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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago

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    Two sticks and a gigantic globe of plasma shining near-parallel beams of light at every spot on the planet.

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      That was just kind of hanging around there, so why not use it?

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      Also a dude he paid to walk a few hundred miles.

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        The Proclaimers?

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          no, one of these guys:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bematist

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            Damn, and here I thought The Proclaimers were original. 😕

            Edit: Thank you for educating, though!

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      Shit, I wanted to reproduce his experiment but I don’t have one of those.

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        Do you live in England?

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        I’ll have one delivered to you within 24 hours. Air mail.

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          Depending on the hour of the day at the other poster’s location, it can arrive much sooner than that…

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            I did say “within” 24 hours.

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            Nah that’s the package I sent them. The “OP sending suns”'s package is sadly delayed a little by between 0 and 23:59 hours, sorry

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          Perfect time for the GP to disclose that he lives at the South Pole.

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      Now I wonder what “Aaaaakshually” sounds like in ancient Greek.

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      Smh my head, scientists still don’t have stable fusion, when Erastosthenes was using it as a constant in his experiments.

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