Spacebird and Astrowhale

Spacebird started out different from all the other birds in his flock and while they were all famous for flying high, he was always flying higher than the rest and higher still building up the resistance needed to go further and further out there even though there was no compelling reason. That is until he got there.

Astrowhale started life as a freak among freaks who could dive deeper than any of the others in his pod and they were the deepest of all the deep diving whales. After a while he could stay down longer than ever and started mapping out places no living whale had ever gone before and he had no obvious reason for going there. But then again, in the end it turns out that it is worth the trip.

After years of reaching their respective extremes these two unique individuals represented the two limits of the bandwidth of life on earth and the same dumb luck that led to their mutual existence also somehow managed to align the moon and the stars just right and the two animals achieved a geosynchronous orbit at just the right latitude and longitude to create a harmonic resonance between Spacebird, Astrowhale and the nearest satellite. Dish Network specifically half way between channel 9646 and 9647, you can Google on how to tune it in.

So eventually Astrowhale had to come up for air and even Spacebird comes down to fish once in a while so it was inevitable that they should meet in person, face to face, beak to beak so to speak, as it were. After that it was only a matter of time before they developed a symbiosis that miraculously increased the abilities of each other by virtue of their mutual pre-existing satellite hookup.

Next thing you know the internet got ahold of the data feed showing the travels of our heroes and that led to the first major discoveries of the unknown at the edges of our world. This was the turning point when folks got their first glimpse of the Trench Slugs and Plasma Plankton.

Trench slugs are 400 foot long monsters at the bottom of the ocean that won't register on visual or temperature scanning but there they are and Astrowhale just loves provoking them into casting off their supply of purified proteins. The baby slugs are the size of a school bus but only 6 inches tall due to the high pressure.

Plasma plankton is nearly invisible and uses direct heat from the sun along with the ambient friction at the outermost layers of the atmosphere to grow microscopic animals that need neither air nor water to complete photosynthesis around the smallest dust particles. No one ever bothered to look there yet let alone capture a sample. But good old Spacebird could collect them until they became visible glowing on the video feed the same way Astrowhale was able to generate light at depth by using the local ambient florescence.

Next Chapter in the Adventures of Spacebird and Astrowhale; Gamma Ray Light Worms and Sea-Floor Super Smelters.