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Imagine you have a string that is wrapping around the circumference of the world. Add an extra meter, and then expand that loop so that it's (somehow) now elevated above the surface of the earth, courtesy of that extra meter. How far off the ground is the string? A micrometer? A millimeter? If your brain works like mine, the answer will startle you.
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Snopes has a possibly-apocryphal story (there's really no telling, but it's plausible) about a cattleman who decided to rope a deer, corn feed it in a stall for a few weeks, and then slaughter it. It didn't really work out.
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I filtered Boing Boing's RSS feed through Yahoo Pipes to remove any entry that mentions "steampunk." You're welcome.
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The good news: Republican Laurence Verga has "traveled throughout this 29 county district." The bad news: The Fifth District apparently gained seven counties when I wasn't looking. I'd love to hear Verga name them.
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It just occurred to me that the string-around-the-Earth thing relates to why even the slightest slack in a rope wrapped around a post makes it fall off.
Re: Laurence Verga:
http://www.vergaforcongress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63:verga-criticizes-presidents-new-a
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get one of the intelligent people to explain why that string thing isn’t so.
Bill, I worked it out for myself, and I arrived at the same result. You’re saying there’s a flaw?
Wow, I can actually go back to BoingBoing now.
Perhaps Verga visited the Obama Administration’s stimulus website to get his #s.
Although I still can’t picture it in my head, that string loop theory definitely explains why my fishing reel becomes a mess so quickly at the worst possibly times.