It was pure chance and she isn't going to be the one researching its uses so well done little girl, you discovered something by accident and will have no involvement in making it useful.
Bollocks. Real adult scientists with coats and degrees and labs and everything discover shit by accident all the time, sometimes while making stupid mistakes, and they still take full credit for it. Lil' Clara deserves just as much. Granted she's not a child prodigy for this 'discovery', but plenty of non-qualified people have discovered and created stuff, so. Credit due.
And good on the teacher for recognizing the potential here, embracing a child's desire to learn rather than waving it off because she's 'just a kid with a toy'. All teachers need to be this attentive and encouraging.
You bumped this thread from february to tell me that?
Anyway, if you want to know my response just read the thread, I'm sure youll find a few similar posts to yours that I answered.
Oh shhhhiiiifiwefiwuhe bollocks I didn't see the date. I saw the thread linked under 'most popular' and just got my post on.
I don't care that much, I just made a comment showing my utter apathy for her which has "offended" many people as we aren't showering this child with praise.
Every week scientists make great discoveries but barely anyone cares, a child randomly does it and suddenly it's news?
Yes. Yes it is. Think about it this way - What do scientists do for a living? They try and discover things. So, logically, what do you expect them to do? Discover things. It's the expected result. Now, random kid playing around with a bunch of molecule models. What do you expect? Not for them to find a new theoretical element, that's for sure. It's unexpected, ergo, news. And yes, you could say that throwing about a bunch of kids and molecule models would end up getting this again through random chance, (Though the probability may not actually work out like that seeing as how it's not a truly random result.) But the fact is that the probability is low enough that when it happens, we can all say "well, didn't see that coming! Talk about a news story!"
So, yeah, maybe the girl doesn't deserve the attention for randomly finding an element by accident. The story deserves sharing, though. It's a new theoretical element, and if it works or not, it's still a semi-big discovery.
I don't care that much, I just made a comment showing my utter apathy for her which has "offended" many people as we aren't showering this child with praise.
Every week scientists make great discoveries but barely anyone cares, a child randomly does it and suddenly it's news?
Yes. Yes it is. Think about it this way - What do scientists do for a living? They try and discover things. So, logically, what do you expect them to do? Discover things. It's the expected result. Now, random kid playing around with a bunch of molecule models. What do you expect? Not for them to find a new theoretical element, that's for sure. It's unexpected, ergo, news. And yes, you could say that throwing about a bunch of kids and molecule models would end up getting this again through random chance, (Though the probability may not actually work out like that seeing as how it's not a truly random result.) But the fact is that the probability is low enough that when it happens, we can all say "well, didn't see that coming! Talk about a news story!"
So, yeah, maybe the girl doesn't deserve the attention for randomly finding an element by accident. The story deserves sharing, though. It's a new theoretical element, and if it works or not, it's still a semi-big discovery.
Again, read the thread. I have most likely answered your "insightful" post multiple times when this thread was ongoing in February.
I didn't even read your post as I know it won't be original in any shape or form.
I don't care that much, I just made a comment showing my utter apathy for her which has "offended" many people as we aren't showering this child with praise.
Every week scientists make great discoveries but barely anyone cares, a child randomly does it and suddenly it's news?
Yes. Yes it is. Think about it this way - What do scientists do for a living? They try and discover things. So, logically, what do you expect them to do? Discover things. It's the expected result. Now, random kid playing around with a bunch of molecule models. What do you expect? Not for them to find a new theoretical element, that's for sure. It's unexpected, ergo, news. And yes, you could say that throwing about a bunch of kids and molecule models would end up getting this again through random chance, (Though the probability may not actually work out like that seeing as how it's not a truly random result.) But the fact is that the probability is low enough that when it happens, we can all say "well, didn't see that coming! Talk about a news story!"
So, yeah, maybe the girl doesn't deserve the attention for randomly finding an element by accident. The story deserves sharing, though. It's a new theoretical element, and if it works or not, it's still a semi-big discovery.
Again, read the thread. I have most likely answered your "insightful" post multiple times when this thread was ongoing in February.
I didn't even read your post as I know it won't be original in any shape or form.
Seem to have made the same mistake as the last bloke that "got his thread on"... I did actually read through the responses, and honestly, I did see a few that addressed my thing eventually. Then I looked for your response to those. I. Found. Nothing. So, yes, unoriginal, but then again, maybe it deserves to be brought to your attention one more time, seeing as how it slipped by you the last 5 or 6 times, because it seems you just started to dismiss everything as "U'r a bigg meanie for being mean to girl waaah."
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Yes. Yes it is. Think about it this way - What do scientists do for a living? They try and discover things. So, logically, what do you expect them to do? Discover things. It's the expected result. Now, random kid playing around with a bunch of molecule models. What do you expect? Not for them to find a new theoretical element, that's for sure. It's unexpected, ergo, news. And yes, you could say that throwing about a bunch of kids and molecule models would end up getting this again through random chance, (Though the probability may not actually work out like that seeing as how it's not a truly random result.) But the fact is that the probability is low enough that when it happens, we can all say "well, didn't see that coming! Talk about a news story!"
