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10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class
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| February 3, 2012
| Dan Nosowitz & The Mary Sue via Gizmodo
Posted on 02/17/2012 3:59:47 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: MHGinTN; Oberon
Not quite, a lady had made photographs (x-ray photographs) of DNA and this prompted Watson and Crick to discover the ladder shape of the double helix. She, BTW, was not credited in their accolades.As outlined in The Disappearing Spoon - by Sam Kean
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02/17/2012 8:54:18 AM PST
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pa_dweller
(Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves:... Isa 1:23)
To: null and void
Thought you might be interested in this article
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02/17/2012 9:32:57 AM PST
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Shimmer1
(No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.)
To: samtheman
Checking this story out a bit — I predict this molecule will never be built, unless this girl or a lover of hers eventually does it. The chemistry and chemical intermediates required would be incredibly difficult to choreograph.
Ping me if it does, and I will find an appropriate thing to do like eat my hat, etc.
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02/17/2012 10:21:23 AM PST
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AFPhys
((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
To: SunkenCiv
The science teacher who handed out models of molecules is named Boehr?
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02/17/2012 9:21:50 PM PST
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Defiant
(If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
To: Condor51
That explains something I saw once while driving — a sign by what I thought was some kind of natural feature, called “Ken Crater”. ;’)
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02/18/2012 4:56:57 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(FReep this FReepathon!)
To: GnL
> So she randomly put together some sticks and balls and got lucky?
You know what they (the Darwinists) say? Put enough monkeys at the typewriter and, sooner or later, one of them will write a Shakespeare sonnet.
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02/18/2012 5:02:57 AM PST
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XEHRpa
To: GnL
I should add that, contrary to the Darwinists, I do see intelligent design in what she did. As some have said, the balls she arranged could only fit together certain ways (bond angles, etc.)
Furthermore, 10 year olds are clever. Kudos to her.
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02/18/2012 5:07:01 AM PST
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XEHRpa
To: Defiant
Maybe we should check his radius.
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02/18/2012 7:33:08 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(FReep this FReepathon!)
To: MHGinTN
Rosalind Franklin was her name, and yes, her contributions were key in the discovery, she was barely credited.
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02/18/2012 8:14:27 AM PST
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Paradox
(I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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