I'd sooner trust treknobabble for an explanation than any thing you say.

The pili is indigenous to the Philippines (Merrill 1912, 1923; Wester 1921; Brown 1954; Li 1970).

...and it was so embarrassing and they always seem to bring the lights on immediately, and here I am with my wet glasses, and I'm trying to unfog them and get the bloodshot veins out of my eyes.

Some gorget (neckplate) leather linings recovered from the Batavia (1629) were found to be in a very good state of preservation after 350 years' immersion (50). Under water, where it will invariably also be in a buried ...