I worked at a very secret institute near Moscow. One of our employees returned from a business trip from Baikonur and, among other interesting facts, that there were so few women there that, as the locals say, “one woman has ten meters of goats and a can of eggs.”

They laughed and started working. Not everything comes out of his head such a wonderful fact. But since all men are scientists, with education, and not with one, someone thoughtfully said:

Is it true that 10 meters is a hole?

Everyone abandoned their important scientific work and started calculations. How interesting it was! The entire department of the secret institute spent the whole day engaged in such matters as collecting the source data, that is, clarifying the average size (how many disputes there were - everyone was embarrassed to say the size in centimeters out loud, so that others would not laugh at it), calculating the volume of the ellipsoid, even introduced the "coefficient" of placing in the cage. Then they remembered that this coefficient was a non-linear thing, because the upper eggs would press the lower ones! Even taken into account

The shape of cane. In general, by the end of this day, the result was obtained - a little more than half the cage. And at this time, the whole country expected from Soviet scientists new victories in space.