Posts Tagged ‘Predict’

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Promiscuous Women / Divine Retribution

by Seraphine Khorana on April 21st, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Promiscuous Women / Divine Retribution

If I can’t blame YOU, who else is there to blame?

Father Wages Court Battle Against Funeral Protests “Military deaths are the work of a wrathful God who punishes the United States for tolerating homosexuality.” (ABC News)

Why Is Pat Robertson Blaming Haiti? “The [Haitian earthquake] was divine retribution for a pact with the devil.” (Time Magazine)

Disabled Kids are God’s Punishment for Abortion “God is taking “vengeance” on parents who have had abortions by making their other children disabled.” (CBS News)

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Friday the 13th: End of the World Prediction

by Seraphine Khorana on November 13th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Friday the 13th: End of the World Prediction

The end of the world is getting nearer and nearer, hurling towards us at over 25,000 miles an hour. The current assumption is there is a 10% chance per century of a dangerous, life destroying space object striking the earth.

Apophis is small by asteroid standards, perhaps 300 meters across, but it could hit with about 60,000 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb– enough to destroy an area the size of France.
Quotation from The Atlantic, The Sky is Falling by Gregg Easterbrook

If Apophis is a RETROGRADE rotator on the small, less-massive end of what is possible, the measurement uncertainty region will get pushed back such that the center of the distribution encounters the Earth’s orbit. This would result in an impact probability much higher than computed with the Standard Dynamical Model.
Quotation from U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Near Earth Object Program, Predicting Apophis’ Earth Encounters in 2029 and 2036.

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Fashion Faux Pas – The Muumuu

by Seraphine Khorana on September 27th, 2009
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Fashion Faux Pas – The Muumuu

It was Al Bundy on the television show Married With Children that ruined it. He burned into the American consciousness the impression that only fat women wear muumuus. In reality, the muumuu is comfortable to wear in hot weather because it hangs loosely from the shoulders, much like the roomy Hawaiian shirt for men.

I don’t want to look like a weirdo. I’ll just go with a muumuu.
Quotation from Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

I hate the supermarket. I always wind up in the two-thousand-items-or-less aisle behind some ugly lady in a muumuu and curlers.
Quotation from Al Bundy, Married With Children

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Name Something

by Seraphine Khorana on September 17th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Name Something

I invented a new game to play. It’s called Name Something.
Begin the game by saying “Name something you don’t leave…”
Examples: Name something you don’t leave… where your mother can find it.
Name something you don’t leave… in your carry-on luggage at the airport.
Name something you don’t leave… in your medicine cabinet when you have company.

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The Black Swan

by Seraphine Khorana on July 29th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
The Black Swan

No matter how carefully you prepare, Black Swan events, by definition, will still occur. Gotcha.

Ten Principles for a Black Swan-Proof World (FooledByRandomness.com) What is fragile should break early while it is still small.

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Costa Rica, Part Eleven: No Tocar Los Manos

by Seraphine Khorana on January 30th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Costa Rica, Part Eleven: No Tocar Los Manos

Animals are smarter than people acknowledge. They have fundamentally disparate senses and abilities than humans, so they understand the world differently than we do.

Can Animals Predict Earthquakes? (LiveScience.com)
Animals & Earthquake Prediction (U.S. Geological Survey)

There have also been examples where authorities have forecast successfully a major earthquake, based in part on the observation of the strange antics of animals. For example, in 1975 Chinese officials ordered the evacuation of Haicheng, a city with one million people, just days before a 7.3-magnitude quake. Only a small portion of the population was hurt or killed. If the city had not been evacuated, it is estimated that the number of fatalities and injuries could have exceeded 150,000.
Quotation from National Geographic News

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