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The following ideas about science
quoted here were Gleaned from students' essays, exams, and classroom
discussions. Somehow it all makes sense!
* One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to
drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
* Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Many dead animals of the past changed to fossils,
others preferred to be oil.
* Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let
them know we know they're there.
* 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.
* H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold water.
* Water is composed of two gins. Oxygin and hydrogin.
Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.
* I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds
know how to do it, and that is the important thing.
* Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's
tongue will kill the strongest man.
* Isotherms & isobars are even more important than their
names sound.
* It is so hot in some parts of the world that the people
there have to live other places
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