Pipelines are cool. So are seagulls. Except that seagulls wake me up in the morning, pipelines don’t. On the other hand, seagulls can fly, whereas pipelines are anchored in the ground. Maybe they’re anchored in the ground, because otherwise they’d fly away, like seagulls.

“Oh, that I had the wings of a seagull”, the mighty pipeline dreams in the night, “so I could fly away and be at rest.”

Seagulls can sit on pipelines. Pipelines cannot sit on seagulls. That puts seagulls in a more advantageous state versus pipelines. Pipelines need to evolve to seagulls, but not the other way.

Such is life. Oy!