Having just read a book about two Pilkingtons, I’ve moved onto a book by a Pilkington. If you’ve ever wondered about meteorite jelly, keranography, or where your second brain might be, this is a very cool little book to dip into: Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science’s Outer Edge by Mark Pilkington
4 responses so far ↓
1 warthog // Jun 24, 2008 at 10:23 am
Oh good grief.
Me read!
Me read!
2 squib // Jun 24, 2008 at 11:27 am
If they’d just get a hurry on with teleportation I could let you borrow it. Of course I’d make sure I wrote my name on the cover
3 warthog // Jun 24, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Yes, teleportation. It’s all very naff …the progress on that. They reckon it’s still 50 years to the successful transfer of one tiny object like a pin and it will take the output of 10 power stations.
It’s more likely that nanos will come first and just copy it with a home production unit which will be able to make anything.
And where are these bloody holographic films we were promised 30 years ago?
4 squib // Jun 24, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Oh yeah I’m still hanging out for that machine that irons all your clothes that I saw on ‘Towards 2000′
Scientists these days, eh
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