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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2013 02:17:01 No.5485860 View View Reply Original Report

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Anyone else have kid science moments? (pic related)
>be 5
>think that milk tastes pretty shit
>figure I'd improve its taste vastly by adding something tasty
>add some pepsi into milk
>how didn't anyone else think of this shit
>try it out
>nope.jpg

>wonder why wait for 40 minutes at 100 celsius for a meal to finish instead of going turbo and wait for 10 mins at 400
>is there no end to my genius
>end up with charcoal cookies

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 16:36:15 No.5490646 Report

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>>5490631

All my knowledge come from verified scientific studies, I think my knowledge is about as reliable and accurate as it gets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 16:38:42 No.5490649 Report

Quoted By: >>5491433

>in my country the word for when you get refund for empty bottles sound very similar to "planting"
>pante/plante
>try and bury bottles

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 16:38:52 No.5490650 Report

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>be four years old
>see tv
>wonder how the images appear on the screen
>great idea
>the pictures are sent frame by frame like a roll of paper through all the electrical wires leading to the tv

Yeah that's tottaly how it works.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 16:39:19 No.5490652 Report

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>>5490642
Shit, i AM a wizard

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 16:43:43 No.5490656 Report

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there's a commercial (not in english) that's very relevant here
>4 year old sitting on a treebranch with a bed sheet
>"meydey meydey, calling all patrols! pilot 7 is about to crash, i will have to jump out and use my parachute"
>he lifts the bed sheet higher up
>wind takes it and it blows away
>"oh no...what do i do now?"
>zoom out, he's three feet above the ground
>"do i have to sit here the entire eternity?"

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 16:52:33 No.5490663 Report

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>>5487264
HAHAHA

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 17:00:12 No.5490670 Report

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I see several posts here about stuff that's common child logic, so i wanna know, what things did you guys figure out solemnly by thinking (as a kid) that you later found out was fact

as an example, i figured that if the tv shows "traveled" through a cable that was hooked up to another cable that went a long distance to where it originated it would take time to reach the TV, therefore, a longer cable/distance meant you'd get stuff later than others

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 17:13:30 No.5490680 Report

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>>5489332
That post gave me cancer

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 17:21:03 No.5490687 Report

Quoted By: >>5492020

>be 6 or so
>watching tv
>think that when I look at it from an extreme angle, I can see things that are usually out of frame
>you mad tv makers?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 17:37:43 No.5490707 Report

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>be 10
>think i can see through objects

turns out it's just that i have two eyes, so one can see things that the other can't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 17:55:09 No.5490726 Report

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>be 6
>visiting family friends at their house
>house is on a hill
>walk up the hill
>come to another driveway just like theirs
>'I've discovered a loop in space'

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 17:59:46 No.5490730 Report

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>>5487045
i contemplated the color of nothing for many an hour as a child.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 18:02:00 No.5490736 Report

Quoted By: >>5490858 >>5490978 >>5491030

>be 8
>Saw in an encyclopedia that the earth revolves around the sun
>Some random day afterwards I start contemplating about why we have different seasons with different climates / temperatures.
>After a while I developed the idea of an elliptical orbit and how the closer the earth is to the sun (the hot object as I had interpreted it then) the hotter the climate would be.
>I ask my mom&dad for verification.
>mfw they didn't even know.
>mfw when 7 years later in High School physics class, tutor explained that's how things worked.
>mfw when there were people in class who couldn't grasp the concept.

>be 9
>I suggest to myself that perhaps different bodily features represent different psychological traits (e.g. a rather short thumb would mean your compassionate)
>mfw I spend next 2-3 years observing everyone intensely trying to make patterns to verify my theory using everyone I knew.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 18:08:24 No.5490744 Report

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>>5487235
Both of those were hilarious.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 18:55:56 No.5490828 Report

Quoted By: >>5490838 >>5491173

>gameboy color has light which dims as battery runs out
>brighter light = more battery
>playing in dark = light looks brighter
>therefore when the batteries were running out i played in the dark

i also though that you should see dead people on clouds because in my language the word for 'heaven' is the same as the word for 'sky' and i literally thought dead people went to live in the sky

at around age 5 i also thought i was omniscient and the son of god. partly explained maybe by my dad living elsewhere.

