Subject: The Horrors of Tenure
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 07:03:04 EST
"The Horrors of Tenure"
My 8th-grade science teacher was amazing. She
insisted that space was filled with hydrogen. Not
completely wrong, you say? Well, in fact, she
said that there was so much hydrogen in space
that you could hear sound in it. "How else would
the moon walkers talk to each other?" she argued.
And this is also the reason that space ships are
streamlined -- to avoid the friction from all that
hydrogen.
But it doesn't stop there. Her quizzes (closed book,
mind you) had questions like, "Sketch the figure on
page 300," and "What is the magic number?" She
also insisted that a "light year" was a measurement
of time.
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"They Only Come Out At Night"
[I remember] when I was in high school and was
in an advanced physics class. Keep in mind that
these students were supposed to be the ones
more capable of understanding and going much
further with some pretty advanced stuff.
Well, our teacher was a hobby astronomer, with
some pretty nice camera and telescope equipment.
One day he brought in some pictures he had taken
of the sun to see the sunspots etc. During the
"slide-show," one of the students asked:
"Were these pictures taken during the day or
at night?"
After a couple of minutes of uproarious laughter
from the rest of the class, he finally realized his
mistake.
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