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THE JOYS OF SCIENCE

The compiler of these gems is Ben Stewart, a retired elementary
school science teacher, who found each of these answers in the 
essays, tests, and discussions he conducted over the years with 
fifth- and sixth-graders.

"Humidity is the experience of looking for water and finding air."

"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."

"The main value of tornadoes is yet to be discovered."

"To most people solutions mean finding the answers.  But to chemists
solutions are things that are still all mixed up."

"When the fuel in a rocket starts burning gasses rush out the nozzle.
 So would anybody."

"I am not sure how clouds get formed.  But the clouds know how and
 that is the important thing."

"When a wave rolls over on itself it's called a breaker.  Of just
 about anything I guess."

"Thunder is a rich source of loudness."

"Question:  In what ways are we dependent on the sun?  Answer:  We
 can always depend on the sun for sunburns and tidal waves."

"Wind is like the air, only pushier."

"Hard mud is called shale.  Soft mud is called gooey."

"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."

"Rainbows are just to look at not really to understand."

"South America has cold summers and warm winters, but somehow they
 still manage"

"Most books say our sun is a star.  But it still knows how to change
 back into a sun in the daytime."

"Isotherms and Isobars are even more important than their names
 sound."

"A vibration is a motion that cannot make up it's mind which way it
 wants to go."

"Many dead animals of the past changed to fossils while others
 preferred to be oil."

"Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why
 you should"

"Although Edison was once considered a great inventor, we now know of
 many inventions he overlooked."

"Talc is found in rocks and on babies."

"Our mother Earth has small poles and a large equator because of the
tremendous speed as she hurdles through space.  Since we are along
 for the ride, we also get to be flat at our poles and rounded at 
our equators."

"A planet cannot have an axis until it can get a line to run through
 it."

"Everybody leans to the sun in the summer and away in winter.  We are
 all a little tipsy that way."

"We get our temperature three different ways.  Either farenheit,
 celcius or centipede."

"Question:  In free fall, how long would it take to reach the ground
 from a height of 1000 feet?  Answer:   I have never performed this
 experiment."
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