you'd need the tube to have a series of airlocks that only open briefly to let the falling squirrel through or you'd just recreate the pressure differences in the earth's atmosphere
Nothing is too excessive in our quest for proper squirrel defenestration
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I feel like it'd be easier to construct a 50' tube and put a blue portal at one end and an orange portal at the other end than the colossal undertaking it would be to make a single tube half the diameter of the planet.
You're clearly not committed to us being able to accidentally nudge inconvenient squirrels out a window, ensuring that their deaths are rolled an accident, @Pinfeldorf
Today I learned that if you wish to murder a squirrel by defenestration your window will need to be placed at least 4,800 miles up.
This is due to the fact squirrels can survive falls at terminal velocity, but cannot, thankfully, survive starvation.
I think you can feel confident that they'll suffer fatal decompression from about 100km or so, you just need to make sure you're not also sucked out into the cold vacuum of space.
We could do that, yes.
Or we could construct a 4800 mile tube, full it with air and earth like gravity and resume defenestrating squirrels so that they stave to death just before impact
BRB, outlining plans for squirrel space elevator complex in the Australian Outback.
The problem with that is, to the best of my knowledge, Australia doesn't have squirrels.
I'm just saying, if we're going to have to ship squirrels to Australia for a proper death by defenestration, why not just ship them ground so they starve before they get there?
Today I learned that if you wish to murder a squirrel by defenestration your window will need to be placed at least 4,800 miles up.
This is due to the fact squirrels can survive falls at terminal velocity, but cannot, thankfully, survive starvation.
I think you can feel confident that they'll suffer fatal decompression from about 100km or so, you just need to make sure you're not also sucked out into the cold vacuum of space.
We could do that, yes.
Or we could construct a 4800 mile tube, full it with air and earth like gravity and resume defenestrating squirrels so that they stave to death just before impact
BRB, outlining plans for squirrel space elevator complex in the Australian Outback.
The problem with that is, to the best of my knowledge, Australia doesn't have squirrels.
I'm just saying, if we're going to have to ship squirrels to Australia for a proper death by defenestration, why not just ship them ground so they starve before they get there?
Too obvious that it was intentinal murder. If they just fall out a window... we cant be blamed!
The custom was first recorded in 1800, with subsequent accounts of it being produced into the early twentieth century. According to these, the Mari Lwyd was a tradition performed at Christmas time by groups of men who would accompany the horse on its travels around the local area, and although the makeup of such groups varied, they typically included an individual to carry the horse, a leader, and individuals dressed as stock characters such as Punch and Judy. The men would carry the Mari Lwyd to local houses, where they would request entry through the medium of song. The householders would be expected to deny them entry, again through song, and the two sides would continue their responses to one another in this manner. If the householders eventually relented, then the team would be permitted entry and given food and drink.
The custom was first recorded in 1800, with subsequent accounts of it being produced into the early twentieth century. According to these, the Mari Lwyd was a tradition performed at Christmas time by groups of men who would accompany the horse on its travels around the local area, and although the makeup of such groups varied, they typically included an individual to carry the horse, a leader, and individuals dressed as stock characters such as Punch and Judy. The men would carry the Mari Lwyd to local houses, where they would request entry through the medium of song. The householders would be expected to deny them entry, again through song, and the two sides would continue their responses to one another in this manner. If the householders eventually relented, then the team would be permitted entry and given food and drink.
So, wassailing/caroling with extra steps and a horse carcass?
Sounds appropriately Welsh to me.
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I'd argue that my state's current governor has an ever more white name of Pete Ricketts.
Also Paddock was not governor of Nebraska. He was secretary of the Nebraska Territory and lost the race to be the first governor.
Okay now I'm looking at this list of state governors and there are SO many more white person names on here.
Ashton C. Shallenberger
Ezra P. Savage
Albinus Nance
Silas Garber AND Silas A. Holcomb
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Okay, this is insane.
So, back in the 1930's, the dude who created cryptic crosswords and one of the most popular puzzlers in the world, wrote a murder novel. And made a puzzle out of it.
The conceit of Cain’s Jawbone is both simple and intimidating: According to an epigraph at the front of the book, the slim volume’s pages have been accidentally printed out of order, and it’s up to the reader to the find the correct pagination. There are millions upon millions of possible combinations, but only one arrangement of pages is correct. Finding it will supposedly help the would-be solver identify six murder victims and their killers—provided they can sort out the story’s seemingly endless tangle of obscure literary and historical references, each of which could either be an important clue or a red herring.
