Monday, July 18, 2005

Cool as a cucumber

OK, I know nothing about science, but does it seem just wrong to anyone else that "on a hot day the interior temperature of a cucumber can run 20 degrees cooler [than air temperature]"?

Next time that summertime mercury starts pushing 100, just climb inside a cucumber! Kind of the opposite of that scene in "Empire Strikes Back" where Han Solo stuffs a freezing Luke inside his dead Tauntan lizard thing to keep him warm. Only, uh, minus the entrails and blood and guts and stuff.

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