Daily Darwin – Belly Flop Fail

Darwin has a hard time containing his glee every time some fool attempts a belly flop (or as Darwin in wont to call it – a ball buster) and it turns out to be a true genome squisher.  Usually, there is water involved, and sometimes as in this poor fool’s experience, not so much water.

Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others. Who are we to disagree? The next generation, ever and anon, is descended from the survivors

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A Nostalgic Polar Vortex Christmas Scene

The Chicago Tribune reports, “As subzero cold hits, wind chill advisory for Wednesday night, Thursday morning“.

With overnight temperatures dropping well below zero, the National Weather

Service has issued a wind chill advisory for Wednesday night through Thursday morning.

The advisory is in effect from 9 p.m. Wednesday until 10 a.m. Thursday. The weather service said wind chills could reach minus 30 in some areas. It warned people could suffer frostbite in as little as 30 minutes.

One happy corollary, the sub-freezing temperatures slow Chiraq’s murder rate down a bit. Once the sun comes out, and things warm up again…maybe not so much.

Chiraq Murder stats – HeyJackass.com

AGW – Polar Bear Polka

Somehow I think the polar bears will do just fine.  Here’s a scene from Michigan’s I-94 yesterday before the “lanes reopened after winter weather causes multiple crashes“.  Polar bears in Kalamazoo?  Maybe that AGW-Climate Change-Global Warming (AKA: Weather) thing is not what it’s cracked up to be?

Forget the Chalk – Gimme the Doh

Trump Play-Doh Safe Space Deraignment Syndrome (TPDSSDS) has be born.  See.  Donald Trump is creating even more new jobs before Inauguration Day.  To solve the TPDSSDS crisis, you gotta have Therapists, and ‘binky’ washers,  and safety pin distribution experts,  interventionists, and coddlers, and grievances communicators–But wait, there’s even more.  You have to Expert Media Consultants to be talking heads on cable….

 

Quantum Plates – Or Cat in a China Shop

Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.[1] It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a cat that may be simultaneously both alive and dead,[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] a state known as a quantum superposition, as a result of being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. The thought experiment is also often featured in theoretical discussions of the interpretations of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement) in the course of developing the thought experiment.