What utter nonsense. Cheerios have gravity. Remove the earth's gravitational forces they cannot overcome (by suspending them in milk) and they head right for each other.

Everybody knows that.

"My Alpha-Bits kep sending me messages. Look: 'Ooooooooo.' It's like a ghost!"

"Peter, those are Cheerios."

It makes me wonder how long the propeller heads worked feverishly to figure that out. Was it some guy's life's work? Did he sit there when he was a kid at breakfast trying to figure it out? And then spend his whole career on it? What is he going to do now?

Or did it take them a couple days as a passing interest?

I also wonder how much of our taxpayer money in grants they burned through to make their discovery?

Hopefully it has useful applications, like making some new oat-throwing Uber-vengeance-weapon for the war and stuff.

None of your tax dollars, Mark. Surface tension is a first-year physics lesson. Same reason you get rain drops and water beads. H2O does all kinds of cool things because of hydrogen bonding. Ever wonder why your ice cubes float or how a detergent works?

Ever wonder why your ice cubes float or how a detergent works?

Ice cubes? Yes. Detergent? Not really.

Why is it that when you swirl three coffee beans into a little cup of sambuca, two beans will come to rest together, and the other one will sit by itself?

lauraw- cause that last bean is kind of an asshole.

This guy doing this 'research' is a mathematician. Other scientists ostracise mathematicians for being nerds, if that tells you anything.

Well I'm glad no one tried a snap, crackle and pop joke..............? Oh.