Anomalous Phenomena: The Para-Pachydermic Explanation “Get your umbrella ready,” said the TV weatherman. “Lots of rain tomorrow.” The next day considerable precipitation fell but not rain. Six inches of snow in the city, twelve inches up in the mountains. Obviously weather forecasting isn’t an exact science. Despite all the data gathered, there could be a tiny bug in the system that throws off the prediction. The chaos butterfly. An analogy that shows how an unknown element or X factor can make the weatherman look like an idiot. Two months before the weatherman predicted rain, a butterfly in China flapped its wings a couple of extra times. This pushed additional air molecules along, a small action that kept building as the days passed, until it turned into a cold air mass that unexpectedly shifted, turning rain into snow. Science itself isn’t an exact science. But there are those who act like it is, resulting in dogma that doesn’t allow any thinking beyond what it considered “no...
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I half-expected to see a bird in this post, somewhere.
A bird? Didn't you see that chick in the picture?
Ray
Such is my association. Clearly, I am not single.
Also, I am rarely bored. (I am often wasting time, but not often bored.) That's why I am not a better blogger.
The internet pretty much relies on boredom. Okay, it relies entirely on boredom.
What were we talking about?
What were we talking about?
The butte of my joke.
Ray