Month: April 2013

Ticket to nowhere

“No I don’t buy a ticket every night. I buy a ticket one time, as long as it’s not punched it’s good. As long as it doesn’t have a hole in it. I done had this for 2 months.” If you never get on a train to get your ticket punched, your ticket will never expire. Some of the homeless people at Newark Penn Station have been there for years. One has been at the station for 19 years; another for 26 years.

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NK missiles fail geography

The paper map visible in that photo shows the Pacific on the left and the continental US on the right, with missile trajectories drawn from North Korea to a number of locations in the US, including Hawaii. The only problem: Missile trajectories from North Korea to the continental US fly over Kamchatka and Alaska… because the Earth is not flat. North Korea’s military probably knows about great circles, but its propaganda department obviously failed geography. Or perhaps the photo above depicts Kim Jong-un providing on-site cartographic guidance to his aerospace engineering team, and the problem will by now have fixed itself.