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5th-grader finds mistake at Smithsonian
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Posted on 04/02/2008 6:12:07 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: billorites
With a name like that... you know he'll never get laid.Well, apparently his father did (at least once)!
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:29:04 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Maybe there's something wrong with the "corporate culture" at the Smithsonian if the paleobiology staff feels powerless to correct things they know to be wrong. Either that or the paleobiology departments are the red-haired stepchildren among museum departments.
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:31:30 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(It takes a father to raise a child.)
To: Moonman62
To: Fresh Wind
Well, apparently his father did (at least once)!What does their Fedex man look like?
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:32:24 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(It takes a father to raise a child.)
To: Hildy
Smart kid. Too bad he didn’t have time to drive down the street and fix Congress before he had to leave DC.
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:33:23 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
To: Hildy
Most visitors probably wouldn’t know a “Precambrian era” from a pre-game show, so I’m not really surprised that it took a fifth-grader to catch it.
Now if you really want to sound geeky, you’ll know the differences between a period, an epoch, and an era.
To: acapesket
8th grade is tough... I remember very little.8th grade was the best three years of my life.
To: southernnorthcarolina
Yo! I LOOOVVVED 8th Grade.
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:37:43 PM PDT
by
acapesket
(never had a vote count in all my years here)
To: Hildy
Baaah, kids find this kind of stuff all the time.
When I was little I found a mistake in the Nuclear Bomb
equations, the damn fools were about to explode the planet's atmosphere, a good thing I caught it before the test.
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:39:59 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: LiteKeeper; Allegra
“Allegan” and “Kalamazoo”...plays on our beloved cats’ names...
To: nhoward14
I think the museum director ought to have come out, faced the camera and said, "No, we are not smarter than a fifth grader."
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:40:39 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(...somebody was going to say it...why not me?)
To: RepublitarianRoger2
you’ll know the differences between a period, an epoch, and an era.
oh Man, that’s easy
1. That time of the month.
2. two part glue.
3. Some kind of amendment probably meaningless.
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:42:21 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: burroak
Snopes Urban Legend claims that the 1895 exam is
false. However Snopes' explanation is wanting. It does not say the test document as inauthentic or fake. Instead the Snopes writer goes on (for several pages) to explain why the test is not 'relevant' today, as if that matters to its authenticity.
So the 1895 the test is probably real, but the Snopes writer tries to bury the fact in a PC rant.
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:42:31 PM PDT
by
Gideon7
To: Hildy
I think either the press got this wrong, or the kid's teacher did.
The Precambrian Era exist and is valid. It's the Hadean Time that preceeds the Precambrian Era. that would be incorrectly described as an Era, as it's start point is not defined.
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:43:07 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: RepublitarianRoger2
One is longer than another,.
Ppppffffttt
Ask something hard - like
Is it shorter to New York or Detroit?
Name the 4 days of the week that begin with "T".
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:43:50 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
To: Hildy
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:44:32 PM PDT
by
DFG
To: Hildy
it has long rankled the paleobiology department's staff, who noticed it even before the Tower of Time was erected 27 years ago27 Years! Think of the inertia that 5th grader was able to overcome. Give the kid an Archimedes Award - he must have used one hell of a lever!!!
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:44:53 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
To: Gideon7
That's an unfair assessment as to the snopes explanation. But I did find it interesting how intense the teacher's exam was. Hell, where I live, all you need is a GED to be an emergency substitute teacher..meaning the teacher can have less education than the kids they are teaching!
How did American let the school get to be this bad? I don't have children and I'm always shocked to see how bad our schools really are.
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:45:56 PM PDT
by
Hildy
(Obama: "Yes, I sat in his church, but I didn't inhale.")
To: Hildy
Paging Jeff Foxworthy..............
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:47:06 PM PDT
by
Sue Perkick
(And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
To: bannie; TheMom
Public schools?Yeah, his public school teacher is why the kid caught the error.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Public schools rule!
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posted on
04/02/2008 6:47:47 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(2 Thessalonians 3:10 “... He that will not work, neither should he eat.”)
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