This week in environment news, California officials are baffled by some mysterious black gunk that kills waterfowl, while techbros in North Carolina and Mexico try to make sure that Skynet happens before we destroy the entire planet.
Mystery goo is mysterious: the lab has ruled out petroleum products, and also "natural" oils (i.e., it's not used fryer oil). Which leaves ... prettty much nothing. Silicone? UFO tank flush? Let the speculation begin!
The lab doesn't have a mass spectrograph? It should be pretty straightforward to determine WHAT the gunk is, more or less. Figuring out where it came from is, admittedly, a different story.
<i>Also the Turing test is just something that Hans [sic] Solo made up.</i>
Ah, but the Voight Kampff test is all too real.
Mystery goo is mysterious: the lab has ruled out petroleum products, and also &quot;natural&quot; oils (i.e., it&#039;s not used fryer oil). Which leaves ... prettty much nothing. Silicone? UFO tank flush? Let the speculation begin!
Or leaking breast implants.
You must be too young to remember the days of the Condor Club and Carol &quot;Twin Peaks&quot; Doda.
Have you not yet been introduced to DerrickWildcat? He (nominally) is often delightfully askew. Taking him seriously is, how you say, ill-advised.
Oh, Carol.
The lab doesn&#039;t have a mass spectrograph? It should be pretty straightforward to determine WHAT the gunk is, more or less. Figuring out where it came from is, admittedly, a different story.