Well, I guess that shows how long it’s been since I went to mass. 
There must be exceptions. I was in an airport chapel once. I had a long layover and it was quiet in there.
A priest came in to set up for a short service. I hung around as other people trickled in. I’d been there first, I guess the priest thought I was there for the service, so he asked me to hold the tray of wafers. I thought “what the heck” and did so. I’m Episcopalian, so the form of the short service as very familiar. I did not commune, I’m not sure if he noticed that.
Known this good friend of mine ever since we were 10 years old. He didn’t go to college, but is a brilliant auto mechanic.
He’s in his 60’s now and is still not completely sure about the order of the months of the year.
I grew up on the east side of Salt Lake City, just below the university for people familiar with it.
SLC is flat below the foothills of the surrounding mountains and the closest ones were to the east of us.
I only found out after growing up that my older sister thought that east was actually north because north is “up.” This belief continued well beyond when she should have known better.
. . . on Sundays and major feasts. But on weekdays, typically just an NT reading and a gospel reading.
For example, on Monday 3 July the appointed readings were Eph 2:19-22 (the NT reading) and Jn 20:24-29 (the gospel reading).
What about the southern hemisphere, eh?? Gotcha, Ms. Smarty Professor.
This is one of those almost-understandable misunderstandings. He probably had a teacher that told him that ice, as it is melting, is always 32 F. If you graph temperature against time, you’ll see the line trending upwards as the ice warms, then plateauing flat at 32 F as it melts, and then the (now water) temp continuing to climb.
And what he retained from that was the temperature of ice was always exactly 32.
It’s true. Due to the Coriolis effect, the southern half of the Earth rotates in the opposite direction.
Indeed.
Nope. Brother has a genius IQ, but he made the mistake of correcting the teacher in class and was punished for it the rest of the year. I remember brother telling me the arguments he’d used to try to get teacher to see his mistake.
The rest of the students in that class probably still believe that the temperature of ice is always 32 degrees.
I was told at some point that liquid water cannot get hotter than its boiling point since at that point it becomes a gas. Google hasn’t helped with this. Confirmation or contradiction will be appreciated.
This reminds me of a calculus class I had once where one of the examples was about tossing something straight up, with the graph showing how the ball would rise to a certain point, slowing constantly, then reach a peak and fall back down, speeding constantly. Except you know how if you graph that as height over time, it forms something like a compressed bell curve, and the teacher couldn’t grasp that the object wouldn’t literally move over to the side if tossed straight up–that there are separate and independent vertical and horizontal elements to the object’s movement. She was mistaking the drawing of the graph with the actual trajectory of the object. I don’t remember how the subject came up, but it resulted in about 5 minutes of back and forth between me and the teacher with me trying to explain that concept, until they finally had to find and bring in a physics teacher to settle the argument–in my favor.
That’s true, to a first-order approximation.
With an open container, water will stay at 100C until it is all boiled away, regardless of how much energy you put into it.
It is NOT true if the container is sealed.
Well, it’s not true that it won’t exceed 100C, but it is true as it is stated by ioioio, that it won’t exceed its boiling point, as pressure changes the boiling point.
Had a co-worker once state this same idea to me. He didn’t know why but ice had some property of never being colder than 32F.
Confession time. On another board I post on I asked a fellow member that lives in Liverpool England this:
When looking at a gas lawnmower engine, vertical shaft, opposite of the blade, does it spin clockwise or counter clockwise?
I always thought that would be pretty good. I always liked munching on raw potatoes. Nice and crunchy.
A couple of years ago I was in a conversation with several people, most of whom were Catholic, and the rest were other Christian types. The subject of discussion was the giant Prestonwood Baptist Church in the Dallas area, how it’s like a city with coffee shops and stores and whatever else, and I, the atheist in the room, cleverly added “and they have several money changers!”
Not a single person in the room knew what I was referring to. I got a blank look, and then someone asked “you mean like an ATM?”
I’m a self-proclaimed nerd, but along the science side of things, not fantasy. I didn’t know any of that stuff that you listed as something everyone should know.
Until about 10 minutes ago I didn’t know Maria Scary and Celine Dion were different people. It’s not my genre.
Wouldn’t the fact that they have two different names tip you off?
The sun is not yellow and the sky is not blue, but I’m not likely to correct someone in either case unless the correction makes a substantial difference in the discussion or is in the context of education. 99.999987%* of the time “yellow sun” and “blue sky” are perfectly acceptable descriptions.
Number courtesy of trustats4u.com*
**Also a made up thing
Generally true: if you are boiling a pot of water on the stove and turn the heat up higher, the water doesn’t get any hotter - it just boils away faster.
However, there are rare, special circumstances in which water can be heated past its boiling point without turning into vapor. For this to occur, one generally needs a smooth-walled vessel, and very clean water. In order to boil, a liquid typically needs nucleation sites on which vapor can begin to form tiny bubbles that quickly grow into larger bubbles which then break free and rise to the surface, carrying away heat and keeping the temperature of the liquid at the boiling point. You may remember high-school or college chemistry classes in which you were supposed to add “boiling chips” to test tubes of water; these were cracked pieces of ceramic that provided the rough edges that served as nucleation sites, preventing delayed, explosive boiling. Without nucleation sites, it is possible to heat water well past its boiling point; a slight physical disturbance may then cause the water (or a portion of it) to violently flash into steam.
This sometimes happens when heating water in the microwave in a clean ceramic mug. You heat it up for five minutes (instead of one or two), and then when you grab the mug, POOF - you get a face full of scalding steam.
You would hope!
I dunno what to say. It was Canadian, and it was wailing and had long hair. I know that also describes Neil Young so there is some hope for me …