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Seawater
“Ed, I can't go on.”
“What do you mean, Mel?”
“The water… I can take seawater.”
“Mel, snap out of it. We're in the middle of the desert. We're dying of thirst.”
“No water?… You mean that isn’t the ocean right over there?”
“No, it's the desert. Just sand and more endless sand.”
“No giant waves, huh?”
“Mel, you're hallucinating. You're delirious.”
The sun beat down. Its photons were brutal. The high energy particles must have penetrated Mel's skull.
“No seaweed? No ocean?”
“No, Mel.”
“Thank God… You know, Ed, I always get a little nauseous when I swallow seawater.”
From Guest Contributor David Sydney
Ralph, Frodo, And The Photons
Under tremendous pressure at the Sun's core, protons are fused together, and photons produced. Nothing can exceed the speed of photons.
It may take a photon 100,000 years to get from the Sun's core to its surface. Then, another eight minutes to Earth.
That Sunday morning, innumerable photons showered the park where Ralph threw a stick to his dog, Frodo. The dog retrieved it. Ralph pried open Frodo's jaws and threw it again. Frodo retrieved it. Ralph tossed the saliva-covered stick again. And again…
It had been 100,000 years and eight more minutes. But was the trip really worth it?
From Guest Contributor David Sydney
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