>On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Richard Baker wrote:
>
>> Andrea said:
>>
>> > (Sure, I'd rather be a GCU or GSV, too, but with a name like this
>> > it has to be ROU....)
>>
>> I think I'd like to be an Explorer Ship of the Zetetic Elench. Or
>> perhaps an extremely sarcastic drone.
>>
>> > --
>> > Andrea Leistra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > ROU Doomsday Marshmallows
>>
>> That made me laugh out loud. Is it a reference to something that I'm too
>> uncultured to recognise?
>
>No, just an inside joke. A lecturer here once referred to the sorts of
>energies attained by a marshmallow falling onto a neutron star, and
>subsequently referenced them as "doomsday marshmallows".
And? How much? Megatons?
Brad DeLong
GCU Let's Make Some Really Big Sparks
