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 suffice it to say the Laschamp Event totally explains the incidence of a high radiation event that could have caused the mutation that gave us lactose tolerance after weaning and white skin and red/blonde hair, all of which are basically deletions of DNA that is common to most mammals, but, interestingly, mutations that are found also rarely in all mammals, the russian blue, the white cat (with blue eyes) and first time i ever saw it, a white horse, with blue eyes, and a dog with white hair and blue eyes lives up the street from me and these white animals proliferate across this island i live on now

and i was reading this at the time i first saw all these critters around me, and it talks about the Canary Islands as being Tartarus, and the pyramids there on Tenerife

so, it kinda hit me different