(Image: Paul McDevitt)
Elephantine configuration conundrum
READERS have been commenting on that unusual unit of pressure, the elephant standing on a Mini Cooper (ESOAMC). Doug Cross wrote that if, as UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph had suggested, the pressure at the bottom of the Mariana trench in the Pacific Ocean is 8000 ESOAMC, “there’s only room for a single elephant to stand on the roof of a Mini, or indeed, on the back of another elephant. So they must all be in a single stack, 8000 elephants high”. This would mean a stack 28 kilometres high (28 April).…
