Scientists were today able to dispel the age old belief that no two snowflakes are the same.
Using state of the art microscopy techniques and by catching flakes as they fell in specially designed equipment, while sitting at a table outside a pub in Norwich, the team of researchers, backed up by a twenty million pound grant, were able to make an identical match to the famous Higgs flake, photographed on a box brownie 47 years ago by keen amateur snowflakeologist Derek Higgs of Aylsham.
'It's one of the last remaining challenges known to science and we've cracked it at last,' said lead researcher Professor Derek Higgs, of Aylsham 'We're all over the moon, and while there's a little left to do the team will now be disbanding to pursue other major scientific challenges, such as the unresolved toast-butter conundrum, and whether or not my baldness makes me a better lover.'
But this was a day for celebration, and the scientists then all ordered a ploughmans lunch and considered the futility of existence, an activity for which they also receive a grant worth almost twice the GDP of Tonga.
