You’ve Been Warned!

Possibly fake, it’s been around since at least 2005, but still funny.

- Poppa

Thought-Provoking. “Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?”

Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

D’oh! Canada!

 ”Wrong Way” Champlain

The most prominent sculpture in Ottawa is the monumental statue of Samuel de Champlain at Nepean Point.  The most famous aspect of the statue is the astrolabe Champlain is holding in his hand.  He’s holding it upside down.

The presumption is that Champlain knew how to hold his astrolabe but the sculptor didn’t.

- Poppa

“Let’s achieve even more supremacy”

Sometimes I miss the no-nonsense-take-no-prisoners style of the old Soviet Union.   Fortunately, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is still around to buzzkill and bewilder.

From the Times Online.

North Korean Motivational Posters

A London exhibition of hand-painted North Korean posters features some unexpected slogans.

“Let’s create a social impetus for enjoying wearing our national dress”
“Let’s grow more sunflowers!”
“Let’s take revenge a thousand times on the US imperialist wolves!”

“Nobody in the world can defeat us!”
“Let’s expand goat rearing and create more grassland in accordance with the party!”
“Just as it began, the revolution advances and is victorious, through the barrel of a gun.”

“Let’s be invincible in every fight.”
“Let’s achieve even more supremacy.”
“Let’s make wearing the beautiful and elegant Korean dress a lifestyle.”

“The reunified fatherland is at the tip of our bayonets.”
“Let’s breed more high-yielding fish.”
“In all institutions and workplaces, let’s popularise basketball.”

“Let’s not forget the blood-drenched hatred!” (regarding The Korean War — or the Great Fatherland Liberation War — as it is known in the North)
“The world turns with Korea as its axis.”
“Our missile program is a guarantee for world peace and security.”

- Poppa

End of World Rescheduled for Late October, Early November

Turns out the REAL catastrophe won’t occur until the LHC is running in both directions and the particles actually collide.  That’s not scheduled to happen for about four weeks.

This warning is brought to you by Doomsayers INC., whose motto is,  “Sure, We’ve Been Wrong For Over Five Thousand Years, But We’re Right This Time, Really!”

World to End Wednesday

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, is scheduled to be turned on full blast for the first time this Wednesday.  A tiny but vocal minority is concerned that the LHC will spawn mini-black holes that will sink to the center of the Earth and grow until they’ve swallowed the planet.  Either that, or all matter on the planet will be converted to strangelets.

Kinda reminds me of stories about the tiny but vocal minority who were concerned that the first atomic explosion might ignite the Earth’s atmosphere.  The latest tiny but vocal minority doesn’t appreciate being reminded of this and says the black hole engulfing or stranglet converting is much more likely than the atmosphere igniting.

You may want to wrap up any loose ends before Wednesday, just in case.  The tiny but vocal minority only has to be right once.

In the meantime, here’s an informational video brought to you by CERN, the good people who may be destroying the Earth the day after tomorrow.

Poppa

Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says

From CNN:

“… apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released Thursday.”

“The report notes that a separate study by researchers at Stanford University estimated that the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age.”

Who knew early humans were so hard on their environment?  They must have learned their lesson, though.  They obliterated all traces of their pollution-emitting SUVs and developed a greener technology.

Here’s an artist’s depiction of what a Stone Age ecologically sound car probably looked like.

 

- Poppa