Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Two days at the science convention

Two days ago at the science convention, we learned what is the difference between a male squid and a female squid. The females are the one that have the big ovaries and the male are the less fat ones, which was really weird to know that the female is fatter than the male.
Liquid-nitrogen is a really cold liquid. We learned that if you but a banana in liquid-nitrogen then it gets so cold that you can hammer a nail in to a piece of wood or a wall with it, that would be how cold it can get! I knew that if you put a banana in the liquid-nitrogen it gets to be extremely cold but I did not now that you could hammer a nail into a piece of wood or a wall.
Close to the end when we were sitting down we listening to a guy talk about meteors, that come from the asteroid belt, that land right on earth and he talked about other meteors that come from planets like the one meteor that came from Mars. While he was talking about meteors he said that people just sell the meteors that they found because they thought it was just a weird rock.
Well all the things that I talked about were really interesting.

1 comment:

  1. Why is it weird that the female squids are bigger than the males? When you look at the animal world there are actually a lot of animals that have females being larger than the males, remind me to tell you about this.
    So the bananas got so cold in the liquid nitrogen, that they actually froze!
    Oh and the people who sold the meteors didn't actually always know that the rocks weren't meteors, instead they were selling them BECAUSE they were meteors and people pay a lot of money for them.

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