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Robinson’s mathematician friend
Robinson’s mathematician friend is recorded in 1 distinct story.
An unnamed mathematician helps work out the excavation geometry.
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“You’ve got to create a funnel shape that will suck your bad aliens in,” my mathematician friend had said, “and then you’ve got to create an inclined plane that pretty much mimes the arc of descent.” He drew one on another sheet of graph paper.
An unnamed mathematician helps work out the excavation geometry.