Not Mars.... MERCURY
READY MERCURY?
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The Honda F1 team may be on the verge of a breakthrough in a so far disappointing season, after the appointment of a new special adviser.
Professor Wolfgang Hornbuckle, of the Royal College of Astronomy, took up his position as the team?s ?Planetary Adviser? on Monday, and reckons that all Honda needs to do is change the Earth car into the Mercury car.
Prof Hornbuckle reckons the answer lies in ?Kepler?s second law of planetary motion?.
He explained: ?Honda has based the RA107 around the wrong planet ? the orbital velocity of the Earth is a pretty unimpressive 18 miles per second while Mercury belts along at a mighty 30 miles per second, which is ever so fast.?
Quite how the car will look, after being changed from a nice bluey-green to a dusty brown remains to be seen, but all options are being considered.
The Prof went on (as astronomers do): ?And of course, in Roman times, Mercury was the messenger of the gods, and was naturally thought to be a bit on the swift side, so it all fits together very nicely really.?
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