Friday, March 31, 2023

The Jerusalem Post asteroid phenomenon

AC has been posting these headlines as they appear, but I think you have to have them all together in one place to get the full effect:


What's going on, and what happened in June 2022? Is it comms? Did their asteroid editor have a psychotic break? Has their asteroid editor been replaced by an AI? I don't have any theories, but it's certainly strange.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would bet a asteroid the size of Mia Khalifa that its comms. Who would describe an astroid as the size of 14 flamingos oe 27 pandas unless that were code?

ben said...

Might be trying to make the asteroid reporting more interesting. I mean how do you report on routine asteroids in an interesting way?

His article says platypus can swim at 1 m/s. That's pretty fast. But not as fast as an asteroid!

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2020/07/eight-lyouns-and-hundred-egles.html

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

If it’s a code, the geographic specificity of so many of the animals — pandas, platypuses, borzoi dogs, American alligators — must mean something.

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