“By the standards of today, crater research in the early 1900s was a trifle unsophisticated, to say the least. The leading early investigator, G.K. Gilbert of Columbia University, modeled the effects of impacts by flinging marbles into pans of oatmeal. (For reasons I cannot supply, Gilbert conducted these experiments not in a laboratory at Columbia but in a hotel room.)”
(Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything)
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You’re laptop must be very, very hungry. “Feed Me, Seymour, Feed Me.”
I believe the exact phase was Om nom nom nom!!!
“By the standards of today, crater research in the early 1900s was a trifle unsophisticated, to say the least. The leading early investigator, G.K. Gilbert of Columbia University, modeled the effects of impacts by flinging marbles into pans of oatmeal. (For reasons I cannot supply, Gilbert conducted these experiments not in a laboratory at Columbia but in a hotel room.)”
(Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything)
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