What a great idea! I'm getting the legal papers I'll need ready now, since the copiers probably won't be working. I already have the polarized sunglasses - soon I'll be able to buy the Porsche to go with them. LOL

A pretty cynical response would be: Oh, the human race is so going down. (Or is it actually happening?)

The two photos with a jet positioned in the middle of the small area of sky had to be photoshopped - the jet added later to the original photo. The idea that the flight path was exactly where it is shown goes against reason. The very idea that jets fly directly over the middle of the sky area seems unlikely in itself. Jets can not be expected to take the exact, within twenty feet or so, position in their flight path as they are in the air, so how many hours and days would the photographer have to be shooting the overpass to get a shot with the jet in the "appropriate" position? And two shots have the same effect! In fact, it would more realistic if the jet wasn't near the middle, and perhaps only one wing and part of the fuselage would be seen in the photo, but then that wouldn't be as "appealing."

I'm hoping you took pictures of the inscriptions. Then someone here could translate them. If the photos are at an angle, maybe you could straighten them out in LR or PS. Even if they're blurry, we might be able to make out something.

Ah, yes, "The Great Courses." I've been buying them for years (since the cassette days) at their great sale prices, and have still not watched/listened to all of them. Highly recommended. They found a knowledge-gap niche that others have tried to break into without success. Most of them are available at the library, if people do not want to buy them.

What do the inscriptions on the monuments say? Do they include the years of the plague?

What? Me make mistakes? The very horror of the thought! LOL Ha, ha, actually, I call them my dunderhead moments. A neuropsychologist once told me that IQ is an average. Sometimes we're smarter than our IQ, other times, not as smart. Explains a lot.

Perhaps it qualified for the Darwin Award, because he was longer able to procreate. His gene pool ended that day.

I think wannabe would be more accurate. They wouldn't qualify for a real award, even Honorable Mention, because doesn't the Darwin Award include only fatal events? Maybe there should be a Wannabe Award. Yes, they tried to kill themselves, but failed, the losers. So we'll give them the Wannabe Reward, the losers. LOL

This sounds like it could've been a "thinning the herd" event, but they lived. I guess lighting a cigarette in a car with a gas grill that's turned on doesn't count as "egregiously stupid," just "really, really stupid." I've learned something new here about the upper levels of stupidity. Stupidity in general has a sliding scale to it, from barely-consequential stupid to cause-of-death stupid.

Plague is one of the scariest diseases, because of its history. The name is so ancient, that it doesn't even have a more descriptive and definitive name, like Ebola, Measles, Typhus, etc. After all, any disease that spreads rapidly can be referred to as a plague on its own merits. There could be an Ebola plague, for instance, if it spread far and wide fast enough, though people would probably prefer to not use that term, because of its historical meaning. The word plague can be used in other instances as well, as in "a plague of locusts." The word plague is scary, right up there with "coma."

Impressive. Anyone who can do that will never be in the "I've fallen and can't get up" situation late in life. I bet they walk around the house on their hands sometimes.

Unfortunately, Barney is not made of meat, so the T-rex would turn to where the real meat was, in the stands. Oh, oh, someone's head would roll, I mean, someone would lose their job if that happened.

Jaw dropping.

"How much clean air do we need?" All of it, IMO. Just a thought.

I'd seen the Mariah Carey quote before. Hey, being as skinny as a starving kid with your ribs poking out is everyone's dream. Just keep the death and flies and stuff out of sight, and we'll all be happy. I lost all respect for her when she said that.

Norman Einstein, Albert's uncredited brother, who actually did most of the work. Albert hogged all the glory.

I hate it whenever I wake up dead. It ruins my day.

Just goes to show - when you become famous, apparently a substantial part of your brain shuts off.

During the total eclipse part, when the Sun is completely covered, you can look at with the naked eye, as it has no more brightness than the Moon. I didn't know this until I looked it up. When the Sun starts reappearing, though....