Monday, January 24, 2005
Darwin
Have you ever wondered that we are tossing evolution out the window. All that survival of the fittest and stuff. I sometimes think we're heading the human race along the road to extinction - not that's necessarily a bad thing.
I don't mean just all the diseases and physical impairments, but of course they do mean something. After all, with my eye sight, I wouldn't last two hours in the wild. I'd not be able to see a predator heading my way until it was 4 feet away. Not to mention the fact that since I was an incubator baby, I wouldn't have lasted the delivery anyway.
I mean mostly just the sheer stupidity of people. This weekend is a prime example. Let me give just two examples of Darwin tossed on its ear. This is Michigan and it's wintertime. There have been blizzard warnings, wind warnings, winter storm warnings, and every other kind of nasty weather warnings since Thursday. So what do two of humankinds' finest do this weekend? They wander off onto the Saginaw Bay ice and surprisingly enough get lost. I haven't heard if they've been found yet. The last news I saw was that the search was called off because of bad weather - yes bad weather. Does it really take a rocket scientist to know that walking onto a flat featureless plain of ice in the middle of a blizzard is not a good thing?
Today, there was another news report of another genius sinking into a river after driving his snowmobile on the ice. Rivers are running water and running water doesn't freeze that fast. Add the fact that just a week or so ago it was raining cats and dogs (note: rain is not ice). Again this nuclear physicist must have figured that if the ice was dangerous to walk on, a snowmobile would be safer.
Come on people. You can get hypothermia in a summer time thunderstorm when the weather is in the 70s. What on earth do you expect when it's 9 degrees and the wind is blowing 30 miles per hour?? You're going to freeze to death unless you're very, very careful. We lost people in Alaska who tried to walk from one building to another across the street and they got lost and froze to death yards from a nice warm hallway. What the heck do you expect walking onto a frozen Michigan bay in January?
2fers: Darwin Awards and Darwin Award Wannabees
