Figbrut Just Went Poof
Some Blog Postings are easier than others. For me this is one of these easy ones.
First: A 5-Minute Video about Green Energy that someone else created...
Second: Another 5-Minute Video about Green Energy that someone else created...
https://www.prageru.com/video/whats-wrong-with-wind-and-solar
Last: A Blog Posting I did 12 Years Ago...
Mission accomplished...Two Videos that will make you Think and a Blog Posting that will make you Laugh and then Think and then Laugh Again (Especially, if you read it again)
May 11, 2010 (Revised April 10, 2022)
Giant Sucking Sound (Revised April 10, 2022)
The Kingston Trio was wrong way back in 1959 when they predicted the bomb would do us in…
But we can be thankful, and tranquil and proud,
For man’s been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day...
Someone will set the spark off and we will all be blown away!
Activate your mind’s eye and follow along with me…
In 1859 "Colonel" Edwin Drake succeeded in drilling an oil well in Pennsylvania. It just so happened that at that very moment Zerk on the planet Zxnon was observing the Planet Earth (Zxnon calls Earth, Figbrut). Drake’s gushing well caught Zerk’s attention and he said to himself, “I’m going to watch what happens on Figbrut for a while”.
Over the years since that day Zerk has watched mankind discover oil field after oil field, dig coal mine after coal mine, pull up gagzillion tons of natural gas from way down there somewhere and take out of the Figbrut all sorts of things like diamonds, gold, silver, chromium, uranium, zinc, copper, iron ore, other gems of all kind, lithium, neodymium, silicon, nickel, salt, colbalt, graphite and potatoes.
The whole time he watched he kept thinking about whether or not those funny looking (no antennas coming out of their heads) humans down there understood the consequences of what they were doing to their planet. He felt certain that they did not understand the consequences because of the frenetic pace at which they kept sucking and hauling the insides of Figbrut to the surface. He kept on watching (Zxnonians live a long time and are known throughout the universe for their patience).
Then in Figbrut’s year 2067 his instruments picked up land mass vibrations from the Figbrut’s insides and, as he watched, the blue ball collapsed into itself. In the blink of an eye it was covered with smoke and fire. When the dust had settled the Figbrut was wobbling around its sun looking like a raisin that was about half the size of what it had been.
The Space Watchers in the other cubicles around Zerk’s saw what had happening and inquired as to what was going on. Zerk explained by using the example of a Peelquat (a Zxnonian cantelope) that had had all its insides sucked out. It simply collapsed into itself because there was no there there to support its outer surface. He said, “Figbrut Just Went Poof”.
I’m sure glad I will not be around in 2067.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
2 comments:
Did you make up Figbrut? If so, you have the characters and idea for a good short story. Why don't you expand this and write it? Pansy
I had an uncle once removed on my stepfather's mother's cousin's side that his middle name was Figbrut. However, I don't recall that he either imploded or exploded. Personally, I thought he was a little weird even though I never met the gender challenged, pronoun obsessed social science professor from Yale University.
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