Check your pockets carefully—it’s possible that nearly half of our moon rocks are missing. According to Joe Gutheinz Jr., as quoted by the Las Vegas Sun, over 100 out of 270 fragments have gone missing. A retired dentist in Morgantown, West Virginia, has learned that his late brother’s effects include a moon rock. The Sun […]
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The giant slide rule went missing
David Brooks of the Nashua Telegraph reports: Information hard to find about world-record 320-foot slide rule built at Alvirne High School [This] truly gigantic creation – as long as a football field – was built in 1979, just as slide rules were being made obsolete by electronic calculators…. [It] was 320 feet long. Considering that […]