In lieu of this article and this article about the literal miracles of modern medicine and technology, today I am simply going to post a poignant illustration of the point from explodingdog.

Asketh Google an ye shall receive!  I typed in “Death by Cute” and got an excellent entry on the new Hello Kitty AR-15 rifle.  All is well with human kind.

It’s for random articles like this that I absolutely love Wikipedia. Had you asked me before today if the US military had ever lost a nuclear weapon I would have confidently said no. Apparently, I’d also have been mistaken. And you know what else? I’ll leave this as an excercise to the paranoid, but there have been several so-called “broken arrows” in history—lost nuclear weapons. What do you suppose would happen if one managed to get sucked into a continental fault and then exploded when it hit the mantle? Or what if it just slowly released its nuclear material into nearby ocean waters—what would happen then?

I was just watching the end of Planet of the Apes and something dawned on me. If he finds the Statue of Liberty on the beach, doesn’t that mean that most of the movie actually takes place in New Jersey? Just a thought.