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It always struck me as slightly sad, and maybe even slightly poetic, that the guy starting the experiment died only months before the eight drop fell in 2014.
by isoprophlex 4y ago
It always struck me as slightly sad, and maybe even slightly poetic, that the guy starting the experiment died only months before the eight drop fell in 2014.
- proactivesvcs 4y ago"In 1988, with the experiment proudly displayed at Brisbane's World Expo, Prof Mainstone was fetching a drink when the seventh drop fell. By 2000, a video camera had been set up to capture drop number eight, but it malfunctioned at the crucial moment." Taken from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28402709 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28402709 I imagine he took this with the sort of humour that such a custodian would adopt for such an experiment!