I can't believe Rontele has not posted on this historic thread.
I did this just last week in the Emergency Room of Lowell General Hospital after inadvertently ingesting nuts in a restaurant (deathly allergic).
After first puking dinner and half my guts out in the restaurant, paramedics arrived and carted me out in front of all the horrified customers. Then, while tied to a gurney in the ER with an IV full of drugs, well, I can't possibly match these other stories but you know what just had to happen.
I boiled my thermometer, and sure enough, this spot, which purported to be two thousand feet higher than the locality of the hotel, turned out to be nine thousand feet LOWER. Thus the fact was clearly demonstrated that, ABOVE A CERTAIN POINT, THE HIGHER A POINT SEEMS TO BE, THE LOWER IT ACTUALLY IS. Our ascent itself was a great achievement, but this contribution to science was an inconceivably greater matter.
--MT--
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