    what a view! among your best shots CP. love the greens

  10. Andrew MacLaren-Scott says:
    March 11, 2014 at 3:07 pm

    What is a sheep?

    What is anything?

    • CherryPie says:
      March 11, 2014 at 9:05 pm

      Everything is something!

      • Andrew MacLaren-Scott says:
        March 12, 2014 at 12:33 am

        Agreed, everything is something, but what, exactly? I know down to a certain level, of course, but not to an ultimate level. Anyone who tells you they know what matter is doesn’t understand the question they think they have the answer to. I do think I know what a sheep is though (sort of. :)

  11. JD says:
    March 11, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    “What is a sheep? ”

    A sheep is a device for converting grass into woolly jumpers

    it’s obvious innit :)

    p.s.-
    If you want to be really pedantic, it’s a device for turning sunlight into woolly jumpers: sunshine makes the grass grow, sheep eat the grass, sheep grow big and fleecy, etc etc

    • Andrew MacLaren-Scott says:
      March 11, 2014 at 8:31 pm

      Actually JD, if you want to be really pedantic it is a system from turning sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and quite a few other things into wooly jumpers, as sunlight just provides the energy not the substance for the jumpers (and the socks, and the cardigans, and… jings, it does get quite complicated the more you think of it… but actually I think a sheep is really just a system that makes lambs.)