rovers wobble but they don't fall down!

[opportunitygrrl]

Still in Endurance! It's not so bad in here, but everyone's afraid I'll lose traction and tip over when using my tools, so I have to move really carefully! I hear they're calling me The Little Rover That Could. I don't know if I could think of a more embarrassing nickname, but I bet they could...sheesh, parents

Comments

quarkfish

[marswalker]

Time for a short story?

one quark
two quark
red quark
blue quark

strange quark
three quark
charm quark
green quark

This one has
two-third's of a charge
This one is rather large
Say, what a lot of quarks there are!

From there to here
from here to there
funny particles are everywhere

Fermions matter
Bosons, the carriers

Some fermions are quarks
Some fermions are leptons
Quarks make up protons,
neutrons, and those hadrons

Yet leptons are electrons
with a charge of minus one!
Neutrinos, they say,
are leptons with none!

Oh me ! Oh My!
Oh me ! Oh My!
What a lot of funny
particles go by!

Eight gluons are with the
Strong Nuclear Force!
and the Strong Nuclear Force
make up the quarks, of course!

Intermediate vector bosons,
you may,
find them, find them
with nuclear decay!

Where do they come from?
I can not say,
But I bet they have come
a long long way

From here to there
from there to here
funny elementary
particles are Everywhere!

Re: quarkfish

[marswalker]

Glad you liked it. I confess, though, it was on a T-shirt I had once. :-)

[raspberryfool]

There was a young rover on Mars,
who wanted to go to the stars.
She saw Castor and Pollox
but then thought "oh bo**ocks;
I've too many numbers to parse!"

[elimloth]

This is from A Space Child's Mother Goose

Little Jack Horner
Sits in a corner
Extracting cube roots to infinity,
An assignment for boys
That will minimize noise
And produce a more peaceful vicinity.

[grassynoel]

I'll pay that one! Yeah!

[marswalker]

Not to mention, your latest status report says you're more sure-footed than a billy-goat. :-)
We all think you're extreemly cool.