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xkcd #3267: Types of Tornado Alert (thelemmy.club)
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xkcd #3267: Types of Tornado Alert

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I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger.

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[–] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Schrödinger's Tornado: at any given location on earth there both is and is not a tornado

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Heisenberg's Tornado Principle: you can know tornado's position and velocity within error margins. i.e. you can know a tornado's location, but when you go to check it out it's somewhere else.

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