Last night was the Science Fair at the Lone Star Girl's school. She is in the 5th grade and this is the first year she has done an experiment with a partner. Their experiment (done with some equipment at the local university that I would not have known existed had the girls not set the whole thing up with someone there) proved that there was more dissolved oxygen in water that had been chilled than in not-chilled water...to the best of my understanding. They won a medal for Honorable Mention! I was very proud of them, though the Lone Star Girl was in a bratty mood because she wanted to advance to the district-wide competition. The competition at her school is tough, though. She skipped entering in 3rd and 4th grade - her school only requires 5th-graders to enter - but also won Honorable Mention in first grade when she attacked some audio recordings with magnets and monitored their degradation. Her highest award was in second grade for her project on sargassum and beach erosion. I am totally impressed by her scientific prowess, regardless of her snottiness, and am very proud of her. I'm counting on her to get folks to Mars someday.
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WTG Lone Star Girl! I am impressed, too.
People on Mars would be so wonderful.
Yeah, she's been talking about terraforming on and off since she was in kindergarten. I have to admit to some moral qualms on the topic, but it does seem to be the only way our species will survive. She prefers the idea of Titan to Mars as a terraforming subject due to its atmosphere but admits that it is probably too far to be first.
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