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In reply to the discussion: We should have been colonizing the solar system by now. [View all]Trillo
(9,154 posts)2. Stay here and die, or go there and die. What's the diff?
My 10th grade science class, the instructor had a wonderful pyrotechnic display on his desk, burning a magenta color. Asserted it was made "with ingredients under all of our kitchen sinks", but would not say what those ingredients were. A majority of the males in class persisted in wanting to know how to do it themselves, the females less so. Instructor kept saying No dice or words to that effect. Lesson learned: Science cannot be repeated.
I was given a chemistry set as a kid, probably for "Christmas", don't remember what age I was right now. It had chemical bottles labeled something like "1", "2", "3", etc. Instructions said something like mix so much of bottle 1 with bottle 2, and watch the colors change. No chemical theorey at all, just proceedure. I kept repeating the experiment, until a bottle was gone. Didn't know what to replace it with, but there was an order form at the end of the "manual", if it could be called that, along with prices. We could order "bottle 1", and 2, and 3, and so on.
There wasn't much there to learn, except how to send that company more money. Science was presented as a scam both in school and by corporations selling chemistry kits to gullible parents, back then.
Maybe it's different now, but cookbooks mostly still use volumetric measure, perhaps that's okay for water-based liquids, but needlessly complex for solids.... Keep mistraining the masses..., I'm quite certain it's intentional.