Well, it’s nice to be regarded as an expert, but my expertise only goes so far. To paraphrase Murray Head singing, “One Night in Bangkok”:
I don’t see you guys rating
The kind of play I’m contemplating.
I’ll let you watch, I will invite you,
But the spoons I use would not excite you.
Ah, someone invented the Sunbeam at last, 72 years after E. E. Smith predicted it.
And then they decided to turn it on Earth instead of the Bonskonian fleet.
In the interest of restoring harmony in the Munroe household:
Oh, and
They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.
“We’re adding some industrial flypaper to minimize reflection or scattering of customers who might complain.”
“Safely”?
You have to look at it from the block’s point of view.
You also want to be sure diverted customers don’t come out the back side of the beam dump and out into the rest of the park while still at high energy. Lotta eVs in 100kgs of mostly watery human.
You’d probably see a lot of chain reaction scattering with the others standing in line, walking around, etc.
And a “spallation zone” where non-riders can take pictures of their friends.
But if people observe the riders, it alters the system.
A competent accelerator physicist would have designed a circular water slide, so that the riders’ momentum could be boosted with each cycle.
Doesn’t have to be circular to be a continuous closed path:
“‘Oh no, the box is drifting out into the harbor!’ ‘Yeah, I wouldn’t worry about losing it.’”
Any reason for the number 1600? I looked up the first epirb available on amazon, weight ca. 500 gram. So the crate would be 800 kg. Dimensions 240 x 130 x 97mm.
240 x 130 x 97 / 1000000000 x 1600 =~ 4.8 cubic metre.
So very unhandy crate. Of course, it wouldn’t be loaded manually but be inside a container.
If the joke was funnier I might feel more ashamed for ruining it.
This is the penalty for not using union longshoremen.
… Might explain the fall…
Bigger than a fridge. Not huger than a huge fridge.
“Now, if it were the Canon wiki, it’s possible to imagine someone with a productivity-related reason for consulting it, but no one’s job requires them to read that much about Admiral Daala.”
“If you drill at the right angle and time things perfectly, your core sample can include a section of a rival team’s coring equipment.”
There’s a fuzzy boundary between core samples and biopsies.
Hilarious! The actual funny part to this geologist is the “boring intrusive that you always have to look up” (leaving aside the Animorphs joke), because it’s true. Takes me back to many, many hours of core logging…