three questions for you!

[nibot]

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION TIME

1. What are your summer plans?

2. If you're in Berkeley, how long will you be sticking around?

3. Tell me about something cool.

4. What is your operating hypothesis? (extra credit)

Comments

[shamster.livejournal.com]

1. Mad science, working for the Man, NIST.
2. I'm not in Berkeley, nor do I really understand what it means to be IN Berkeley. I'm definitely not IN.
3. When a massive star blows up in a supernova explosion, it sometimes reduces to a neutron star. The magnetic field of these neutron stars constrains electrons to move in synchronicity such that, when viewed from earth, they shine a beam of radio light that passes once every while. B 1257 + 12 is a rapidly rotating neutron star, and its radio pulses intercept the earth every .0062185319388187 seconds. The pulsations of these rapidly rotating neutron stars give rise to the name 'pulsar'.
4. The earth is flat when viewed from the reflections of a spoon.