Because we have a high opinion of the kind of people who are smart enough to read LWLies, we thought you might be interested in this.
To celebrate the fortieth birthday of The Italian Job (and the hundredth birthday of the Periodic Table of the Elements – although, given that it’s been going for a century, you’d have to say it doesn’t seem that ‘periodic’. More, y’know, consistent) the RSC has issued a challenge.
To quote the press release: ‘The RSC wants to know how the heist team who pulled The Italian Job might have managed to save their lives and rescue stacks of gold bars in a bus see-sawing precariously on the edge of an Italian mountain.’
Says RSC Chief Exec Richard Pike: “It would be a challenging exercise in logical thinking to see if the situation could have been saved. We see this as a call for clear and creative scientific and engineering thought under pressure.”
That’s the thing – these guys want serious, scientifically rigorous solutions. Not something along the lines of, ‘Well, what if they used that transporter thing from Star Trek…?’ So if there’s any astro-nano-bio-material-chemical types out there, this could be your chance to win three nights in Turin. Need a plus one?
