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thanks to Jia Jia;)


THE man in the moon is humming a tune, but thankfully the noise won't drown out sensors on future missions peeking at the lunar interior.
A steady barrage of small meteorite impacts should cause the moon to "ring", but no seismometers sent to the moon to date have been sensitive enough to hear it. So Philippe Lognonné at the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris and colleagues decided to work out how loud the ring is....
Tachibana Akemi
What a delight it is
When on the bamboo matting
In my grass-thatched hut,
All on my own, I make myself at ease.
What a delight it is
When, borrowing
Rare writings from a friend,
I open out
The first sheet.
What a delight it is
When, spreading paper
I take my brush
And find my hand
Better than I thought.
What a delight it is
When, after a hundred days
Of racking my brains,
That verse that wouldn't come
Suddenly turns out well.
What a delight it is
When, of a morning,
I get up and go out
To find in full bloom a flower
That yesterday was not there.
What a delight it is
When, skimming through the pages
Of a book, I discover
A man written of there
Who is just like me.
What a delight it is
When I blow away the ash,
To watch the crimson
Of the glowing fire
And hear the water boil.
What a delight it is
When a guest you cannot stand
Arrives, then says to you
"I'm afraid I can't stay long",
And soon goes home.