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Thursday, 16 June 2016

Getting away with it

It looks like I'm going to get away with calling this paper,"Attack of the Flying Snakes". I like this referee.

Sadly Robert Minchin's suggestion that we call it "Snakes on a Fundamental Plane" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_plane_(elliptical_galaxies)) came too late to feasibly re-word the paper. Next time...
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