The puzzle within the book is so feindishly hard that there are only 4 known people who have solved the puzzle in the last 90 years. 3 solvers back when it was first published, and one modern crossword writer last year, who had originally dismissed it as too hard to solve -“The only way I'd even have a shot at it was if I were for some bizarre reason trapped in my own home for months on end, with nowhere to go and no-one to see”. That damned 2020 monkey's paw strikes again.
Anyway, it was republished a couple years ago and has reached some prominence on social media after someone started posting their progress and murder wall on TikTok, but the whole thing is absolutely mad.
The shrimp in the tank ate it after I poked it to see what would happen while I was house-sitting. It broke open pretty easily, and more importantly, my friends I was house sitting for didn't notice.
Keep an eye out for his rookie card, if you can find one where the corners haven't chipped off the clay tablet you can swap it at the crossroads in exchange for mastery over the blues guitar.
I found his rookie card but the corners were chipped and "someone" drew a mustache on it. I traded it to the devil for mastery over the ska guitar.
Does the wallpaper release arsenic, or is it like lead or asbestos - only dangerous if you rub it on you or eat it.
“Kedzie argued (correctly, we now know) that arsenical wallpapers shed microscopic dust particles that can be inhaled or ingested. In the preface to Shadows, he warns that arsenic can kill not only by “sudden and violent destruction of life” but by slow, chronic poisoning, a mysterious and lingering illness that might baffle sufferer and physician alike. He wrote of women taking ill and withdrawing into their wallpapered bedrooms to recover, not knowing that all the while they were inhaling “an air loaded with the breath of death.””
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The problem with that is, to the best of my knowledge, Australia doesn't have squirrels.
I'm just saying, if we're going to have to ship squirrels to Australia for a proper death by defenestration, why not just ship them ground so they starve before they get there?
Too obvious that it was intentinal murder. If they just fall out a window... we cant be blamed!
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So, wassailing/caroling with extra steps and a horse carcass?
Sounds appropriately Welsh to me.
Also Paddock was not governor of Nebraska. He was secretary of the Nebraska Territory and lost the race to be the first governor.
Okay now I'm looking at this list of state governors and there are SO many more white person names on here.
Ashton C. Shallenberger
Ezra P. Savage
Albinus Nance
Silas Garber AND Silas A. Holcomb
So, back in the 1930's, the dude who created cryptic crosswords and one of the most popular puzzlers in the world, wrote a murder novel. And made a puzzle out of it.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/653534/cains-jawbone-book-puzzle
The puzzle within the book is so feindishly hard that there are only 4 known people who have solved the puzzle in the last 90 years. 3 solvers back when it was first published, and one modern crossword writer last year, who had originally dismissed it as too hard to solve -“The only way I'd even have a shot at it was if I were for some bizarre reason trapped in my own home for months on end, with nowhere to go and no-one to see”. That damned 2020 monkey's paw strikes again.
Anyway, it was republished a couple years ago and has reached some prominence on social media after someone started posting their progress and murder wall on TikTok, but the whole thing is absolutely mad.
I don't think I'd be able to, but it might be fun to try
Not me, my avatar: John Finnemore
As well as being a crossword compiler he's a wonderfully funny radio sketch show and sitcom writer and I urge you all to listen to his stuff
Which is unfortunately silent on the information I went looking for: can I eat it?
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
You can eat anything at least once.
As a rule, don't eat the same thing twice. It's never as good the second time, no matter what your dog thinks.
So if you're a shrimp, yes, you can eat it.
I found his rookie card but the corners were chipped and "someone" drew a mustache on it. I traded it to the devil for mastery over the ska guitar.
Now I have buyer's remorse.
ORB
John Bly will undoubtedly be about
I like the one that looks like there's a woman crawling about behind the pattern
“Kedzie argued (correctly, we now know) that arsenical wallpapers shed microscopic dust particles that can be inhaled or ingested. In the preface to Shadows, he warns that arsenic can kill not only by “sudden and violent destruction of life” but by slow, chronic poisoning, a mysterious and lingering illness that might baffle sufferer and physician alike. He wrote of women taking ill and withdrawing into their wallpapered bedrooms to recover, not knowing that all the while they were inhaling “an air loaded with the breath of death.””
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