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By: The Black Squirrels… are following me around the world? « An American Physics Student in England

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:40:05 +0000

[...] if the black squirrels are indeed another animal invasion to the UK, they won’t be the only ones of recent times. Filed under: Expatriate Life, Just for Fun [...]

By: dorigo

dorigo — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:08:52 +0000

Hi Blondie,

you’re lucky… It probably is one of those. Keep a note of the exact place where you picked it up and the date, and you can probably sell the thing on ebay for some hundreds.

Cheers,
T.

By: Blondie

Blondie — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:45:29 +0000

Hi, I just found a plastic duck on a North Devon beach but it just says china on the side – is this one of the First Years inc ones or just a coincidence??
Blondie

By: Bee

Bee — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:47:01 +0000

Gee, looks like the stringy duck!

http://discovermagazine.com/twominutesorless/

By: dorigo

dorigo — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:25:02 +0000

Hi Piero,

I changed my name in your comment to avoid confusion.
Yes, I also saw your blog with the story after I posted this. I like to imagine the same happening to a spaceship carrying a cargo of third-generation GPS receivers a hundred years from now, between Earth and Mars. Now _that_ would be interesting.
Cheers,
T.

By: zerocold

zerocold — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:55:59 +0000

I posted the same on my blog., Tommaso. What amazing story! I also noticed that this travel has been as an exercise on motion in one of the best teaching book. The book is “Physic” by James S. Walker. In fact we always forgot that we live on a planet who is fluid by the 80% so when you throw something on the water you don’t know when It will come back…
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