Цитаты из произведения The Science of Discworld — стр. 20

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CherryVamp

16 февраля 2013 г., 21:37

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You can work out how much energy a kangaroo uses when it makes a jump, count how many jumps it makes in a day, and deduce a lower limit on its daily energy requirements. During a jump, the kangaroo leaves the ground, rises, and drops back down again, so the calculation is just like that for a space rocket. Do the sums,…

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CherryVamp

16 февраля 2013 г., 21:35

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Non-life is simple and follows mathematical rules; life is complex and follows no rules whatsoever.

CherryVamp

16 февраля 2013 г., 21:35

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Down Here the most evident rule seems to be 'There are no rules', apart perhaps from the one that could be expressed scientifically as 'Excreta Occurs'.

CherryVamp

16 февраля 2013 г., 21:33

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You can't breathe vacuum.

CherryVamp

16 февраля 2013 г., 21:33

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Does Great A'Tuin, the turtle that holds up the elephants that hold up the Disc, swim through the depths of space in search of a distant light? Perhaps.

CherryVamp

16 февраля 2013 г., 21:32

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Human interest in the nature of the universe, and our place within it, goes back a long, long way. Early humanoids living on the African savannahs, for instance, can hardly have failed to notice that at night the sky was full of bright spots of light. At what stage in their evolution they first began to wonder what those…

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