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What's your fondest memory of the library? (self.library_haul)

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[–] barnsbauer 1 points 2 years ago

There are a lot. It's hard to name just one.

But off the top of my head, among them would probably be the moment when I was casually skimming through a volume of an encyclopaedia reading up on precious metals. I learnt that gold is so malleable that 28.35 gm of it can be hammered into a sheet spanning 9.3 sq. metres. Or that the same quantity could be drawn out into a wire roughly 80 km long, and gold isn't even the most ductile metal there is! Totally blew my mind.

Others would be the times I read up anything at all about astronomy. I've been fascinated by it since my childhood.