TIME FOR A FEDERAL TASK FORCE ON GRAVITY

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KDKA) – New numbers show a record number of people were killed by falling televisions, furniture, and appliances in 2011.

(Thanks to Dan Barr and Bill Hudgins)

Comments

[MikeyVA]

Gravity brings me down.

It's a lame physics joke, but I expect raucous laughter from this blog or else. I teach physics and I know things......

[Loudmouth]

BeepBeep.

[MikeyVA]

No wait!! This is even funnier! F = G m1m2/r2

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Snort, cough, HAHAHAHAAHAHA!

[nursecindy]

They did a special report about this on our local news the other night. It ended with a heartbreaking video of a little girl who had been injured by a falling flat screen TV. Then they went to a Walmart commercial. They were advertising that their flat screen TV's were on sale. Poor timing?

[Steve]

Ah, the CPSC: the London Silly Nannies of American government.

[O the Umanity]

"Gravity makes all the important decisions."

- John R. Powers

[Mickie]

Upon hearing this news, ACLU lawyers are scrambling to sue Sir Isaac Newton's estate on behalf of the victims of falling stuff.

[Omniskeptic]

Hey, the standard model can't even explain gravity. How do you expect WalMart customers to grasp it?

[O the Umanity]

Omni' ... mebbe they'd understand it better if there wuz a substandard model?

[ken in sc]

Gravity has been going downhill all my life.