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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: The Great Pumpkin Drop
- Message-ID: <1321@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 16:48:25 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.192256.22490@sfu.ca> <1dhg2uINNdqa@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1dhg2uINNdqa@gap.caltech.edu> stieger@cco.caltech.edu (Ronald David Stieger) writes:
- >palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer) writes:
- >
- >>It has been a tradition at Caltech to drop a 78 K (that's "kelvins", not
- >>"kilograms") pumpkin from the tower of the Millikan Library at midnight on
- >>Hallowe'en to smash on the tiles below. I have a reliable report that a flash
- >>of light has been seen to accompany the destruction of the pumpkin. I can
-
- Sounds to me like time that we took this pumpkin to those mine shafts that
- physicists are so fond of. In this way the flash will sure to be detected.
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- Strictly speaking, there has to be a flash, but it doesn't have to be very
- bright at all.
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-