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Post by Optimus on Jun 15, 2017 12:08:17 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 12:14:52 GMT -5
Well. That explains quite a bit, actually.
I'm thinking maybe we should put that 7% on an icefloe and set them adrift.
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Post by robeiae on Jun 15, 2017 12:39:14 GMT -5
There's not enough water on the planet to make that much ice!
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Post by haggis on Jun 15, 2017 13:40:20 GMT -5
There's not enough water on the planet to make that much ice! Ice comes from water? Who knew?
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Post by robeiae on Jun 15, 2017 13:51:06 GMT -5
IF you use very little water to make it, you get "dry ice."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 13:53:36 GMT -5
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Post by Christine on Jun 15, 2017 13:54:59 GMT -5
I disbelieve that statistic. Everyone knows chocolate milk comes from a brown rabbit.
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Post by Don on Jun 15, 2017 15:54:24 GMT -5
That's quite an endorsement for the public education system.
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Post by Vince524 on Jun 15, 2017 17:12:08 GMT -5
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Post by michaelw on Jun 15, 2017 17:28:40 GMT -5
Certainly embarrassing, but I would take this in a heartbeat over the 40-something percent of Americans who think scientists don't know how to tell how old a piece of rock is.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 18:16:46 GMT -5
Let's face it -- we're maybe one generation away from garbage landslides and buildings duct-taped together.
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Post by robeiae on Jun 15, 2017 19:57:37 GMT -5
I like this better:
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Post by Christine on Jun 15, 2017 20:36:25 GMT -5
That's quite an endorsement for the public education system. I'm not really sure the public education system is responsible. Should we be ensuring that schools teach where chocolate milk and chicken McNuggets come from? I asked my 11 year old where chocolate milk comes from today. He said (after looking at me kind of weird) it's milk and Hershey's syrup. I asked him, How did you know that? He said his little brother (step brother) loves chocolate milk and that's how his stepmom makes it. It seems maybe like the issue for this 7% is never having seen chocolate milk "homemade," but rather only buying it from a store? At any rate, I'm not sure that's within the purview of public education. Side note: We had this discussion at dinner. My 26 year old said (snarkily), "How can chocolate be in a cow." A logical deduction, yes? Perhaps public education worked well enough for him.
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Post by Don on Jun 15, 2017 21:24:19 GMT -5
Christine, yo do realize your side note slaughtered your first four paragraphs, right? This has a lot more to do with logic and critical thinking than with chocolate milk, and I'd say a 93% "success" rate teaching those skills is deplorable, to say the least. Of course, that's based on the assumption that those who run the system are actually trying to produce logical, thinking individuals.
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Post by Christine on Jun 15, 2017 21:24:32 GMT -5
Certainly embarrassing, but I would take this in a heartbeat over the 40-something percent of Americans who think scientists don't know how to tell how old a piece of rock is. Yaaaasssss. What people refuse to believe given evidence, as opposed to what people believe because they've never been evidence to the contrary. No contest.
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