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The Story of My As-Yet-Unverified Impact Crater
tetrahedrassface writes "When I was very young, my dad took me on a trip to his parents' farm. He wanted to show me 'The Crater.' We walked a long way through second generation hardwoods and finally stood on the rim of a hole that has no equal in this area. As I grew up, I became more interested in The Crater, and would always tell friends about it. It is roughly 1,200 feet across and 120 feet deep, and has a strange vibe about it. When you walk up to it, you feel like something really big happened here. Either the mother of all caves is down there, or a large object smashed into this place a long, long time ago. I bought aerial photos when I was twelve and later sent images from GIS to a geologist at a local university. He pretty much laughed me out of his office, saying that it was a sinkhole. He did wish me luck, however. It may be sinkhole. Who knows? Last week I borrowed a metal detector and went poking around, and have found the strangest shrapnel pieces I have ever seen. They are composed of a metal that reacts strongly to acids. The largest piece so far reacted with tap water and dish-washing detergent. My second trip today yielded lots of strange new pieces of metal, and hopefully, one day the truth will be known. Backyard science is so much fun. And who knows; if it is indeed a cave, maybe Cerberus resides there."
I'm kindof afraid that your backyard is going to become the first physical place to be slashdotted.
They'll just say it's a sinkhole or something, then insist that Global Warming is real and then pretend The Earth is really much older than the 6000 years old we all know it to be and that we all evolved from monkeys and that The Earth really goes around the sun, and that pi is bigger than 3. I wouldn't believe a scientist!
(Sorry. Am I being too mean here?)
(Sorry. Am I being too mean here?)
Only if the strawman is sentient.
Be wary of any facts that confirm your opinion.
and that pi is bigger than 3.
pi is bigger than 3, it's 3.141592654
My father was a strawman, you insensitive clod!
The details are trivial and useless; The reasons, as always, purely human ones.
No, really - I rubbed the thing with detergent and it bubbled like crazy! And the more I rubbed the more bubbles formed! Clearly there's SOME SORT of chemical reaction going on.
A Justin Wilson joke:
A Cajun sends his son off to college. When the kid comes home for Spring break, the Cajun asks his son "so, whad'ya larn, boy?"
The son thinks a minute and says "Pi R square."
The old man is indignant. "What kind o' tomfoolery is they teachin' you, boy? Pie are round, cornbread are square!"
Free Martian Whores!
I suggest you take a Geiger counter with you on your next trip to the crater before you go mucking about too much there.
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I read this thread with an incredulous look on my face - did the summary change, or did *all these people* really not even read the summary? :)
He wasn't apologizing for his language; only lamenting its shape!
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