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August 7, 2006
Read once, Write many
Gil Grissom of Las Vegas CSI drills into the remains of Archimede's diary, featuring lots of smack about various Greek colleagues and babes, written during any of a series of famous bubble baths by which Archimedes is said to have discovered both buoyancy and the principle that ink smears.
According to story, jealous Christian scribes drained the tubs and wrote retaliatory remarks right on top of the original texts, thus inventing "tagging" and setting the stage for the South Bronx grafitti wars hundreds of years later.
Credits
Gil Grissom: Uwe Bermann, Stanford University's Linear Accelerator Center physicist, points to ...
Words: from a manuscript by Greek mathematician Archimedes at SLAC in Stanford, Calif.,
Gizmo: a high-power particle accelerator, set on "tickle", not "stun" or "kill"
Photo: AP Photo/Paul Sakuma
Posted by Malcolm Ryder at August 7, 2006 6:56 AM
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