How cold is it?
As I drove into work this morning, the time and temperature sign at the First National Bank said it was minus 96 degrees.
Obviously, it is an error. We had a snowstorm. The temperature has plunged, but not to that degree.
The time function was not malfunctioning. The current time was flashing as it should.
Correct time. False temperature.
Now I would never report that the temperature in Iola was 96 degrees below zero even if I can correctly claim that that was what the time and temperature sign said. It was flashing those numbers, after all.
In some ways, the Internet is like that time and temperature sign. You can find just about anything online, fact or fantasy. After I have read things that I do not believe because they seem improbable, or I know them to be false, I wonder how many others might read the same things and believe them.
I’d like to think experience and alternative sources of information keep my feet on the ground.
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