MOS: Super Blue Moon
It takes 27.3 days to rotate around the Earth, but we see a lunar cycle happening about every 29.5 days. Tide goes in, tide goes out, you can definitely goddamn explain that.
Current Events
MOS: The Smell of Parkinson’s
At first Les bathed more thoroughly as requested, but it didn’t help. He couldn’t smell it, and nobody else seemed to detect a whiff either.
MOS: Metformin and Long Covid
Why go through the trouble of conducting a whole other study when you can just ask the people who got those delicious free drugs if they’ll track any covidian symptoms for a year? Worst that happens is you find out a bit more nothing.
MOS: Phosgene Clouds in Ohio
In order to avoid what could have been an even bigger disaster, in a controlled release they lit all that vinyl chloride on fire.
MOS: Earth’s Core Keeps on Turning
CNN had a real physics professor on to discuss this, and he… certainly spoke some words, but as for how many of them were accurate?
MOS: MERS
Over 2,300 people were tested for MERS during the months of the World Cup, and there wasn’t a single positive test.
MOS: DART
If an asteroid happens upon a collision course with Earth after it was inexplicably the only thing screenwriters could think about in 1998, I expect we will have a plan to yeet that shit on over to Uranus.
MOS: The James Webb Space Telescope
After upwards of thirteen billion years of space travel, that giant honeycomb mirror collects every weary infrared photon it can grab.
MOS: Bread and Revolutions
In all likelihood, Marie Antoinette never said ‘let them eat cake’ when she was told the people had no bread. Great story though. Royalty really […]
MOS: Havana Syndrome
True, this could be some brand new, high tech weapon. Or it could be that people just get headaches and tinnitus, and we’re overreacting.