What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
latest from New Scientist
Fascinating: one day spacecrafts will be powered by loud sounds. 'Inside the engine, the acoustic pressure is high enough to pop your eardrums . . . it's louder than a thunderclap.'
