No, that is correct
I just can't believe I haven't heard that one before. *spang*
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 15:25, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I remember reading it in one of my science books when younger
Involving the games teacher telling everyone to stop complaining, it was 30 degrees outside. It then explained that 30 degrees C would be a nice hot summer day, and 30 degrees Kelvin would involve the air lying on the ground in frozen chunks.
I thiiiink
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 15:28, Reply)

And everybody rapidly asphyxiating due to the lack of oxygen, whilst the onset of cold froze all the fluids in their cells causing their tissues to rupture
What an upbeat way to teach science to kids.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 15:31, Reply)

Worse than
this?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 15:32, Reply)

That is an awesome photo.
What's that cupped in your hand? Such a promising start as a biologist. (Mind you, I was determined to be a palaeontologist at that age and look where I ended up!)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 15:35, Reply)

A dissected heart
Liver and lungs are on the table.

My father was convinced I was going to be a scientist :( I only went to school half days in LA, so spent the other half reading and doing science experiments. Then it all went wrong when I realised I was fairly good at Latin.

I think I'm between 7 and 9 in that photo, I can't remember.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 15:38, Reply)

My father is still convinced I'm going to be a scientist.
See, if you'd stuck with the biology, you'd have had to learn a bit of Greek and Latin for that. Probably not enough to satisfy your curiosity, mind - and certainly nothing on the same level as the Catullus.

(Haven't cooked heart or liver for ages now...getting hungry thinking about it.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 15:46, Reply)

I've had scientific and mathematical conversations with my dad before
We'll sit down and discuss stuff. He taught me about imaginary numbers when I was 13, and integration when I was around 15.
I just enjoy the problem-solving feeling of translation. You have the component parts before you, you have to identify them all and their function. there are sometimes ambiguities, which makes it fun. Sometimes there are things misisng, and sometimes it's just really hard. But it's fun.

Carnivore ^_^
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 8 Jun 2010, 15:50, Reply)