Three reasons why the JT’s Shaft Trivia person can go piss up a rope:
- Insulin is produced by the pancreas. The liver has nothing to do with it. You don’t need a degree in endocrinology, just ask any diabetic.
- If you want to know how to divide up a Rubik’s Cube, be specific about what you mean. If you want to know how many cubes are ‘on’ a cube, count the faces and you’ll see there are 26. If you want to know how many cubes are ‘in’ a cube, add the center cube and you’ll get 27. Don’t confuse ‘on’ and ‘in’.
- According to the Mars Society you can get from the Earth to Mars in six months. You’d burn all your fuel doing it, so it’d be a one-way trip. That’s fine for a robot probe, but if you’re asking about a manned mission, you’ll either need to do a slow burn transit (which uses less fuel), or have fuel waiting when you arrive. A slow burn transit would take twelve months. If you send a robot factory ahead so that there’s a refill waiting for you, the mission time expands to two years.
Other than that, it was a nice night. We met up with some folks who were on my Sis’s old trivia team (the 4-Wheelers) as well as a bunch of folks that my dad recognized from his teaching days and his time in the faculty senate. Rob met up with us too, and we enjoyed many beers and some darn fine chicken nachos.
I’m going to have to take a shower before sleeping tonight though. I smell like an ashtray. My coat and scarf have been exiled to the garage for the night, and the clothes I’ve got on are going to have to have a trip through the laundry before they get brought back south. Right now, they’re the clothing equivalent of the hardened criminals who would become the bullies of the cellblock. Putting this sweater in with the other dirty clothes would only spread the stink around, making things worse for the comparatively innocent socks and undies that were forced to share the same bag.