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Originator:	Hooligan	Printable Version
Title:	My Chemistry Teacher

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From: Hooligan	On: 2009/02/26 15:32:30
used to say things like this guy http://www.iapws.org/faq1/freeze.htm at the bottom where he says 'That is why ice floats on water, for which we should all be thankful because if water behaved "normally" many bodies of water would freeze solid in the winter, killing all the life within them. ' if that was the case then the world wouldn't work the same, and if there were animals in lakes they would either leaave the lake or be able to survive. They wouldn't just needlessley die, just like animals don't climb to the top of everest and die (except us). What is it with chemists and these daft obsessions, mine used to say that if the angle in a water molecule was changed by 1 degree, none of us would be here and we should think about it and be grateful for the fact. As if we'd be all sitting in some sort of purgatory saying, aarrggh no, we can't be born and have lives because the angle of a water molecule is wrong. anyway how did he know, the world might have been better, perhaps the angle of a water molecule leads to the very most useless configuration and any other would give us better and longer lives, for all he knew. He was a decent bloke actually, just liked to laugh at his intellectual fallacies even when I was 15.

From: JOK	On: 2009/02/26 18:08:37
water is special. it is rather unique in some of its properties. without those properties, we wouldn't exist in the first place.

From: coral47	On: 2009/02/26 19:11:56
What did he say? I dozed off about half way through it.

From: Hooligan	On: 2009/02/27 04:49:05
yes JOK, but are you thankful to water for its properties? I think water's properties have made life tough and I resent it.

From: Pino Carafa	On: 2009/03/04 00:33:51
He is right; without those properties we wouldn't even exist. But why be grateful for it? If we didn't exist we wouldn't be in a position to the UNgrateful. And if properties HAD been different then, sure, we wouldn't exist, but the FSM knows what might have existed instead.

From: JOK	On: 2009/05/01 11:55:04
I'm sure no one is grateful for YOUR existence, but I, for one, am extremely grateful for my own. ;)

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