The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Trois

"Blue" is completely in perception, so it doesn't matter how a blue jay is blue - it's blue.

 

Why would they be blue? They are at the top of the AL East.

 

I should try to get the bird thread going again. Dog knows I've got plenty of photos on my phone.
https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/bird-watching-thread.681524/

 

Wow,
If you're looking for a vacuum cleaner....
https://www.sciencealert.com/record...t-caught-growing-at-6-billion-tons-per-second


It's amazing to think about what is floating around in that "empty" space that this planet can suck up that amount of matter PER SECOND.
If you could create something to suck up gold floating around in space at a rate of 1/millionths of this planet, you should be seeing any superbillionaire disappear from sight in your mirror

 

As Peanuts turns 75, inside the empire Charles Schulz created

 

3 pt competition...which one of you is coming in 2nd?

 

I liked Peanuts because it was ubiquitous. But it was like a mellow haha funny. My kids think it's mean! Lol.

I preferred Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side more.

 

For some reason, earlier today I remembered the cartoon Funky Winkerbean, which I probably haven’t thought about this century. Much to my surprised, it made it until 2022. Why, or how, I have no idea.

 

I liked it BITD. Doonesbury was the most overtly political one & was hugely influential

Now I only see them in our cartoon thread or on bluesky/Twitter maybe. This Modern World is funny & scary at the same time

https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/Tom Tomorrow

 

I always liked Red Meat. I’m hoping Cannon brings it back soon.

 

Bummer of a birthmark, Hal

https://indiandefencereview.com/rare-creature-ocean-off-japans-coast/

 

Celebrating Papa mio's b'day today....134 yrs!

 

Roger on that!

 

Maybe advantageous birthmark there, Hal

 

"The Irish man waits"



https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPdy1jHiL-w/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

This monster in ND over the summer upgraded to an EF5



Additional investigation by weather service meteorologists in consultation with other scientists led to the upgrade, mainly based on the damage the tornado did to a freight train.

The violent tornado tossed one empty train car nearly 500 feet off the track and knocked over several fully loaded grain hopper cars, according to the report. Its raging winds also ripped large trees down to stubs and inflicted “complete destruction” on one farmstead.

The last EF5 tornado in the US roared through Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013. Twenty-four people were killed and more than 200 were injured after the tornado turned the city to rubble in a matter of moments.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/weather/ef5-tornado-north-dakota-climate

 

They revised this based on additional evidence? Someone at the NWS is going to get fired.