3 ms·
Also: "A chunk of helium ice would behave as a single, solid, oversized, and stupefyingly slippery atom, which may be capable of passing ghost-like through cer
by chad_oliver 12y ago
Also:
"A chunk of helium ice would behave as a single, solid, oversized, and stupefyingly slippery atom, which may be capable of passing ghost-like through certain materials. But that's another matter altogether."
- jkn 12y agoAnd Onnes hastened to make observations with the small container of -271°C fluid before it all evaporated away. He found it had a lower surface tension than any previously observed liquid, and just 1/8th the density of water. The modest amount of the stuff he had been able to collect behaved very curiously in general, flowing with strange characteristics and evading easy observation as if enveloped in an SEP field.
- fahadkhan 12y agoExcellent I glossed over this one as I didn't know what SEP was. I maybe wrong but if it http://www.acronymfinder.com/Someone-Else's-Problem-(SEP).html http://www.acronymfinder.com/Someone-Else's-Problem-(SEP).ht... its brilliant.
- mattzito 12y agoIt's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem_field http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem_fi...
- qq66 12y agoAlso: "he hesitated to go Dutch on the byline."