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fresh_42 said:
Do we know whether the protesters were from France?
Sounds like udder chaos!
 
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I'm not sure whether this would have been better posted on Science Jokes ...
http://www.sciencealert.com/new-study-calculates-how-long-humanity-could-survive-a-zombie-apocalypse
Physics students have calculated how long it would take for humans to be wiped out by an infectious zombie apocalypse, and the results are pretty depressing.

The study suggests that after just 100 days - a little over three months - less than 300 humans would be left alive on the entire planet.
And have a look on how seriously they meant it (SIR models and all the stuff):
https://physics.le.ac.uk/journals/index.php/pst/article/view/956/679
https://physics.le.ac.uk/journals/index.php/pst/article/view/965/683

I just saw it's a British url ... (cp. the previous post)
 
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People in Portland don't know how to handle snow:

http://www.kptv.com/clip/13021521/portland-motorist-drives-wrong-way-down-i-5-during-snowstorm
 
fresh_42 said:
Which snow? Kids would have trouble to gather enough for a snowman.

You're right, my kids just made this instead. The Oregon snow chicken.
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I just got back from Portland.
They have some lousy snow drivers.
A major bridge was completely blocked by two spun-out cars (at a time when the snow was easy to drive on (cakey, not slippery)).
 
fresh_42 said:
I knew this from the southern part of US, but Oregon should be used to snow, shouldn't it?
Not really. We haven't had any significant snow since December of 2008.
I realized this last month when I couldn't figure out why when I put my chains on, they were inside out.
I had purchased my truck in 2009 and have never had to put them on.
It turns out, the image on the instructions was printed backwards.
I fixed the image with a sharpie, as I'm sure I'll have forgotten all this, when it snows again, in the year 2025.
 
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OmCheeto said:
Not really. We haven't had any significant snow since December of 2008.

Most people don't realize that Oregon snow is different because it's 100% pure organic fresh from Hawaii. No added chemicals or compounds are found in the snow here unlike snow that falls in places like Detroit or Cleveland. This makes 1 inch of Oregon snow equivalent to 2 feet of fly-over country snow so this last snow storm is the local equivalent of an ice-age.



 
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nsaspook said:
You're right, my kids just made this instead. The Oregon snow chicken.
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Are you going to let 'Couverittes outdo your kids?

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Get them a ladder!

ps. PF legal disclaimer: This is a dangerous (aka, someone is going to die) activity, and OmCheeto does not actually encourage this.
 
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The Hall of Presidents and First Ladies in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania has closed, and all the wax figures will be auctioned off tomorrow.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/enterta...x-figures-to-be-auctioned-20161205-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/gettysburg-presidential-memorabilia-.html

I wonder how much Millard Fillmore will go for. :-p

However, you'll still be able to get a similar historical experience at the Presidents Hall of Fame on US 27 in Clermont, Florida. My wife and I drove past it many times on our way to visit my parents in Fort Lauderdale, but we never stopped there.
 
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Wyoming proposal would require utilities to use fossil fuels
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/...tilities-fossil-fuels-185233028--finance.html
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A group of Wyoming lawmakers is bucking the U.S. trend of supporting renewable energy with a plan to do the opposite: Fine utilities if they provide energy produced by wind or the sun.

Blustery Wyoming ranks among the top states for wind-energy potential, but the coal, oil and natural gas industries are the backbone of the state's economy.
So what happened to the free-market philosophy? I thought the idea was to let businesses decide how best to run their business, and not have government dictate how a business should run itself.
 
Astronuc said:
So what happened to the free-market philosophy? I thought the idea was to let businesses decide how best to run their business, and not have government dictate how a business should run itself.
Unless your politicians are funded by particular industries.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/science...asel-display-rotterdam-natural-history-museum
The stone marten is the latest dead animal to go on display at the museum. It joins a sparrow that was shot after it sabotaged a world record attempt by knocking over 23,000 dominoes; a hedgehog that got fatally stuck in a McDonalds McFlurry pot, and a catfish that fell victim to a group of men in the Netherlands who developed a tradition for drinking vast amounts of beer and swallowing fish from their aquarium. The catfish turned out to be armoured, and on being swallowed raised its spines. The defence did not save the fish, but it put the 28-year-old man who tried to swallow it in intensive care for a week.
 
Man's pacemaker data leads to arson and insurance fraud charges
Compton told the police that when he saw his house burning on September 19th last year, he packed his suitcases, threw them out his bedroom window and carried them to his car. However, since has a serious heart condition and other medical issues that would have made it extremely difficult for him to do all those, the cops were able to secure a search warrant for his pacemaker data.
 
EnumaElish said:
That picture is like an earworm. It keeps playing in my head.
You mean earsnake?
 
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