🚀 go-pugleaf

This brings to mind a closely related topic.

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
report myself that the *sound* made by a similarly prepared Canadian pumpkin
when dropped ten meters to concrete is quite exceptional, if not particularly
illuminating.

While I have not done work in this field for some time, and though I have never
been acquainted with the literature, I'd like to know if any progress has been
made lately. Was there a pumpkin drop this year? What resulted? Is there a
corpus of scholarly publication on this worthy topic?

Leigh