Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 18, 2021

I’m guessing he was trying to disprove gravity by jumping off something.

How was I supposed to know that javelins don’t stay up in the air forever?

Hold my beer.

Epitaph for our exalted ex-presidunce: “Here lies Donald John Trump, as always.”

They ARE designed for that. But a physicist thinks that “something odd in the 5th decimal” is “broken”.

Well trying to break the laws of physics will certainly break something

Didn’t he know that ‘Hold my beer’ is a Law of Causality that can’t be broken?

Yeah, but he never studied law.

The universe has denied the accuracy of your position.

Physics doesn’t care what you say, Barry.

Alternative epitaph for foolish Barry the Republican: “Facts remain facts whether one believes them or not.”

Looks like Barry has taken his appeal of the law to a higher court.

Shot by the physics police.

And you had to name him “Barry”…?

He likely noticed the gravity of the situation a bit too late.

Sorry, Barry, but you were no Skyrim horse.

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I think Barry was trying to push poo up a hill with a pointed stick.

Doesn’t he get a Darwin?

I’ve always said that Congress should follow Kansas’ lead and legislate science by repealing the laws of thermodynamics. Because if free and unlimited energy is illegal, then only criminals will have free and unlimited energy

‘’Experience is the best teacher, unfortunately, sometimes, she boots you in the pants.’’

There is a reason why, we have Engineers and test-pilots.

‘’Frank, take her up, see how she handles, OK?’’

I’m busy testing “A body at rest tends to stay at rest…”

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and some other theoretical physics say Newton’s Laws don’t necessarily apply on the atomic level. However, if you are larger than an atomic particle it is wise to take old Isaac seriously.

So said all the Darwin losers just before they selflessly thinned the herd in favor of reason, and yet Darwin keeps getting candidates for his awards.

Well, if someone doesn’t test the bounds from time to time, can there be any new discoveries?

Cat uses up 1 of his 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W01240u1P_c

He was gravely mistaken.

“Hey, Y’all…WATCH THIS!!”

He insisted to objects COULD occupy the same space and time.

Poor ole Barry. Proved wrong again!

“Rules were made to be broken!”

This is another level of that “fact”.

Those tin foil helmets never work!

To quote Steve McQueen in “The Magnificent Seven”, "A guy jumped off a 10 story building. As he passed each floor on the way down, people at the windows would ask him, ’How’s it going?‘, to which he replied, ’So far, so good.’

We don’t mneed no stinkin’ science.

Idiots tailgating on the highway are aiming for this funeral.

Autopsy says he failed his physics-al.

Laws of physics? Sounds like socialism to me! /s

I’ve thought long and hard and come to the conclusion that my last words will be “….. aaaarrgghh.”

“There are many natural scientists, and especially physicists, who continue to reject the notion that the disciplines concerned with social and cultural criticism can have anything to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Still less are they receptive to the idea that the very foundations of their worldview must be revised or rebuilt in the light of such criticism. Rather, they cling to the dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook, which can be summarized briefly as follows: that there exists an external world, whose properties are independent of any individual human being and indeed of humanity as a whole; that these properties are encoded in ‘eternal’ physical laws; and that human beings can obtain reliable, albeit imperfect and tentative, knowledge of these laws by hewing to the ’objective’’ procedures and epistemological strictures prescribed by the (so-called) scientific method.”

—Alan D. Sokal, “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” in Social Text #46/47, pp. 217-252 (spring/summer 1996) https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html Sounds as if Barry took “the Sokal Hoax” a bit too seriously

He finally saw the gravity of the situation. It always gets ya’.

They are either heroes or morons. Usually self destructive morons.

I know a Barry who breaks the laws of physics that we are aware of. His show starts in less than two hours so I’d better finish up.

I want to see the other epitaphs in that graveyard.

Many comments on ‘’last words’’ … I am ashamed to say this, but, I believe my last words, in this situation, would not be suitable for printing in any respectable newspaper.