How does one measure the wind speed inside a tornado? Bernie Vonnegut looked back at an early state-of-the-art method, and wrote a report called “Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed” [published in “Weatherwise,” October 1975, p. 217]. Vonnegut told the world why that early method, which involved a chicken carcass and a cannon, may have […]
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(Rubber) Chicken in (almost) outer space
NASA reports: Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm April 19, 2012: Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school students in Bishop, California, … launched a rubber chicken. The students inflated a helium […]
Tastes Like Chicken
Rocketboom reports on Joe Staton’s study “Tastes Like Chicken, which was published in volume 4, number 4 (in 1998) of the Annals of Improbable Research: Staton is a professor at the University of South Carolina. A chart from his study is reproduced below. You can find a pdf of the entire article here. BONUS: The study is cited […]
Stefan Carmien joins LFHCfS
Stefan Carmien joined the Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), a sibling club of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) and the the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: I was previously the proud possessor of long flowing luxurious hair: I am now reduced to what you see in […]