As An Introduction Back Into Regular Life
I’d like to recount the August 3rd entry from the Classic Dave Barry calendar:
I have been gaining weight, and you probably have, too, which is why you’re going to be happy to learn that neither of us is responsible. The universe is responsible. We know this thanks to a scientific insight that was had by alert fourteen-year-old Massachusetts reader Tim Wing. Tim reports that he was browsing through The Usborne Book of Facts and Lists when he came across the following fact: Every single day, including federal holidays, twenty-five tons of space dust lands on Earth. This means that every day, the Earth weighs twenty-five tons more, which means that it contains a larger quantity of gravity, which as you know is the force made up of invisible rays that cause all physical objects in the universe to become more attracted to bathroom scales. What this means, Tim Wing points out, is that “without gaining an ounce, people all over the world are getting heavier.”
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