One has to admire the sheer optimism of modern science: I love the fact that there is such a discipline as astrobiology, whose practitioners' task is to imagine what life might be like on other planets. Yet here on the home planet we have profoundly strange aliens of our own.

The foot abduction is smaller (out-toeing is smaller) in the high-heeled gait (Adrian and Karpovich, 1966; Snow and Williams, 1994; Stefanyshyn et al., 2000), or no significant difference exists between the flat-heeled and the high-heeled gait (Merrifield, 1971).

His answer to the sum was erroneous.

[…] Donovan Humble always putting a picture of his beloved wife, Jean on the dresser; Ray Smith always asking after the day's mail delivery if he'd gotten a sugar report; or Dorothy Meadows driving all night to get home.