Tuesday, July 8, 2008

More Proof of Knowing Nothin




My friend Greg has introduced me to aerogel. It's a gel filled with gas instead of liquid; it's solid but super-low density. It's what is holding up that giant stone there.

Holy Crap.

I'm gonna go work on my dissertation now, knowing that it doesn't really matter that it isn't very useful or important or significant because nothing else is any of those things either. Do other people have these reactions to the strange parts of our world? If the aerogel didn't get ya, try this:




It's a narwhal, or a unicorn dolphin. Yeah. Mind successfully blown. You're welcome.

1 comment:

Jaymie said...

Double weird. Mission successful!