Friday office pub lunch
Sep. 28th, 2007 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sam_tConversation this lunchtime has covered, among other things:
Calculating how long a spanner would take to get to Earth if you threw it out of a space station
Martial popes through history
How to raise money on the internet
The Borgias
Pigeon-guided missiles, and other wartime oddities
The conventions of Dan Brown novels
What a cardinal's hat is called
The cost per pound of launching something into orbit
Joseph Kittinger
These were mainly in the service of working out:
(a)Alternative methods of choosing a Pope (front runner: The Pope Olympics)
(b)Whether it would be possible to cook a deep-frozen mammoth by pushing it out of a space shuttle (calculations based on assuming a spherical homogenous mammoth)
I like working here.
Calculating how long a spanner would take to get to Earth if you threw it out of a space station
Martial popes through history
How to raise money on the internet
The Borgias
Pigeon-guided missiles, and other wartime oddities
The conventions of Dan Brown novels
What a cardinal's hat is called
The cost per pound of launching something into orbit
Joseph Kittinger
These were mainly in the service of working out:
(a)Alternative methods of choosing a Pope (front runner: The Pope Olympics)
(b)Whether it would be possible to cook a deep-frozen mammoth by pushing it out of a space shuttle (calculations based on assuming a spherical homogenous mammoth)
I like working here.