So, yeah, maybe the girl doesn't deserve the attention for randomly finding an element by accident. The story deserves sharing, though. It's a new theoretical element, and if it works or not, it's still a semi-big discovery.
Again, read the thread. I have most likely answered your "insightful" post multiple times when this thread was ongoing in February.
I didn't even read your post as I know it won't be original in any shape or form.
Seem to have made the same mistake as the last bloke that "got his thread on"... I did actually read through the responses, and honestly, I did see a few that addressed my thing eventually. Then I looked for your response to those. I. Found. Nothing. So, yes, unoriginal, but then again, maybe it deserves to be brought to your attention one more time, seeing as how it slipped by you the last 5 or 6 times, because it seems you just started to dismiss everything as "U'r a bigg meanie for being mean to girl waaah."
TL,DR for your pleasurePHA+SSdtIG5vdCBzYXlpbmcgdGhlIGdpcmwgZGVzZXJ2ZXMgcHJhaXNlLiBOb3QgYXQgYWxsLiBJJ20ganVzdCBzYXlpbmcsIGFjY2lkZW50YWwgb3Igbm8sIGl0J3Mgc3RpbGwgYmlnIGVub3VnaCBmb3IgbmV3cy4gVGhhdCdzIG15IHBvaW50LjwvcD4=
I never said it wasn't big enough for news, thanks to the net anything can be news.
When I said "suddenly it's news" I meant news that someone cared about. You rarely see the escapist posting a science related article but this somehow warrants attention compared to the work other people do all the time, I find that to be bullshit and that's what I meant.
Also, it's not semi big at all. It's small, it's just yet another carbon chain that we will likely never hear about ever again.
I never said it wasn't big enough for news, thanks to the net anything can be news.
When I said "suddenly it's news" I meant news that someone cared about. You rarely see the escapist posting a science related article but this somehow warrants attention compared to the work other people do all the time, I find that to be bullshit and that's what I meant.
Also, it's not semi big at all. It's small, it's just yet another carbon chain that we will likely never hear about ever again.
Good point. Personally, I think it's less about the fact that a new probably-not-very-useful-but-who-knows element (And seeing as how no new developments have yet cropped up, it's starting to look like it might be either only theoretical or just not very useful.) And more the fact that it was randomly discovered by a ten year old.
It's sort of like the planets aligning or something - it's random chance, it's pretty much going to happen after a length of time, (Though, the planets aligning is more a set period of time then just random chance.) and it doesn't do shit for us, but people still get a little excited because "Hey, this rare/timed/something event happened in MY lifetime! I saw it! Cool!" Or something along those lines, at least.
I never said it wasn't big enough for news, thanks to the net anything can be news.
When I said "suddenly it's news" I meant news that someone cared about. You rarely see the escapist posting a science related article but this somehow warrants attention compared to the work other people do all the time, I find that to be bullshit and that's what I meant.
Also, it's not semi big at all. It's small, it's just yet another carbon chain that we will likely never hear about ever again.
Good point. Personally, I think it's less about the fact that a new probably-not-very-useful-but-who-knows element (And seeing as how no new developments have yet cropped up, it's starting to look like it might be either only theoretical or just not very useful.) And more the fact that it was randomly discovered by a ten year old.
It's sort of like the planets aligning or something - it's random chance, it's pretty much going to happen after a length of time, (Though, the planets aligning is more a set period of time then just random chance.) and it doesn't do shit for us, but people still get a little excited because "Hey, this rare/timed/something event happened in MY lifetime! I saw it! Cool!" Or something along those lines, at least.
I think that's more to do with scale.
"Hey, multiple objects that are on a scale I cannot even fathom are about to align whilst hurtling insanely fast through space".
Compare that with
"A girl randomly found a carbon chain which will likely be put in a book and will never be seen from again".
I know I'm heavily biased but I think the planets aligning are a little bit more exciting.
"Hey, multiple objects that are on a scale I cannot even fathom are about to align whilst hurtling insanely fast through space".
Compare that with
"A girl randomly found a carbon chain which will likely be put in a book and will never be seen from again".
I know I'm heavily biased but I think the planets aligning are a little bit more exciting.
Again, good point. I guess that was a bad example, but the same basic idea can be attached to other random chance happenings, so at least it's a possibility. Makes more sense then the escapist being very VERY interested in whatever this possibly-unobtanium does.
Although, the news article did mention it could have great power and may blow stuff up, which is always a plus for a lot of people.
Oh shhhhiiiifiwefiwuhe bollocks I didn't see the date. I saw the thread linked under 'most popular' and just got my post on.
I feel a right arse.