You have to go back to August 2015. They were for sale in Hill Valley for $8200. Make sure you take a new copy of Action Comics issue #1. You will be able to sell it at Southerbys for around $2 million. That way you can get a hover conversion too.

Okay. I’ll settle for the Mr. Fusion and not worry about electrical battery range. Just toss in some mass and have it converted to electricity.

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They're always discovering something somewhere.

Scientists discover self-cloning sea grass that's 'biggest plant on Earth' off Australian coast.

A new study revealed that self-cloning sea grass located off the western Australian coast is actually one individual plant, making it the largest ever and the size of the entire city of Cincinnati.

The peer-reviewed study, published Wednesday in the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, examined meadows of sea grass that rested on the ocean floor in Shark Bay coast, located 500 miles from Perth. It was determined that the sea grass has actually been cloning itself for nearly 4,500 years but all that grass is part of one entire plant.

Jane Edgeloe, a University of Western Australia Ph.D. candidate and one of the authors of the paper, wrote that the sea grass is known as Posidonia australis, Poseidon’s ribbon weed. Sea grass is not the same as seaweed, an algae. Edgeloe and her fellow researchers scuba dove to pull up roots from Posidonia in 10 different meadows.

Tests revealed the cloning, with the DNA to all 10 spread-out samples proving to be identical. Edgeloe said 18,000 genetic markers were examined as the team looked for variations in the species.

The resiliency of the plant has enticed the researchers most, with it experiencing a broad range of temperatures and salinities in addition to extremely high light conditions that make it difficult for plants to survive over time.

The plant is able to clone itself by creating genetically identical offshoots. That process of reproducing is rare in the animal kingdom yet happens in certain environmental conditions. The process occurs more often among some plants, fungi and bacteria.

The discovery makes the plant arguably the world’s largest living organism, researchers said. Utah’s Pando, a clonal colony of 40,000 aspen trees connected by their roots, had been considered the largest individual plant by stretching to cover about 80 football fields. The Shark Bay clonal sea grass considerably larger, stretching about the size of distance between San Diego and Los Angeles.

The plant currently provides habitat for a wide array of marine species including turtles, crabs, fish, dolphins and other marine mammals.

Cheers.

Here's a good "pub quiz" question that appeared over a beer or two:

Where on the Earth's globe can you:

Move 1km south, 1km west, and then 1km north to find yourself at the exact same spot you started from?

Keep searchin'!
Martin

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Good thought but not the intended answer.

The problem has caught out the unwary navigator...


Next guess?
Martin

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BINGO! Yes.

That's one answer.


Are there other answers?...

Keep searchin',
Martin

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BINGO! Yes.

That's one answer.


Are there other answers?...

Keep searchin',
Martin

What planet?

Any 3d planetary spheroid you like using our earthly system of latitude/longitude.


Keep searchin',
Martin

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Here's a good "pub quiz" question that appeared over a beer or two:

Where on the Earth's globe can you:

Move 1km south, 1km west, and then 1km north to find yourself at the exact same spot you started from?

What? No further takers?...

For the answers:

One example is that as given by Zoom for starting at the north pole, moving 1km southwards to a line of latitude 1km from the pole, whereby you can move anywhere along that latitude to return 1km north back to your starting point.

Another example is to start 1km north of a southern hemisphere latitude that is 1km to circumnavigate along that latitude. Hence for that example, you can start anywhere around the start latitude, move 1km south to the magical latitude that is exactly 1km to circumnavigate back to the same point to then return north back to your start point.

Further, there are an infinity of latitudes to start from whereby the more southerly latitude is such that you make an integer number of circumnavigations along that latitude to then return north to your start point.

And yes, you can have a triangle with all three angles at 90 degrees angle!

All good fun!!


Keep searchin'!
Martin

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I don't know how that is a good pub question as I knew about it while at school, which I left at 15. Unless of course school standards have dropped. Or was it because our maths teacher was an ex Lancaster bomber navigator.

A better pub question might be;
What object do you speed up if it is ahead of its intended position or vice versa slow down to get it to move forward?

A better pub question might be;
What object do you speed up if it is ahead of its intended position or vice versa slow down to get it to move forward?

Lets just say that object is in free-fall.

... A better pub question might be;
What object do you speed up if it is ahead of its intended position or vice versa slow down to get it to move forward?

That's a classic dance of going orbital.

If the positioning is with respect to time, then that is a dance of Lorentz and relativity...


Is that worth two beers?! :-)

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Martin

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My favorite pub question is: If you dig a square hole that is 1 foot deep, 1 foot wide, and 1 foot long, how much dirt is in it?
I have seen people work on that one for as long as 30 agonizing minutes and refuse to give up.

My favorite pub question is: If you dig a square hole that is 1 foot deep, 1 foot wide, and 1 foot long, how much dirt is in it?
I have seen people work on that one for as long as 30 agonizing minutes and refuse to give up.

Must be the same dolts that if you tell them to "find the penny in the corner of a round room" they would try to find it.

The empty cube. And if you want out of the hole. Put down the shovel.

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My favorite pub question is: If you dig a square hole that is 1 foot deep, 1 foot wide, and 1 foot long, how much dirt is in it?
I have seen people work on that one for as long as 30 agonizing minutes and refuse to give up.

Must be the same dolts that if you tell them to "find the penny in the corner of a round room" they would try to find it.

Sounds like you met her.

The empty cube. And if you want out of the hole. Put down the shovel.

Very good for there being no dirt in the dug out hole!

There is still the 1 cubic foot of air... :-P


Keep searchin'!
Martin

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The empty cube. And if you want out of the hole. Put down the shovel.

Very good for there being no dirt in the dug out hole!

There is still the 1 cubic foot of air... :-P


Keep searchin'!
Martin

Not on the moon.

D-Day ration pack last in the world, Dorset museum says

A museum believes a D-Day ration pack held in its collection is the only complete one of its kind in the world.

An X-ray on the waxed cardboard box by experts at Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex revealed all the original contents were still intact.
Three chocolate bars, 10 biscuits, blocks of tea, sugar and milk and four pieces of toilet paper were among the items found in the pack.

I didn’t know until I saw this YouTube video. Darwin Award Winners.
So there is a small cure for the stupid.

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