the big bang
i was just now horribly embarrassed during a conversation here in the office about whether there was any sound in space, as i somehow convinced myself that even though space is a vacuum, there were enough stray particles around to create audible sound or something like that. anyone familiar with the "in space, no one can here you scream" tagline should immediately know that sound does not travel in space (or any other vacuum).
i consider myself to be fairly science minded, having scored a 5 on the AP Physics test way back when, so i was even more distressed with myself when i realized i was basing my argument on TV and movies. for instance, in my mind, i was using Darth Vader blowing up that planet in Star Wars, and the Enterprise gunning it to light speed as rationale for my position. that's just horrifying for so many reasons.
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you're going to get kicked off the neuticles.
Posted by: kf | April 15, 2004 04:46 PM
better than being kicked *in* the neuticles i suppose. or is it considering they're fake and therefore incapable of feeling? aww, christ.
Posted by: jamie | April 15, 2004 04:54 PM
Your scrotum and surrounding area would still be real and not synthetic, and therefore susceptible to pain. But I guess it wouldn't be nearly as bad as authentic nad pain.
I myself got a 5 on the Calculus AP test, yet for some reason I always seem to flub up the math questions Dr. Fact gives us. Maybe all the brain cells I've lost to alcohol in the intervening years have been from the math-doin' section of my brain. 5 beers plus 2 shots of whiskey equals WOO HOO!
Posted by: Jim | April 16, 2004 10:51 PM