Fred and Luke were fishing on the side of the road. They made a sign saying:
THE END IS NEAR! TURN YOURSELF AROUND
NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!
…and showed it to each passing car.
One driver that passed didn't appreciate the sign and shouted out his window, “Leave me alone you nuts!”
All of a sudden they heard a big splash.
Fred turned to Luke, “do you think we should just put up a sign that says: ‘Bridge Out Ahead' instead?”
Vesto Melvin SlipherDied 8 Nov 1969 at age 93 (born 11 Nov 1875).American astronomer whose systematic observations (1912-25) of the extraordinary radial velocities of spiral galaxies provided the first evidence supporting the expanding-universe theory. Slipher spectroscopically measured the displacement of their spectral lines by the Doppler effect by which the wavelength of light from an object moving away from an observer will shifted toward the red end of the spectrum. Earlier, Slipher had determined the rotation periods of some of the planets by spectroscopic means. With Lowell (1912), he found Uranus had a rotation period of 10.8 hours. He also produced comparable data for Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn and showed that Venus's period was much longer than expected. |
