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50. Ah, good answer 'Spock'! I love the arched eyebrow reference. It's like I was in class one...

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time, and the teacher (6th grade) had asked the students (us) what caused the tides.

I was the only one that piped up and answered 'the Moon!'. All of the students laughed at what they thought was an absurd answer. Of course the answer was right, but still, as of today, I still marvel at how some go through life, w/o discovering the wonders of life and the universe. Sometimes I wonder how in the world did we ever get a man on the moon w/ people like this around.

Don't get me wrong, I respect the auto mechanics, etc. all out in their slices of life, doing what they know best (far better than I), but some of these people I suspect think that they can live without knowing anything. Boy, will they be proven wrong as the years go by...

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Isaac Asimov - Science and science fiction writer [View all] lunatica May 2020 OP

One of my favorite authors... cayugafalls May 2020 #1

He's a favorite of mine too lunatica May 2020 #8

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A great body of work created by a deeply flawed individual. Girard442 May 2020 #46

And Jefferson... SouthernAtheist May 2020 #57

Was that a fixture of his time? I read that Albert Einstein was a big woman chaser. Blue_true May 2020 #66

TO some degree, yes. Not, I think, to the degree to which he took it. soldierant May 2020 #79

his words were so true and now we are paying for it. AllaN01Bear May 2020 #2

Nailed it. Nt BootinUp May 2020 #3

Thank you for posting this. Brother Mythos May 2020 #4

I know what a slide rule is AND lunatica May 2020 #9

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Ah, good answer 'Spock'! I love the arched eyebrow reference. It's like I was in class one... SWBTATTReg May 2020 #50

I had a similar experience in class in grade school when the teacher asked lunatica May 2020 #81

That is a good experience. I bet you got some ribbing from your classmates, but at least you got SWBTATTReg May 2020 #83

At that time I was a tomboy lunatica May 2020 #87

I was branded with the nickname "know it all" lunatica May 2020 #54

Not dim and refuse to fake it for your comfort. SouthernAtheist May 2020 #62

Wise. It's like the 'blind leading the blind' saying (no disrespect meant for our hard of ... SWBTATTReg May 2020 #47

More like the stupid leading the ignorant. Throckmorton May 2020 #53

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His writing so influenced me as a teen. I gained huge interest in science and Blue_true May 2020 #63

And main tap root of this wilful ignorance is the bad idea known as... NeoGreen May 2020 #74

KNR niyad May 2020 #78

Thanks. lunatica May 2020 #80