fortune on... sicence

[flwyd]

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. ... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
-- Mark Twain

Comments

[sandbar.livejournal.com]

with Mark Twain's fawnzappity wordplay, I'm always enjoying the wit behind the razor.

[directbetween.livejournal.com]

I wonder, will the Mississippi still be as wide when it's only a mile long?


Now that would be something.