i also thought things like dying and severe injuries only happened to other people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 19:01:59 No.5490838 Report

Quoted By: >>5490862

>>5490828
>i also thought things like dying and severe injuries only happened to other people.
But have you proven that you can die yet?
Maybe dying really is something that only happens to other people.
You can't know.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 19:02:06 No.5490839 Report

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>>5487555
:( now I want a mini pet cloud

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 19:12:24 No.5490858 Report

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>>5490736
>After a while I developed the idea of an elliptical orbit and how the closer the earth is to the sun (the hot object as I had interpreted it then) the hotter the climate would be.
>mfw when 7 years later in High School physics class, tutor explained that's how things worked.

But that's wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 19:15:16 No.5490862 Report

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>>5490838

this is the point where these questions become purely theoretical and completely useless.

also, my definition of 'other people' was everyone i didn't closely know, so after a few family members died i realized if it could happen to them it must happen to me too.

also, it would really suck if i couldn't die.

Lizerd

Lizerd Fri 01 Feb 2013 19:54:31 No.5490934 Report

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>>5487483
That trick always mesmerized me as a kid. I thought people had a muscle or bone that held on to your thumb and they'd covered up the bone or muscle so you wouldn't be grossed out.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 20:19:15 No.5490971 Report

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>>5490640

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 20:21:57 No.5490978 Report

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>>5490736
>that's how things worked.

no, it's not. yes, the orbit is elliptical, but it's very nearly circular. seasons are caused by differences in the angle of incidence of the sun to the hemispheres in different parts of the orbit (based on the tilted axis of rotation).

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 20:44:10 No.5491030 Report

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>>5490736
>Some random day afterwards I start contemplating about why we have different seasons with different climates / temperatures.
If the seasons were caused by the distance from the sun, all of Earth - Northern Hemisphare, Equatorial Region, Southern Hemisphere - would have Winter at the same time. Strike up a conversation with a Kenian and an Australian and ask them how they experience December...

Furthermore, the orbit of Earth is not elliptical but perfectly circular - unless you look *really* close. Earth's is about 150 million kilometres away from the sun, and the closest and farthest point just deviate +/- 2% of that (3 million kilometres). In other words, if you draw a circle in the sand, it will be more of an ellipse than the actual orbit of Earth.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 21:11:26 No.5491096 Report

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>>5487978
Waldorf salad: Apple, celery, walnuts and mayonnaise. Mum made that too and we always had it for christmas lunch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 21:22:43 No.5491135 Report

Quoted By: >>5492758

>I'm hungry and mom's gone to bed
>Let's make something tasty!
>Get a pot and wonder what to put in it
>Sugar tastes good!
>So does cinnamon, and salt!
>Just crack an egg into it, and put the lid on and you almost have dinner
>Now stick it in the microwave and wait for food
>OH SHIT THE HANDLE CAUGHT ON FIRE

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 21:24:55 No.5491143 Report

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>home alone, time for snax!
>fuck yea, there's a chocolate bar in the freezer
>it's frozen
>I'll just microwave it!
>OMG THE FOIL WRAPPER IS BURNING

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 21:27:39 No.5491154 Report

Quoted By: >>5492760

>played computer game when i was young
>in my mind the resolution is 1080p
>try game again
>wtf am i looking at?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 21:30:20 No.5491162 Report

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>>5485888
He used a Coca Cola glass, of course it won't work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 21:34:35 No.5491173 Report

Quoted By: >>5491193 >>5492732

>>5490828

Out of curiosity, what language and word is it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 21:41:18 No.5491193 Report

Quoted By: >>5491522 >>5492732

>>5491173
German possibly. Himmel means sky and heaven I think.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 22:14:22 No.5491306 Report

