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ScavHunt211

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the insufficient-homework dept.

VoidEngineer writes "Well, it's that time of the year again... the World's Largest Scavenger Hunt has begun again. (This is the same annual Scavenger Hunt where the students built the breeder reactor, for item #240, back in 1999...) Anyhow, you can find the list here. This year, the competition is between 9 teams and there are 307 items. Nerdy items include, but are not limited to: #2 From the fetid swamps of Lotan to the teeming forests of Jojojop, Endor is an ancient, mysterious, beautiful land, deserving to be rendered as a full-color map fit for National Geographic, circa TA 3019; [51 points] #46 Mobius stripper. Must be non-orientable. Must not emphasize the one-dimensionality of the stripper's personality. [28 points]. #98 A piece of the Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA verification [155 points] #101 A hologram of an entire team member. [50 points] #136 Explain string theory using only sock puppets. The Judge must understand. [19 points]"

6 of 203 comments (clear)

  1. Well atleast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Item #94: Dead nigger in river

    ...wtf?

  2. Re:Bad taste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shut up, hippie. I'd mod you down if I could

  3. Sexist. by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A "mobius stripper"? Why is it always with the nerdy population that we find such blatant sexism and a desire to exploit women? Are you people still wondering why no women want to enter the fields of engineering or computer science? It's a hostile environment, plain and simple, and you assholes are the cause.

    --

    --sdem
    1. Re:Sexist. by zilly · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Who said strippers have to be women? Or could it be that you're the sexist asshole here?

  4. Re:Bad taste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You mean, all two of them?

    There's a word for that - 'both'.

    So, to apply your new knowledge, you'd say:

    "How come both shuttles that explode[d] start[ed] in 'C'?

    Then you would sign your name 'Idiot'.

  5. Breeder reactor by gumbi+west · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All right, they so did not build a breeder reactor. Even given the definition that anything that produced Pu is a breeder (which would make every reactor in the world a breeder reactor), they did not do it. You need U-238 and a lot of neutrons.

    While they claim that they observed emissions from Pu, this is not well documented and they may have simply been observing cosmic background or Pu desposed globaly from wepons tests or Am-241 x-rays