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Alissa
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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