{"id":7054,"date":"2011-08-30T17:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T22:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2011-08-30T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T22:49:09","slug":"todays-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7054","title":{"rendered":"Today’s visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today our lab was honored by a visit from Dr. Ikalu Taw’tute, developer of the antigravity drive on Pandora. As you can see from the picture, his hands are rather large, though he did a very good job of holding one of our tiny Earth coffee cups.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the Na’vi very much enjoy coffee. Their body chemistry is different from ours, and caffeine actually relaxes them.<\/p>\n


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\nDr. Taw’tute was kind enough to write down for us, in our own mathematical symbols, the underlying principle behind his anti-grav drive. I noticed that they use τ rather than π in their mathematics, which is very civilized of them. Unfortunately, the last part of the equation is cut off in the photo, so you won’t be able to duplicate the drive.<\/p>\n

Unless, of course, you manage to get your hands on some unobtanium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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