I wanted to share two memories of things I've pondered.

The first is simple. When me and my father cooked a thin steak on a rock in Bulgaria in summer I asked him something, because he said it tasted salty.

We put water on a rock, that we used in front of our building, and then tried the same thing a year later.

The steak tasted salty.

There's salt in air. I can't put my finger on what it is, but I think sometimes summer gets so hot than when water condenses, some of the salt turns into a harmless gas and mixes with air. I don't know how physics can explain this, because rocks collect salt from somewhere, it can't be from rain, and the only other thing it could be from is air.

Second.

I once told a colleague of mine in high school "what if we could raise chicks with incubators, to feed people. It won't make more food, but protein from meat fills you more than from eggs."

I only have this to say to you...

I don't know if it's actually been observed, but what if when a chicken lays an egg, it's always planning to incubate it.

The thing is that maybe chickens want to incubate 12 eggs, or even more, at one time. They are planning all planning to make chicks, unless they aren't physically able to lay an egg. They're just wating for the right time.

An incubator uses electricity, a chicken naturally incubates eggs.

I don't know how much this could help world hunger, maybe not whatsoever, but I had to share it.

I only have one request tied to this post.

Do a simple experiment with a chicken...

Have it lay eggs without collecting them, to see what it does when its nest is full.

I don't think a mother would lay an egg and abandon her baby by not giving birth to it.