“and underneath the moonlight, you'd want me even more / cause i’d have a jetpack”

[larryhammer]

All that, and Moon news too:

Chinese probe sprouts seeds on the Moon for the first time. (via)

The myth of the barter economy. (via?)

“Supposing that the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries, what would happen from the perspective of a person on the surface?” See also What If: a mole of moles. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from Jet Pack, Jill Sobule.

Comments

[shewhomust]

I loved the barter economy piece: one of those things that is so glaringly self-evident once you stop and think about it!

[larryhammer]

Yes. Adam Smith has a lot to answer for.