Louie Gohmert has asserted that birds explode when they fly over solar panels. One would expect that any living thing would explode (or melt) if flying too close to the SUN (if they made it that far without oxygen), but his theory seems predicated on the false assumption that solar panels reflect the energy of the sun, when the truth is they absorb it.
He could perhaps quell the laughter by providing evidence. Granted it might be difficult to catch the event in process, but even evidence after the fact would do - some feathers, feet and beaks stuck to the panels with bodily fluids.
More likely than evidence of exploding birds, what you'd find is evidence of birds with explosive diarrhea . Nothing to do with the panels, just that in birds explosive diarrhea is a chronic condition. At least when they're flying over my car.
I assert that birds are in much greater danger of being captured by Right Wing scientists (yes, I know, oxymoron) to figure out how the avian species gets its shit to come out WHITE!
I suspect the truth is that Mr. Gohmert attended a wedding and threw rice. And along with admonitions from other guests that the custom is to throw it at the bride and groom (not the priest) he received more vehement admonitions that the custom is now out of favor because birds tend to mistake the rice for tiny white featureless insects, not knowing they would explode as the rice expands in their little bird tummies.
I can just picture Louie picturing the birds with the rice in their tummies and wondering how the rice could expand without boiling water and then picturing the birds flying too close to the sun. And then a little (solar powered) light bulb appeared over his head as he came up with the idea of a theory that would not only cover his ass by blaming the exploding birds on solar panels but own the libs by blaming the scenario on climate change believers. Thus feeding two dogs with one bone.
