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It was mentioned in the context of discussing humorous physics Easter eggs, as the book's premise of a flat disc world on top of elephants standing on a turtle provided a unique setting for science-related jokes.
Oh yes by Terry Pratchett. Yes, indeed. What kind of fun physics can you think of taking place on a magical land such as?
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It was mentioned in the context of discussing humorous physics Easter eggs, as the book's premise of a flat disc world on top of elephants standing on a turtle provided a unique setting for science-related jokes.
Oh yes by Terry Pratchett. Yes, indeed. What kind of fun physics can you think of taking place on a magical land such as?
Terry tells all kinds of cute physics jokes because this world is literally a disc, but it sits on elephants and then there's a turtle that the elephants are standing on and it just kind of swims through the universe. So it's a.
It's not turtles all the way down. Right. It's just turtles one layer deep. Yes. Okay. So it's almost like a giant disc shaped spaceship that's going through the universe. That's what it is. Yes. And it.
It is. This is rough. It's a flat earth disguised as. But Terry was one of those folks that always told good jokes about science. Yep. I stole five of a second. It's all good. It's all good. Now, his humorous physics Easter eggs were good enough for me.
