Wephepper: The Latest Snow Discovery
For years scientists had been struggling to measure the highest point of a snowflake when it hit the ground. Their years and years of research led them nowhere. A few of them ended up in debt as they mortgaged their houses to buy snow measuring equipment and the others ended up dead, having lost their lives to pneumonia and hypothermia.
The whole scientific world was at a standstill as nobody could measure the highest point of a snowflake. The Flakey Department of Unnatural Studies posted a reward for anyone who could answer this highly complex question.
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
Dexter Wephepper’s lifelong dream was to become a scientist. His parents couldn’t understand his obsession for science and instead of sending him to the Archimedes School for Bright Young Boys; sent him for unending therapy.
One snowy day, he overheard conversations about the failed snowflake measurement experiments. Wephepper felt a rush of adrenalin. He knew he could measure the highest point of the snowflake. He ran home broke his piggy bank, took all the money he every earned and made his way to Flakey Department of Unnatural Studies.
At first, nobody took Wephepper seriously, but then after he showed them his accurate measurements of the sun’s rays, raindrops and the earth is actually round experiments, they allowed him to conduct his experiment.
That night, a terrible blizzard hit the city. Wephepper spent the entire night collecting hundreds of snowflakes. He then took them to the laboratory where he analyzed, compared and studied them.
The Wephepper is Discovered
The next morning he had the answer. The highest point of the snowflake once it hits the ground was 00.68677 kmph. This was a tremendous breakthrough in science and from that day on, not did the mayor declare the 1st of December as Wephepper day, but the highest point of a snowflake is now known as Wephepper.
