Or however that's spelled. That's a fancy term for a weatherman. Or a weather guesser, or whatever. They actually award college degrees for that, being able to guess the weather. I'm going to retire in less than two years and instead of going away to die, that's what I intend to do. I'm going to guess the weather.
Here in eastern Tennessee this week, we had a firestorm in Gatlinburg on Monday, tornadoes on Tuesday and floods everywhere on Wednesday. Did the guessers see any of that coming last week? Of course not. NO they didn't, and no human can.
One of the most fascinating things I've ever seen was on TV, a learning show about the weather. Our atmosphere was compared to non-linear chaos and there's no way to predict it.
Non-linear chaos. The guy on the TV show even set up a lab display to explain it. Put a beaker full of water on top of a burner. Start it heating up. As the water begins to warm, it begins to circulate. It's cyclical. If you could tag an individual water molecule inside the beaker and plot its path, you could work out an equation to accurately predict where it will be in the cycle at any given time, as long as the temperature remains constant.
Turn the heat up, it goes faster. But you can still adjust the equation to predict where the water molecule will be, it's cyclical.
Turn the heat up wide ass open and the water goes into a rolling boil. Game over. Bets are off. No more cyclical equations. Non-linear chaos. That is our earth's atmosphere, per that educational show.
Sort of like a day at work. But some folks get paid just to predict it. That's where I'm going when I retire, an afterlife of sorts. I'm going to predict the weather. Who's in with me on this? We can be a team.
Here in eastern Tennessee this week, we had a firestorm in Gatlinburg on Monday, tornadoes on Tuesday and floods everywhere on Wednesday. Did the guessers see any of that coming last week? Of course not. NO they didn't, and no human can.
One of the most fascinating things I've ever seen was on TV, a learning show about the weather. Our atmosphere was compared to non-linear chaos and there's no way to predict it.
Non-linear chaos. The guy on the TV show even set up a lab display to explain it. Put a beaker full of water on top of a burner. Start it heating up. As the water begins to warm, it begins to circulate. It's cyclical. If you could tag an individual water molecule inside the beaker and plot its path, you could work out an equation to accurately predict where it will be in the cycle at any given time, as long as the temperature remains constant.
Turn the heat up, it goes faster. But you can still adjust the equation to predict where the water molecule will be, it's cyclical.
Turn the heat up wide ass open and the water goes into a rolling boil. Game over. Bets are off. No more cyclical equations. Non-linear chaos. That is our earth's atmosphere, per that educational show.
Sort of like a day at work. But some folks get paid just to predict it. That's where I'm going when I retire, an afterlife of sorts. I'm going to predict the weather. Who's in with me on this? We can be a team.
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