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The crazy this is that was in 1998… 14 years before scientists discovered the actual answer, and Homer was so close! if you stick those numbers into the equation itself, it’s higher than the actual mass. (Homers equation gives us 775 giga-electron-volts rather than CERNs 125).

Martin has heard of this Ray Bradbury character.

 

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Martin might be aware, but we are not.

In season 2, episode 19, “Lisa’s Substitute”, Martin Prince is in the running for class president, and delivers the speech, “As your president, I would demand a science-fiction library, featuring an ABC of the genre. Asimov, Bester, Clarke!”

When albino classmate Wendell Borton asks, “What about Ray Bradbury?” Martin dismissively brushes him off with a quick, “I’m aware of his work”.

Many sci-fi fans and critics consider the first three names listed as classic “hard” science fiction writers, but Bradbury is considered too wishy-washy by many sci-fi dorks to “count.”

Grandpa’s measurements.

 

Grandpa’s measurements.

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In season 6, episode 18, “A Star is Burns”, Abe Simpson yells, “The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I like it”.

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