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I used to troll the fuck out of my little brother, telling him that smokestacks are cloud factories, and since we live in WA State we would go to mukilteo (small beach town on east side of puget sound) i would tell him that the islands across the sound were Japan. Also, not greentexting because ipads suck but anyway i once put made a fort when i was 3 and for a skylight i put a clear bowl on top and peed in it, thinking id get yellow light

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 22:19:50 No.5491317 Report

Quoted By: >>5491621 >>5493831

When we were around 8 we 'designed' (that is, we draw it on a piece of paper) a car that would get it's power from the wind etc. when the car is moving. When we showed it to adults, they tried explaining why it wouldn't work, but we just didn't get it. We just thought that if you put enough generators there it would generate enough power to move.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 22:57:44 No.5491425 Report

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>be 6
>know that babies are made by a mother and a father, needing a bit of both
>think that kissing and exchanging saliva is how women are fertilized, but that you'd have to kiss multiple times at different occasions for the female body to verify that the saliva donor in fact is someone who will be together with the woman for a long time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 23:00:16 No.5491433 Report

Quoted By: >>5491725

>>5490649
>>pante/plante
norwayfag?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2013 23:37:27 No.5491522 Report

Quoted By: >>5492732

>>5491193
Also Spanish. Cielo is heaven and sky too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 00:18:08 No.5491621 Report

Quoted By: >>5491629

>>5491317
Why didn't you just put a sail on the car?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 00:20:44 No.5491629 Report

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>>5491621

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 01:16:13 No.5491725 Report

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>>5491433
yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 03:29:15 No.5492020 Report

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>>5490687
I did this too.
>Be about 5
>Watching the AFL Grand Final on TV
>(I'm Australian)
>Half-time entertainment
>Kylie Minogue is performing in a mini-skirt
>Try to look under her skirt
>Get on the floor
>Place my head down on the ground
>Look up at the T.V.
>Damn!
>Still can't see what's under her skirt

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 05:02:24 No.5492183 Report

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>>5487898
>never tried to work things out for yourself
>relied on everyone to explain everything to you
That's like playing a video game by following the walkthrough word for word. Sometimes you've gotta try and figure it out for yourself. If you get it right you feel like an insta-genius, if not, you try to figure out why not and you develop logical reasoning skills.
>and you have funny as fuck stories to tell

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 05:13:17 No.5492195 Report

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>>5489498
>dat feel when irish
>whole country so retarded get 25 more points for honours maths
>those 25 points get me into my course

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 05:14:28 No.5492200 Report

Quoted By: >>5493782

>>5489505
>3 bong
>dat copypasta

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 05:30:11 No.5492232 Report

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>>5486859
SAME

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 06:58:25 No.5492451 Report

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> wonder where the wind comes from
> see how flapping stuff makes wind
> see big trees move and think that their leaves must make a lot of wind when they flap
> conclude that trees make the wind when they move

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 08:38:43 No.5492732 Report

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>>5491173
>>5491193
>>5491522

actually, i was meaning finnish. it seems like this is a pretty common thing, however.

fun fact of another way the language can affect kids: finnish language has only gender-neutral pronouns, and as a result it takes longer for finnish kids to realize their own gender and some other related stuff compared to e.g english-speaking kids.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 08:49:09 No.5492758 Report

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>>5491135
>microwave
>metal
shiggy diggy

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 08:50:42 No.5492760 Report

Quoted By: >>5493637

>>5491154
I remember when medal of honour 2 had the best graphics ever.

Do you think games will ever have better graphics than real life and we'll need to link the computer to our brain becuz our eyes are too shit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 17:47:25 No.5493637 Report

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>>5492760
Nope, because our brain isn't wired to perceive anything more real than what our senses can give us.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 19:22:23 No.5493782 Report

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>>5492200
What's this 3 bong copypasta? Google tells me nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Feb 2013 20:21:58 No.5493831 Report

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>>5491317
There was a research panel to which some politicians could ask questions regarding energy. One politician atually suggested this exact thing.
They tried to explain, but he kept insisting that they didn't understand how fucking great this idea was.

Luckily, he was ridiculed by the rest of the audience, followed by the rest of sweden once it got up on youtube. This is why STEM should be a prerequisit for any politician.

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