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March 15, 2005
X marks the spot
Look what famous "prize" is being displayed at the New Detroit Science Center. The trophy designer is from Troy, Michigan, so it starts its tour in this fair state. And this is what I did on spring break....
Posted by Deana at March 15, 2005 05:52 AM
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It'll be weightless if it's in space. Perhaps its more permanent destiny is the mantel in the first space hotel -- a round-ish mantel that surrounds the spheroid fireplace in which a glowing ball of gas burns intensely at its edge, heat not removed from the flames in the absence of buoyancy, with vortices generated by soft air jets and the ventilation system's evactuation flow. Now, what to do with all that heat... On to contriving a huge space radiator.
Posted by: steevo at March 16, 2005 09:24 AM
Drool.
Try handing that out at a podium...
"I'd like to thank the academy, my director, and all the... Christ, this thing's heavy!"
Posted by: Chris at March 15, 2005 12:05 PM