I was born 198 years to the day after Johnny Appleseed. The differences between us do not end there.
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9 thoughts on “Statistics Saturday: What We Found In The New 2015 Penny”
Nobody ever mentions the Mohorovicic discontinuity any more these days. I don’t know whether it’s just because it’s been forgotten or because nobody outside the oil industry digs deep enough holes.
I suppose there just isn’t quite enough digging ridiculously deep into the Earth to make people aware there even is a Mohorovicic discontinuity. I guess there is the problem that digging deep is … well, the boring stuff of going to space — all sorts of things that look like homogenous dark unless you’re an expert in the field — without the fun of people floating around and drinking spheres of water from midair.
I’m surprised that at least Wikipedia doesn’t list a book on the Mohole more recent than when the project was cancelled. I’d have thought at least somebody would have some snappy eighty thousand words on the project.
Did you notice that’s not even a 2015 penny pictured? The current penny design doesn’t have the Lincoln Memorial on the reverse.
(I was involved in a back-and-forth over a different version of this ad — with an even more clickbait-ish headline — at my job. I was on the “winning” side, that it was misleading and we weren’t going to allow it.)
Nobody ever mentions the Mohorovicic discontinuity any more these days. I don’t know whether it’s just because it’s been forgotten or because nobody outside the oil industry digs deep enough holes.
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I suppose there just isn’t quite enough digging ridiculously deep into the Earth to make people aware there even is a Mohorovicic discontinuity. I guess there is the problem that digging deep is … well, the boring stuff of going to space — all sorts of things that look like homogenous dark unless you’re an expert in the field — without the fun of people floating around and drinking spheres of water from midair.
I’m surprised that at least Wikipedia doesn’t list a book on the Mohole more recent than when the project was cancelled. I’d have thought at least somebody would have some snappy eighty thousand words on the project.
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Did you notice that’s not even a 2015 penny pictured? The current penny design doesn’t have the Lincoln Memorial on the reverse.
(I was involved in a back-and-forth over a different version of this ad — with an even more clickbait-ish headline — at my job. I was on the “winning” side, that it was misleading and we weren’t going to allow it.)
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I did not! Good eye. I wonder if it was the 2004 penny, escaped, that got pictured.
And I’m surprised to have any personal connections to an ad like that.
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