Among those ideas, as I described on this post a while back, was getting real world objects, from the Jodrell Bank telescope, to the Isle of Wight ferry, to Tower Bridge, to tweet.
BBC: Whatever happened to @towerbridge?
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In her chapter on Galileo, Ferguson tells us that the arrogant, self-promoting Italian did not invent the telescope, and it is doubtful he conducted the legendary display of dropping weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.