No. 5 - got milk?
I am on a Russian ship about a third of the way across Drake's
Passage -- that rather notorious body of water separating the tip
of South America from its comrade the Antarctic Peninsula 500
miles to the south. This morning one of my comrades, an
oceanographer, decided to conduct an interesting experiment.
On
the breakfast table was a Turkish carton of milk purchased in
Istanbul during the ship's journey from the Black Sea to our
rendezvous port on the Strait of Magellan. While there the ship
purchased more provisions and at the other end of the table was a
carton of milk from Chile. Needless to say it's very unlikely
that the two cows would ever meet, but what would happen when
their milk met in his cereal bowl? We all hovered about him
waiting anxiously to see east meet west, Moslem meet Catholic,
northern hemisphere meet southern hemisphere. Would the combined
milk Kurd? Would the swirls go clockwise or counter? This was
we thought a momentous occasion; an event that perhaps had never
occurred before.
But when all was said and done it just looked
like an ordinary bowl of cereal drowning in homogenous milk.
-Roger