Gibbon checking Twitter and realizing that the world will end with neither a bang or a whimper but a “Really?”.

Compiling a list of things undreamt of in Horatio’s philosophy.

– Earth’s magnetic field
– Pulmonary circulation
– Telescopes
– Logarithms
– Laws of planetary motion
– Physics of gases
– Cellular biology
– Epigenetics
– Radio transmission
– Media-based limitations to the speed of light
– Calculus
– Bayesian probability
– Conservation of mass
– Elemental theory
– Extinction
– Electrochemical series
– Infrared radiation
– Atomic theory
– Heat engines
– Television
– Public education
– Electrical circuitry
– Electromagnetic induction
– Conservation of energy
– Absolute zero
– Voting rights for non-white men
– Evolution by means of natural selection
– Germ theory
– Entropy
– Photoconductivity
– Cathode rays
– Voting rights for women
– Piezoelectricity
– Liquid crystals
– Radioactivity
– Brownian motion
– Superconductivity
– Continental drift
– Atomic modeling
– Relativity
– Black holes
– Quantum mechanics and uncertainty
– Big bang theory
– The internet
– Antibiotics
– Hubble flow
– Caloric restriction
– Nuclear fission and fusion
– Information theory
– Quantum electrodynamics
– Vaccines
– Plate tectonics
– Quarks
– Cellular division limitations
– Pulsars
– Public health care
– Gravitation waves
– Polymerase reactions
– Extrasolar planets
– Cloning
– Neutrinos
– Grid cells
– Synthetic genomes
– Photonic molecules
– Gravitational waves

Anteater walks into a bar.

Bartender keeps his damn mouth shut because it’s rude to comment on aspects of a another’s appearance that they neither chose nor are able to change.