Around here, it is the Mayonaise People (spelling?) who take things.
For example, when I am making a sandwich I will open the fridge
and can not find the Mayonaise, If I ask my wife where the stuff
is, she can open the door to the fridge and the stuff will be sitting
right there, on the middle of the shelf, in the front!
It wasn't there 15 seconds ago when I looked for it.
The Mayonaise People take it, and then they bring it back.
Same with missing socks, nuts and bolts, and everything else that
turns up missing and then is found somewhere it should not be..
Tom
Bob Oswald wrote:
> The secret to finding lost nuts is to calculate the maximum distance they
> could have bounced, and multiply it by 142.6868. NASA scientists have been
> investigating this effect for some years now, and believe that it is linked
> to antigravity. The often discussed "Oops Drive" shows theoretical
> promise, but the practicality of getting a large enough number of amateur
> mechanics to drop nuts at exactly the same moment, and then transfer the
> resulting antigravity energy to a spacecraft is proving problematic. The
> other problem is to channel the resulting force in the desired direction,
> since the trajectory of bouncing lost nuts is completely random. Garrett's
> suggestion of a parallel universe to which these nuts may sometimes migrate
> is not a new one, and has itself led to another NASA proposal: The
> "WheThaHeldItGo Drive", in which an entire space vehicle would be dropped
> accidentally, with the result that it would theoretically move through a
> wormhole in space, potentially solving the problem of true interstellar
> travel and also of time travel. This is very exciting, but there is
> concern that any spacecraft that attempted this could be destroyed by
> hitting large masses of lost nuts, or being completely smothered in the
> drifting piles of odd socks that are believed to exist in space wormholes.
> None of which helps Nick find his manifold nuts in time, but at least he
> just lost his nuts and not his marbles, which, since you're all so
> apparently concerned about aging, sounds as if it should be some consolation.
> This is the end of your Science Update for this week.
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