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Article #1401Re: Idiot Test
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1986 00:25
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1986 00:25
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> ....100% pure Canadian-mined nickel, mostly mined in Sudbury
> (you know the one: the acid fumes from the smelters have devistated
> the land around the town so badly that Apollo astronauts came here to
> test the lunar rover, because the area so resembled the dead surface
> of the moon).
Yes, but for reasons having nothing to do with acid fumes. The Apollo
astronauts trained at Sudbury because the Sudbury basin is strongly
suspected to be a meteorite crater. The barrenness of the landscape was
irrelevant, although this misunderstanding was so prevalent that the
mayor of Sudbudy (among others) took offense.
--
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Idiot Test Message-ID: <6538@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 19:25:54 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.6538 Posted: Mon Mar 24 19:25:54 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Mar-86 19:25:54 EST References: <1180@udenva.UUCP> <12158@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <3352@hplabsb.UUCP>, <2610@genat.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14 Keywords: money