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This link about really, really long experiments is from the Athanasius Kircher Society, and I have no idea what that is, and I'm looking to you to tell me. But, for what it's worth, an interesting link to an interesting thread, about an interesting phenomenon. Did you want the answer? The oldest? It's this.
And then we can start another "what's up with Wikipedia?" thread a bit later (since I, like the rest of the human race, just linked to it). Really been pulled into the current these last few weeks (as at The New Yorker, The Onion, and now The Colbert Report (then click the Wikiality vid clip).)
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Somehow, that reminds me of the Museum of Jurassic Technology link
Posted by: wamba | August 2, 2006 11:48 AM
I'm not certain, but that experiment probably legitimately predates the other long-running experiment that I'm familar with but only by a little. It's the one where we increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and then see what the effect is on the climate.
Posted by: Mark Paris | August 2, 2006 2:53 PM
Mark, That's the best possible response, you got that. But I thought state-run media had debunked that experiment?
Posted by: BRC | August 2, 2006 9:26 PM