Submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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I love talking with kids in that phase. The raw curiosity and interest in the mundane is so refreshing.
Sometimes I feel like many adults hate to learn new stuff and even get offended by the idea. It’s heartbreaking seeing those interact with inquisitive children, when they answer honest curiosity with indifference or worse anger.
Kids can be annoying sometimes, especially if you let them live in your house
This is why I choose not to have kids. Actually because current state of affairs and their like a boat anchor to freedom.
I like it when they are circling a question where the answer is "Nobody knows yet.’ And when they get there I can hit 'em with the finishing move, “Maybe you’ll be the first person to find out!”
Hooks them every time.
my kid has been teaching me shit constantly. either by having facts about animals i didn’t know before (which i have checked and verified) or asking me questions where my answer was “i don’t know, let’s look it up”.
i was always a curious person myself and constantly asked questions as a kid as well, but as you grow up you sometimes take things for granted and forget to ask why something is the way it is or how it came to be so. now my kid looks at the world with fresh eyes and asks questions i haven’t asked, so we can both learn. it’s awesome.
reminds me of the monologue that woman delivers in Love Death and Robots episode Pop Squad.
There’s a science article that investigated why the Brits discuss the weather? I’m now mildly curious to know their methodology and conclusions…
I like that it’s a foregone conclusion, not just weather or not they do.
It is? I hadn’t the foggiest!
they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea
I still think mechanical watches are a pretty neat idea. I also never forget my towel so there’s some hope for me yet.
I like this reference.
Sociology
It’s like being subscribed to a toddlerthe “why” phase.
But it’s the target audience (people who might subscribe to BBC notifications) as smart as a little 12 year old?
That second one may do a lot more than just no tides. The planet may not be habitable without the moon. I don’t remember the specific details right now, but those tides have something to do with levelling out our weather patterns.
No. Not this time. It’s fiction. We made it up. This one was invented by a writer. We got you. It never happened.
You’re right. A similar event took place. Yes, it was. You were correct. It’s fact. This one took place. Right again. A similar story happened to a young man in the Pacific northwest about twenty years ago. Yes.
Yeah, he thought it was a different kind of BBC notifications. ಠ◡ಠ
big black co… corporation?
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 2 years ago
Do plants die of old age though? Now that question has been put in my head, I need to know.
Be back in a bit, going down a rabbit hole.
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 2 years ago
Given the right conditions, some plants can live indefinitely. Others die shortly after seeding.
Malgas@beehaw.org 2 years ago
There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Depends how you look at it. If you keep raising off-shoots from cuttings, you are essentially producing extensions of the very same plant and you can do that indefinitely. An individual plant will eventually die tho as they are not biologically immortal like some lobsters fot example.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Tell me more about these lobsters
Kanda@reddthat.com 2 years ago
So… Do they?
9point6@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Should we send someone after him?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 years ago
Vine plants are especially weird.
Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You gotta tell us some fun things you learned!
frank@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Subscribe to plant facts
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
wait until you get to the part about the Ginkgo tree
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 2 years ago
It is the horseshoe crab of trees