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Re: amazing apples
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dana schloss <[log in to unmask]>
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Just need to say, Mike, your apple ideas are inspiring and stupendous.

If I had a pile of apples I'd try all of these right now.
-Dana


Dana Schloss
Exhibit Developer
Telus World of Science Calgary // New Science Centre Project 2011



On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Peter A Anderson <
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> Alissa
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> In days gone by, when people used just a sharp knife to peel apples, it was
> a common breakfast table challenge to get the peel off as one continuous
> strip with a ring at each end - and no peel left on the apple.
>
> This is rather off-topic, but apples often remind me (I am a geologist)
> that, if you blew an apple up to the size of the Earth,
> the skin in thickness would represent all the crust, oceans, tectonic
> plates etc. and most of the atmosphere - everything that we know directly,
> and that is above the Mohorovicic discontinuity.  It's a useful scale
> reminder, but otherwise irrelevant to apples.  Maybe you could use it if
> Mike Levad's excellent experiments are completed before time runs out!
>
> Good luck!  Peter Anderson
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