03.19.10
Student science choice: Help fat people or shoot sharks with EMP
People wonder if the US has lost its mojo.
Well, yes. Yes it has.
There is daily proof, often from the grassroots. Here is some, beyond satire — school science projects in Delaware.
“I surveyed like 50 people and asked them if they had ever been discriminated at an amusement park because they were too short or overweight, and there actually are a lot of people who are too overweight for rides,” she said. “There were like 30 of them who were too big for at least one ride.”
Some people have to stand in line in the sun for a couple of hours before they find out they are too big to fit. Having adjustable belts could rectify that, [someone named] Meekins said.
“I don’t understand why every theme park can’t do that,” [the person named Meekins] said.
Or, there’s this:
Schoolmate Ben Ross also chose a summertime subject for his senior project: “Shark Repellent Technology.”
“I found out what sharks are allergic to is magnets. Not necessarily allergic to, but most sensitive to,” he said. “Sharks have what’s called electric sense in the tip of their nose. That’s what helps them attack prey. I figured I could make buoys that could line the shore. Then I could place an electromagnetic pulse generator on each buoy to keep sharks away during the summer.
“I figured I could turn it off from dusk to dawn, because that’s when sharks normally feed,” he added.
Well, other than they don’t really work there’s the thing that lotsa people often swim in the ocean at night.
Anti-shark electromagnetic pulse rays. This is what it’s come to?
Here.
What’s the matter with a chemical volcano , trial and error composition of gunpowder, or learning what a guinea and feather tube illustrates?