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Proof Is In: Kansas Is Flatter Than A Pancake

Posted by timothy on from the but-is-it-as-boring-as-hell dept.

plotdot writes "When motorists drive across Kansas with its expansive, fertile fields of grain, they most often observe that the state is flat as a pancake. Now, three scientists have proved that observation wrong. The May/June issue of Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) carries a story by Mark Fonstad, William Pugatch, and Brandon Vogt proving that Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake."

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  1. One of my all time favorite AIR articles: by emcron · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Testing the limits of the U.S. Postal Service:
    http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v 6i4/postal-6-4.html

    Worth the read.