Posted on 05/13/2019 4:03:36 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
In no particular order, here are some mind-bendingly incredible facts that we didn't learn at high school, but wish we did. Because I certainly would have paid a whole lot more attention if my teacher had shared a few of these insights in class.
Side note: if you did learn about all of this and more at school, then you had a kick-ass teacher and you should probably tell them that.
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XX is not XY?
And then there was the torque of the porque when you abo7t 13.
The only “science facts” you’re taught in high school today is that your sex exists is a quantum superposition and the earth is on fire.
XX is not XY? ???
Chromosomes?
I quickly reread the article, still not seeing it?
Well, that will sure come in handy some day.
My only concern by the time I got to HS in 1962 was biology.
Never took a good biology course. I was into my own experimentation.
+1!
Oddly I knew all of these things with the exception of lasers. In 1966 lasers were new cutting edge technology and did not exist in high school. The others I did know about.
Today I am a retired man of science. The triple point of solid, vapor and liquid is most interesting. This was most integral in my studies of geochemistry. The assigned problems of this in our courses were under theoretical pressures of many millbars and temps of the melting point of rocks but the physics is the same.
Yes, ice, water and vapor can all exist together at the triple point. It is a most unstable point defined by pressure and temperature. A minor fraction in change in temp or pressure will define if it is liquid, solid or vapor.
Not if you’re a fish
Recently, they would not learn that the Sun has the greatest impact on Earth’s climate.
Got it.
Thanks for the help!
Using your hand to make a pinpoint to bring things into focus. I use it all the time.
The other is the Magnus Effect. I've played a lot of golf. The direction and turn of the ball is determined by the spin the club head places on the ball when struck. A skilled golfer can make a golf ball turn up to 90 degrees or more to the right or left. He can also make the ball rise by striking down on it for backspin or hooding the club face to cause the ball to stay down low.
The rest of the facts were very interesting.
Thanks for posting.
You put that up just to make my brain hurt!!!
And to think some old Kraut worked that out a couple of hundred years ago, no computers, no calculators, crappy pencils without erasers...!
I've got a pan of water boiling on the stove, and put a filled ice tray I just put in the freezer a few minutes ago, I just looke into the freezer and ice is skimming over the water. The time is now 29 minutes and 6 seconds after 8 PM, EST.
This was real easy. What does cyclohexane have to do with this?
OK, it was a while ago...and yes, Louis Pasteur and I were lab partners. Taught him everything he knew.
Indeed, when you eliminate air resistance, any object will fall at the same rate. There was a famous video taken on the Moon of a hammer and feather dropped and the both landed at the same time because with essentially almost zero atmosphere, there’s no air resistance to stop down the feather. Indeed, on Mars, the feather would probably land only a little slower than the hammer, because there’s just enough atmospheric pressure to slow the feather down just a tad.
10. A single solar flare can release the equivalent energy of millions of 100-megaton atomic bombs
NASA
And they’re happening all the time.
And yet, “97% of all scientists” (btw, this is debunked, it’s 97% of all LIBERAL ASKED SCIENTIST) agree that Man-Made Climate Change will destroy the Earth in 10 years. Or maybe 12 (unless AOC really was joking). Or maybe it’s the 30 this other new guy is claiming.
Friggin’ morons.
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