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The Science of a Bottomless Pit
StartsWithABang writes It's the ultimate dream of many children with time on their hands and their first leisurely attempt at digging: to go clear through the Earth to the other side, creating a bottomless pit. Most of us don't get very far in practice, but in theory, it should be possible to construct one, and consider what would happen to a very clever test subject who took all the proper precautions, and jumped right in. Here's what you would have to do to travel clear through the Earth, come out the other side, and make the return trip to right back where you started.
No. In today's university, the entire first undergraduate semester is spent on sensitivity awareness, wymyn's studies, black history, and overcoming white privilege.
Another heartfelt cry for help from the front line of the battle to defend that most disadvantaged of classes, the wealthy, white, Hooray Henry.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it