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# Pfft
read origin of teh species

//edit/ and did anybody read that thing in new scientist about one dinosaur being mental clever and hunting the rest to extinction? pfft mindpiss
(I helped save b3ta! KernKraft Gosh, there isn't much noise outside today, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 17:38, archived)
# new scientist is for losers
/like eponymous etc ;)
(I helped save b3ta! northernwifeb3ta is going to Dubai in December :D for "work", Thu 28 Jul 2005, 17:43, archived)
# ^ this
It's all about teh Old Scientist, with their four-page photo features on the germ-fighting properties of rosewater, backstreet dentistry EXPOSED!, and lengthy editorials musing smugly about what might actually happen if you did sail off the edge of the horizon.
(I helped save b3ta! grey kid is breakdancing to save a community centre, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 17:47, archived)
# i prefer ye olde scientist
this weeks comes with free leeches
(I helped save b3ta! mutated monty, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 17:50, archived)
# pwned!
*belms*

:)
(I helped save b3ta! grey kid is breakdancing to save a community centre, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 17:50, archived)
# I liked the one about the guy who had invented a space sailing ship
it had a sail that was 250km high and 150 km wide. It can't be built on earth but maybe one day...one...day...

New scientist is for people who need a new job - or have nobody to talk to at coffee break
(I helped save b3ta! swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 28 Jul 2005, 17:51, archived)
# And even that huge sail would still be phyisically impossible to fold in half more than seven times.
That fact fucks with my head. I'm always like "surely if they got a big enough, thin enough sheet of tissue...?".

And then I remember physics.

And then I cry.
(I helped save b3ta! grey kid is breakdancing to save a community centre, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 17:53, archived)
# are you allowed to use an iron?
if you ironed it after each fold can it still not be done?
I would try - but I don't know how to work the iron
/bloke
(I helped save b3ta! swaza I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. I'm bad., Thu 28 Jul 2005, 17:56, archived)
# Nah, it's to do with it becoming twice as thick and half as big each time*
which means it'll only fold seven times before some weird formula makes it too chubby and short to go over again.



*a bit like consecutive inbreeding
(I helped save b3ta! grey kid is breakdancing to save a community centre, Thu 28 Jul 2005, 17:58, archived)