This one has been cooking for weeks now. Cooking at a temperature hot enough to melt lead. Maybe the author of the comment thought it was the magic bullet from the smoking gun that proves tennis is rigged. Turns out the bullet was a blob of molten slag.
"The hottest temperature on Venus is 462 degrees. When she (Venus Williams) wins it will be 462 weeks to the day since her last Wimbledon championship."
First, the temperature.
The hottest? Really? How would you know that? I read this and I mentally review what I know about Venus and temperature. It's the hottest planet, not Mercury. It has an elliptical orbit and no tilted axis, so there aren't seasons like on Earth. It's covered in gas that traps heat inside which makes it hotter...Mercury just bounces solar radiation back into space. Now I turn to the Internet to find out if I'm wrong.
Well there's your problems. For one, the top search hit is NASA. Truthers frigging hate NASA. Not just because truthers suck at science in general, but specifically flat Earth and fake moon landing conspiracies. So NASA claiming what I expected, "The AVERAGE temperature is 462 degrees Fahrenheit" can instantly be dismissed as wrong if challenged. They are the enemy, sent by the Prestones (the anti-Freezmasons) to confuse us.
Virtually every other site that gives a number for the temperature is in the ballpark of 462 degrees. And often in the Celsius equivalent in addition to or even instead of the Fahrenheit temperature. Who knows if some yet undiscovered temperature scale will provide the real numerology the Niptucks intended. It might be discovered by Professor Makinschittup. The Makinschittup Scale. Nobody claims to know the hottest temperature ever recorded on Venus. Even if they did, who's to say what the hottest it ever was. We weren't there. I like the one answer I saw the best to the hottest temperature on Venus question. It translates to, "We don't know because it's so fucking hot the probes melt after a couple of hours."
So the hottest comment was a poor choice of words. Average temperature would have been good enough. In this case hotter is 'cooler' than saying 'average.' The number was picked because it conveniently matches the number of weeks between Ms. Williams Wimbledon victories.
If she wins. They also said WHEN she wins.
Uh oh. They usually don't word these things like actual predictions, settling for an if scenario. I ended up watching tennis for the first time in decades. It is a step up the sports entertainment food chain from bowling and golf. I used to play, with some skill. But this one was a must see match for me. Never have I wanted to see someone lose a match so badly in my life. And Venus, in order to keep the fine tradition of numerology being worthless at predictions, curled up into a little tennis ball and got destroyed without much noise. Or racket, if you prefer.
As a former player, I do consider myself qualified to make observations about the match. In regards to a sporting contest between two fine players (as opposed to being rigged to suit numerology needs) it was a classic match up of experience versus youth. Their seeding in the world rankings is about the same. The first set was very competitive. When Venus didn't convert at double set point and ended up losing the first set 5-7 it was pretty much match over. Muguruza broke Williams' serve in the first and third games of the second set and Venus just didn't have the stamina to keep up. Emotional strain of the car crash ordeal didn't help, I'm sure.
Temperature wrong. Prediction wrong. And the author of the comment was proclaimed to be a favorite because he's always coming up with such great ideas. Three strikes, your out. This is why football and basketball are the go to sports for gematria. There aren't enough scores and stats in the others for much numerology.
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