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Article #4709Re: The Great Pumpkin Drop
From: Andrew Mullhaupt
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:48
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:48
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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. Strictly speaking, there has to be a flash, but it doesn't have to be very bright at all. Later, Andrew Mullhaupt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!iat.holonet.net!psinntp!psinntp!kepler1!andrew 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> Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY. Lines: 16