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New Scientist reports that an article in London newspaper The Daily Telegraph about the first images from the European Space Agency's orbiting Planck observatory ended with the paragraph: 'The telescope is looking at the heat left behind by the big bang. It is a job comparable to measuring the body heat of a rabbit sitting on the moon.'
Peter Abrahams is frustrated by the lack of clarity of this statement and wants to see what he calls the lunalapin 'defined more precisely with regard to the size of the rabbit, the colour of rabbit, and whether it is in sunlight or shade.' Only then is he prepared to decide 'if 1 lunalapin is an accurate measure of the sensitivity of the observatory.'
We are in a position to know the vital statistics of the rabbit on the moon: Weight: 3 lb (1.4 kg) Length: 16 in. (41 cm) Fur Color: Grayish brown on top and white underneath. Habitat: Both sun and shade.
Gordon Meyer writes:
Yes! I'm sure this is exactly what was meant by "on the moon." Thanks for
the nifty composition.
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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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"Ah, the spoon, the perfect
spoon! In its mystic bowl all men
are one, and so are all women.
Champagne and shoulders, poetry and long scarves, loftiness, altruism, souls,
hard work, conscience, sacrifice, all fuse into perfect oneness in the
spoon. All Whitman’s Songs of
Himself and Other People lie in the hollow of a spoon. If you seek the Infinite and the
Nirvana, look not to death nor the after-life, nor yet to pure abstraction: but
into the hollow spoon.” — D. H. Lawrence, Mr Noon
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| Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier |
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 In the film Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, which is funnier: the shape of Hulot’s car, or the noise the car makes?
Clue: This is according to a film critic.
Answer: the noise. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Jay Leyda, Voices of Film Experience: 1894 to the Present (1977), p. 455.
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Lens flare over Splash Mt., Disneyland, California. See larger size here.
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| Puzzles and Games :: Letter Grids |
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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 11
• 8-letter words: 3
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
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• awaiter
• caritas
• crappie
• lazaret
• marital |
• naivete
• picrite
• saltier
• saltire
• slatier
• veritas |
| 8-letter words: |
| • antirape |
• laterize
• parietal |
| 9-letter words: |
| • parietals |
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A new booklet by Prof. Oddfellow promises a mystic vision in one minute. (Staring at the sun isn't required; the effect will work with a light bulb.)
The woodcuts of Renaissance visionaries aren't necessarily beyond one's comprehension -- one simply must meet the visionary halfway.
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Yes, you may . . . on one condition:
"that you will learn chemistry." —Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1863
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