GEESE PLAYING CHICKEN: V-FORMATION COLLISON

Bob Thaves, Frank & Ernest Comics (October 2, 2012)

"How about that? Geese playing chicken!" reads the caption of Frank & Ernest comics as two groups of geese in V-formation fly toward each other for a head-on collision. Readers comments at gocomics.com— Looks like a conflicted bombing mission. Many geese are headed for a swan dive. With that many geese overhead, I'd duck. Bob Thaves' pun was completely FOWL today! This could lead to some scrambled eggs and that special Moroccan dish: goose-goose. Dead geese on road— feathers, feathers everywhere! Professor Dupuy would love this comics of "geese playing chicken" when he lectured on "MAD— Mutual Assured Destruction" in missiles buildup during the Cold War. He dramatized this in his Stanford class showing a film clip Rebels Without A Cause in car-racing toward a cliff between gang leader and James Dean— first to jump out is a chicken! Afterwards, I realized how cowardly I am, always yielding to oncomers on the sidewalk. Now, I will not swerve aside for anyone except for mother with her baby carriage. Enough about playing this chicken game— Heavy-weight champion Muhammed Ali said he'd run from a thug with a knife instead of landing his knockout punch— that's courage. If geese are flying in Λ-formation and the Platonic Lambda symbolizes Soul of the Universe— what happens when two World Souls come in collision? Our neighbor Andromeda Galaxy with trillion of stars is twice the Milky Way and they'll collide in four billion years. Computer simulations show stars inside each galaxy are so far apart that the two galaxies will form a giant elliptical galaxy. So when World Souls collide, they'll not destroy each other but merge in love as One.         — Peter Y. Chou             Mountain View, 10-8-2012