Re: Pyramidiocy (was Re: Strange Maths)

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Alan Hughes (DND@netins.net) wrote:
: Just for fun I took two measurements from an everyday object that,
: according to enviormentalists, will be around as long as the Great
: Pyramid.

: The object is - a pop can.

A well chosen object. The construction of a pop can is no small
feet. Like a pyramid, an aluminum can is an engineering marvel. It can
hold very large pressures inside, can withstand great stress (you can
stand on one if careful) and wieghs only a few grams.
There was a fun little article in a Scientific American about
them a few months ago.

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Nathaniel Tagg		Physics grad student		University of Guelph

	"The chances of a neutrino actually hitting something as it 

travels through all this howling emptiness are roughly comparable to that 

of dropping a ball bearing at random from a cruising 747 and hitting, 

say, an egg sandwich."		-- Douglas Adams, _Mostly_Harmless_

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