Comments on: Frankenstorm and the Dragon

By: Another Week of GW News, October 28, 2012 – A Few Things Ill Considered

Another Week of GW News, October 28, 2012 – A Few Things Ill Considered — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:33:19 +0000

[...] 2012/10/26: DM:BA: Frankenstorm and the Dragon [...]

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:14:09 +0000

@16 MaDeR: Back when I hung out on Fark, there was this one bible thumper who always showed up in predictable threads (anything to do with evolution, for instance). He didn’t even really join the conversation so much as he copypasted Bible versus. But his sig (and something he said repeatedly) was “Reality is that which doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.”
My irony gland got quite a workout…

By: MaDeR

MaDeR — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:34:11 +0000

“Empirical reality is what does not go away when you stop believing it.”
Rethuglican loon saying this broke my ironymeter. Again.

By: Reidh

Reidh — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:27:18 +0000

don’t worry phil? nobody thinks you aren’t PC. Everybody knows you’re a techno-weenie.

By: VinceRN

VinceRN — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 04:11:40 +0000

All this buildup, the evacuations, the statewide disaster declarations, over what is still a compound maybe, seems a little over the top. Yes, everyone should prepare, but they shouldn’t be declaring it the end of the world until they actually see the frost giants coming over the bridge.

(That’s not happening here of course, but most of the major news media, and the talking heads they are interviewing, are pretty much roller skating up and down Venice Beach with a sign that says “Repent, the End is Near!” (when I was young and rude we sometimes throw stuff at that guy)).

Hope everyone over there stays well, and I pretty much think they will.

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 03:55:58 +0000

So is Uncle Al a web bot or a PaulBot?
Or both?

By: Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:17:02 +0000

Sandy is aimed at the richest, most powerful, densely populated, furiously Liberal Democrat corridor on the planet. Utilities and food refurbishment may fail for more than a week. Imposed mandatory waiting periods for firearm purchase dictate Inner Cities’ equal rights they so enthusiastically pursue (with other peoples’ monies) will be upon them. Empirical reality is what does not go away when you stop believing it.

http://www.cocorahs.org/
Civilian precipitation measurements. Click on the map.

By: shawmutt

shawmutt — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:52:55 +0000

I thought the “Frankenstorm” was going to happen when it got farther north and mixed with the artic air from the north…

By: Theron

Theron — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 05:25:00 +0000

Well, my Mom, otherwise known as “Sandy,” now has her own hurricane. Otherwise though, this looks very bad. May it veer way to the east.

By: Frankenstorm and the Dragon | Bad Astronomy | Flash Science News | Scoop.it

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:57:45 +0000

[...] Holy wow, check this out: I grabbed a screenshot from footage on October 26 of Hurricane Sandy from the International Space Station: Yegads. Look at the storm center; you can see it towering above the cloud deck and feeder bands of the storm. [...]