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--- Xao the Prism Kat extraordinaire! (Xao at Furrymuck!) Today's Super Secret Tagline is: "Johnny was a chemist, Johnny is no more. For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4"---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 07:17:40 -0500 (EST) From: samkist at tir.com To: kremsre2 at pilot.msu.edu, ac496 at tir.com, samkist2 at hotmail.com Subject: For all you science fans, a kids view of science.
>From: Xamoyedx at aol.com >Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 07:29:13 -0400
>Science Scholars .... under pressure! (fwd) > >The beguiling ideas about science quoted here were gleaned from essays, >exams, and classroom discussions. Most were from fifth and sixth graders. > They illustrate Mark Twain's contention that the "most interesting >information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop." > > >You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to >getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind. > >Talc is found on rocks and on babies. > >The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down. > >When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. >But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions. > >When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When >planets do it we say they are orbiting. > >Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand. > >While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it >is really only centrificating. > >Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction. > >South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still >manage. > >Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back >into a sun in the daytime. > >A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to >go. > >There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be >discovered. Finding them all means living forever. > >There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because >of so much population stomping around up there these days. > >Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be >oil. > >Genetics explain why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you >should. > >Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're >there. > >Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so >sometimes it's brother against brother. > >Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never >been able to make out the numbers. > >We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets >blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on. > >To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions >are things that are still all mixed up. > >In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as >many H's as O's. > >Clouds are high flying fogs. > >I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and >that is the important thing. > >Clouds just keep circling the Earth around and around and around. There is >not much else for them to do. > >Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a >drop, it does. > >Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water. > >We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won't drown when we breathe. > >Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail. > >Rain is saved up in cloud banks. > >In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes. > >Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will kill the >strongest man. > >A blizzard is when it snows sideways. > >A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size. > >A monsoon is a French gentleman. > >Thunder is a rich source of loudness. > >Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound. > >It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other >places. > >The wind is like the air, only pushier. > > >