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Monday, 21 March 2016

It's probably better that we didn't build this

It would have been cool, but really, really stupid.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160318-the-memorial-to-newton-that-would-have-eclipsed-the-pyramids
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3 comments:

  1. Gran Dan21 March 2016 at 11:59

    If that is built for Isaac Newton what do we build for Albert Einstein?

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  2. Rhys Taylor21 March 2016 at 12:03

    Gran Dan A giant version of this :
    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UdMIQOXzowQ/maxresdefault.jpg
    Except with coins it would have Einstein's coffin, reminding us constantly of how gravity is really just curved space.

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  3. Jochen Fromm24 March 2016 at 13:20

    You know the pyramids are really stupid as well

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