Virtual Reality App Created for Middle East Peace Process Went Viral On First Day of Release

Middle East Peace-FNT-Small.pngJERUSALEM – People around the world who have been waiting patiently for the last sixty-five years, while the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) that doesn’t really exist has ground on, and on, and on, will be pleased to know that there is now an app for that. The Virtual Reality version of the MEPP app went viral on Thursday, the first day of its release.

According to its brainchild, P. Alex Schwimner, whose fledgling software company Aspirations Inc. created VRMEPP, the app was designed specifically to appeal to anyone who has been waiting for more than twenty-five years, hoping to see peace in the Middle East, and help tone down their frustration level.

“We thought it would be a niche market and figured, maybe we’d sell a few thousand copies,” he said. “One of our coders wrote it on the back of a napkin. Who knew?”

Schwimner said that he realized that, for most people looking on, the so-called peace process was just a deluded illusion anyway, so he thought: why not make it a little bit more pleasant to look at?

The virtual reality screen gives the viewer a choice of a number of peaceful illusions including an intimate picnic by a babbling brook, a quiet garden scene with flowers, bees and hummingbirds sharing the sunlight, and a tranquil, overhead panoramic vista of a landscape without bombs, fighting and other violence, viewed from a hot air balloon observing another hot air balloon hanging silently in a clear blue sky.

“I know when we’re talking Middle East, those scenes not very realistic,” admitted Schwimner, but it seems to be what some people want, anyway.” Source: FNT Staff

Photo credit: Original images at: CNN , The Guardian , Google Play

Global Media Reportage of UK Royal Relationship Pushes World’s Carbon Footprint Off Scale

Carbon Footprint-FNT-SmallPARIS– Representatives of the 195 countries that signed the Paris climate agreement are now rushing to get back to the city again, in a panic. They have been urgently forced to rewrite the accord, as it has been rendered “untenable” because the world’s carbon footprint has suddenly been pushed off the scale.

A radical increase in greenhouse gas emission has been traced to the worldwide press coverage of the romantic relationship and pending marriage of two of Earth’s seven billion people. The phenomenon has rung alarm bells in all corners of all countries, sparked riots in remote villages and induced hysteria in several tea-rooms.

A climate change delegate from London, Eiichi Furukawa, explained that it wasn’t possible now to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius anymore because the demand for newsprint worldwide had suddenly skyrocketed. Thus the call for the emergency meeting in Paris; to crunch out new numbers and recast the agreement.

The experts had determined, he said, that carbon dioxide emissions had spiked worldwide due to the continued global reportage of the UK royal relationship. Furukawa estimated that it just might be possible to keep Earth’s temperature rise below 3 degrees Celsius, but he hinted that people shouldn’t hold their breath.

“My daughter covered the latest story for one of the tabloids,” he said. “ And as I got to the airport this morning I noticed crews loading pallets and pallets of those newspapers on to a whole lineup of cargo planes, with her article splashed all over the front page. “I can’t wait to tell her. It’s all very exciting.” Source: FNT Staff  

Photo credit: Original images at: The Nature Conservancy , Cloud Energy