Field guide No. 728
Square dust devil over desert
Weather, boxed.
On a flat, scrubby desert, a dust devil of orange sand spins up in the shape of a tall square block with sharp edges. It is very tidy for a whirlwind.
Field noteWhirlwinds go round; that is what a whirl is. This one spins with four flat sides and corners.
- Specimen
- No. 728
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A flat scrub desert, still air.
- Nearest existing relative
- A dust devil.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
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