I found a file of search results I had compiled a long time ago as I was writing scripts to automatically scrape sites based on patterns. This experiment had to do with the Butterfly Effect, testing some regular expressions around a butterfly flaps its wings in...
The Butterfly Effect meme itself is invariant, but the variation in locations and effects is entertaining. My file of results notes that I did these searches using AltaVista - so that dates it a bit!
Here are a few of the results:
|
A butterfly flaps its wings in: |
Causing: |
At this location: |
|---|---|---|
|
a certain part of the world |
a storm |
the other side of the world |
|
Africa |
tsunami |
Japan |
|
Amazonian rainforest |
earthquake |
the other side of the world |
|
Asian rain forest |
hurricane |
Gulf of Mexico |
|
Australia |
the weather |
Alaska |
|
Beijing |
stock market flounders |
Wall Street |
|
Beijing |
the weather |
New York City, but more likely, Queens |
|
Beijing |
win $400,000 |
Montreal Casino |
|
Beijing |
the weather |
Latin America |
|
Beijing |
the weather |
New York City |
|
Brazil |
thunderstorms |
New York |
|
Brazil |
devastating storms and floods |
England |
|
Brazil |
hurricane |
North America |
|
Brazil |
storm |
Norway |
|
Brazil |
man falls off a skyscraper |
New York |
|
Brazil |
thunderstorms |
New York |
|
California |
rain |
New York City |
|
Canada |
some impact on the weather |
south of the border |
|
Canada |
hurricane |
south Atlantic |
|
Central American |
the amount of |
Chicago |
|
Central Park |
typhoon |
Pacific Ocean |
|
Central Park |
rain |
China |
|
Central Park |
rain |
Peking |
|
Central Park |
rain |
China |
|
China |
hurricane |
Florida |
|
China |
Startup error goes away |
Descent 3 |
|
China |
the weather |
New York |
|
China |
hurricane |
the Atlantic |
|
China |
enough boomers move their funds to the bond market to cause the third derivative of some program's equation for the market to move from positive to negative |
? |
|
China |
rain |
New York |
|
England |
typhoon |
China |
|
far-away continent |
a development of a major unstable weather pattern |
half way around the |
|
Hong Kong |
hurricane |
London |
|
Hong Kong |
snow |
Miami |
|
Hong Kong |
Internet stocks go |
? |
|
Hong Kong |
effects |
Chicago |
|
Hong Kong |
hurricane |
Gulf of Mexico |
|
Japan |
the weather |
Philadelphia |
|
Madagascar |
the weather |
Cape Town |
|
Malaysia |
hurricane |
Trinidad |
|
Mexico |
hurricane |
Florida |
|
New Mexico |
rain storm |
the Amazon |
|
New York |
hurricane |
Japan |
|
one side of the |
hurricane |
the other |
|
one side of the |
earthquake |
the other hemisphere |
|
the Middle East |
||
|
the forest |
typhoon |
Indonesia |
|
this side of the |
hurricane |
the other side of |
|
? |
trembles |
universe |
|
? |
moves |
the planet |
|
? |
weather |
China |
|
? |
rain |
somewhere |
|
? |
the weather |
hundreds of miles |
|
? |
an ill wind blows you a $100 bill |
? |
|
? |
something else |
the other side of |
|
? |
stampede of Zebras |
? |
|
? |
hurricane |
the other side of |
|
? |
the climate changes |
the other side of |
I originally published this in the late, lamented Clear Night Sky, which went away forever when a butterfly flapped its wings in the Amazon and caused my server to fail at Amazon.com's data center. So it goes.
