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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • Told that joke to my daughter. Didn’t understand it. Fine, hydrogen, atoms molecules… thought one for a 10 y/o with no particular interest in science.

    But then I asked how many stars our solar system had.

    Answer: “I don’t know”

    Asked with emphasis on “our solar system”.

    Answer: “Infiite number of stars”

    Asked how many stars are in out living room

    Answer: “Zero”

    Asked how many stars are on our planet

    Answer: “Zero”

    Me thinking we are on track and that she understood the scoping error in her first assessment asking the original question again with emphasis on sun (in german its sonnensystem, I.e. sun system, so it makes sense)

    Answer: “Zero”

    Lovely seeing extrapolation in real live.




  • There was a publication, maybe in german, not sure, which stated that bumblebee can’t fly due to their aerodynamics which i think assumed that a bumblebee was a fixed wing aircraft, which it obviously isn’t. Or maybe it was a hoax to proof that hoaxes spead and can’t be retracted. Not sure. I think it’s quite old actually, dating back to the 1920s or 30s.