Friday, July 23, 2010
excerpt from an actual conversation between L. and me, yesterday
"How does that drawbridge over the canal go up? How do the people know if it's going up so they can have time to get out of the way? Is that water down there? Why is water a fluid? What is that brown stuff in there? Why is there a gate over there? What's this I just picked up off the sidewalk? Do those boats ever go anywhere? Will I ever get any cavities? When am I going to learn to swim? How many more swimming lessons will it be before I learn? What is Grammy doing right now? Why do I keep asking you questions? Why do you keep saying 'I don't know'?"
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She's right, you know. Why IS water a fluid?
We're working on the chicken vs. the egg dilemma at our house, these days. Endless entertainment.
why don't you know?
Grammie's flying over the U S A on her way home from an amazing week in Brooklyn. You're swimming,Lucy! I saw you!!
WHY don't you know? Don't you understand? Moms KNOW everything!
At ambient atmospheric pressure of 760mmHg & temperature between 0 & 100 celsius the element H20 exists in a liquid state. But I don't know what the brown stuff in the cannal is.
It's still a fluid when it's water vapor. And H20 is a molecule, not an element.
Mr. O Technicus made me laugh. yup. i am laughing thinking you may be Ms. O Technicus. mole-cules are those things that moles have on the end of their snouty-noses. EVERYbody (ask your mom!) knows about mole-cules.
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