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LIME IS A GREEN-TASTING ROCK
Take one class of elementary school students, mix it thoroughly with
several pounds of scientific facts, then shake it up with a examination
and you have the perfect formula for instant "youngsterisms" about
science.
The beguiling ideas about science quoted here were gleaned from essasys,
exams and classroom discussion; 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."
Question: What is one horsepower? Answer: One horsepower is the amount
of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to
getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind.
When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy.
When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
Talc is found on rocks and on babies.
The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
While the Earth seems to be knowingly keep its distance from the sun, it
is really only centrificating.
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.
One hundred humidities equal 1 rain.
Question: In a free fall, how long would it take to reach the ground
from a height of 1,000 feet? Answer: I have never performed this
experiment.
Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180
degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees
between north and south.
A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants
to go.
Hard mud is called shale. Soft mud is called gooey.
There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be
discovered. Find them all means living forever.
There is a termendious [sic] weight pressing down on the centre of the
Earth because of so much population stomping around here these days.
Lime is a green tasting rock.
Many dead animals of the past changed to fossils while others preferred
to be oil.
A fossil is a dead bone.
Genetics explains why you look like your father and if you don't why you
should.
Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.
Rain is saved up in cloud banks.
In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.
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.
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any
direction.
Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180
degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees
between north and south.
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 here these days.
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 to do.
Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will
kill the strongest man.
A blizzard is when it snows sideways.
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.
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