May 27, 2011

kids today

A 22-year-old Australian university student has solved a problem which has puzzled astrophysicists for decades, discovering part of the so-called “missing mass” of the universe during her summer break.

When I was twenty-two, I cleared fifty people off a dance floor.

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  1. Andrea Kremer on May 27th, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    But did you do it with Science?

  2. Deron Bauman on May 27th, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    Psychology.

  3. Michael Smith on May 27th, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    Chemistry. Specifically. Gas.

  4. Deron Bauman on May 27th, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    Psychology. Specifically. Fear.

  5. Sheila Ryan on May 27th, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    Can you still do the fear-inducing dance? Does it involve The Look?

  6. Deron Bauman on May 27th, 2011 at 2:49 pm

    They were only afraid because they were stupid. Which is why I did it.

  7. Sheila Ryan on May 27th, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    Well, they were stupid. I wouldn’t be afraid.

  8. Deron Bauman on May 27th, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    You would have been happy.

  9. Carole Corlew on May 28th, 2011 at 8:03 am

    Somebody commented that it was no surprise a woman found the “missing mass” of the universe. That he lost things all the time, asked the wife and she found them.