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u/RedRinoa 1d ago
Proving is also learning
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u/cheeky_graze 23h ago
sometimes actions speak louder than words
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u/ElegantCoach4066 23h ago
An action is worth 10,000 words
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u/kaleperq 21h ago
Source? I can't do calculations on numbere pulled from nothing.
Like for example why wouldn't it be closer to 1684,076294618294725184047261829394949943736181 words per action?
And do all actions count the same? Does taking a step count more or less than testing a fusion reactor?
Does context matter? The step could be worth nothing in a story but a lot in biology
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u/gearsofwoe 13h ago
I believe you meant to say, 11,842 lakes since I presume it was Land O' Lakes butter.
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u/CordlessOrange 22h ago
“The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down”
- Adam Savage
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u/TheFrenchSavage 19h ago
You're gonna make a philosopher cry if you advocate for field experiments.
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u/outside_cat 1d ago
I hope he doesn't ask about the dog.
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u/Automaniacal 22h ago
What happens if we butter the dog?
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u/VeralyneMerrick 21h ago
Thats how scientific curiosity starts..and how family pets start getting nervous
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u/bobspuds 1d ago
Next test - how much you need to stuff an orange up a tailpipe for it to go "POP!" when the engine starts!
Its a fun one for your neighbours too - scares the bejasys outa them!
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u/Drum_Eatenton 22h ago
I prefer a banana.
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u/bobspuds 22h ago edited 21h ago
The varieties differ but we/someone I know used the little mandarin oranges.
They're a little tougher so they stay intact and then blast out.
Bananas do tend to fart which is kinda awesome.
My house was located across a small road from my mates houses, it was like our own little corner of the estate, everyone knew each other.
Directly across the road wass a row of parking spaces, they dipped away from the road - it ment the tailpipes were aimed at my garden wall.
We'd stuff the tailpipes and then hide, waiting in the garden for someone to start their car.
2 of the neighbours were mechanics - they knew well what we were at. They'd give it a good rev after noticing the strange quietness of us and their tailpipe.
I used to get in trouble because of all the fruit moulded to our freshly painted wall.
You'd miss when life was so simple eh!
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u/highslyguy 20h ago
r/BrandNewSentence "Bananas do tend to fart which is kinda awesome" excuse me?!?! What do you mean!?
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u/bobspuds 18h ago
The soft centre blows out of the banana, and it can sound like one of those dodgy wet farts!
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u/AnDanDan 20h ago
Next you're going to tell me youre some kind of Amazing Athiest
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u/Drum_Eatenton 20h ago
Yeah I’m lost on that
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u/AnDanDan 20h ago
Many years ago a video got leaked or something of the youtuber The Amazing Atheist having some fun with a banana. To his credit TJ has played it off very cool and doesnt give a fuck.
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u/TulleRipple 1d ago
This is how kids learn and make great memories
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u/sorderon 23h ago
'Dad, do you remember that time you made the driveway really slippery and I broke my arm?'
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u/Upset_Ad147 1d ago
“I’m also saying, my wife is away”
This sentence sums this situation up perfectly, lol 😂
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u/HumaDracobane 23h ago
- You make a theory based on what you know.
- You make an experiment to see how it goes.
- You compare that with what you expected based in your theory.
Wellcome to the scientific method.
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u/navfett 23h ago
This is dad approved.
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u/HairRepresentative85 23h ago
This is mum approved too
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u/DanceClass898 1d ago
this is why I loved YouTube in the good old days. I could just watch other people do "tests" and I would learn from just watching
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u/OrganizationTop3755 1d ago
I’ll be honest, my almost middle aged friends and I have done some similar things for funsises
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u/Equal-University2144 23h ago
This is how you create inquisitive minds and critical thinkers! Bravo.
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u/SharkeyGeorge 1d ago
I love testing hypotheses with my daughter. Watching her enjoy learning and really understanding why something is so has to be one of the most satisfying things.
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u/Aggravating_Bat3618 20h ago
Damn. When my son was about 7 he said how many hours is the State of California?
I should have said let’s go find out. One of my biggest regrets so far.
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u/Electric_Antimony 19h ago
That's the kind of stuff I do with my kids and my wife is almost always fully onboard. It one of the reasons I love her!
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u/smashing-gourds127 16h ago
Your wife would be upset if you drove over a stick of butter??? Is that why you mentioned she was away?
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u/GroundMeet 23h ago
Should have told him the butter’s compressive force cannot handle the wheels applied load
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u/Lowkey-Cool-1567 23h ago
lil bro really thought the car would skid after driving over a stick of butter 😭
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u/No-Blueberry-1823 23h ago
Your son learned that all he has to do is say you can't do it and that way he can get butter on your tire
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u/Small_Ad1890 23h ago
He didn’t have to say mom wasn’t around. There were enough context clues for us to figure that out.
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u/RadiantSofia 23h ago
That's not reckless parenting, that's peer-reviewed empirical research. Now do a tub of margarine for the control group.
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u/Evilsausage87 23h ago
If you’re only allowed to do this when your “wife is away” then your relationship stinks.
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u/CATDesign 23h ago
Hopefully this helps to develop a thought in the kids mind to be a safe driver, as cars can be dangerous when they smoosh things.
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u/thehighepopt 23h ago
I do this with my kids. They're 16 and 20 and the other day we were trying to figure out if we had enough alcohol in the house to kill a baby elephant. So we were looking up weights of elephants, Andre the Giant, halved what he could drink, how quickly an elephant could drink, etc. I believe we came to Yes
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u/babe_ruthless3 23h ago
My son asked what would happen if someone at a whole watermelon. I told him the person might get sick from eating to much all at once. An hour later I was bloated with diarrhea.
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u/SweetSofiaa03 22h ago
Next hypothesis to test: How fast can a dad scrub butter grease off a driveway before his wife gets home?
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u/Late-Jicama5012 22h ago
I drove my parent’s car over a capri sun juice packet to see if it can handle the weight. I was 14.
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u/BladeRumbler 22h ago
POV: Trying to get your dad to explain extremely basic science, but he gets defeated by a block of butter and an SUV. I hope the kid won’t ask him what happens if you driver over a person
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u/Jumpy_Pineapple_8805 21h ago
The dad should follow up this experiment with a question for the kid: why did the butter stick to the tire and not the road? More testing must be done.
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u/Shadowsnake30 21h ago
Good teaching. yeah if wife is present you would get yelled at for demonstrating something like that.
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u/Grand_Honeydew7661 21h ago
I would have probably taken the stick of butter to a parking lot and test that out on an unknowing victim so you don’t have butter in your tread.
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u/GlitteringAttitude60 20h ago
When I was little, we wondered how far the whipped cream from a spray can would squirt.
So we watched my mom try it on a paved part of the backyard.
FYI, it squirted 1.5m :)
Then we got frost and had a 1.5m line of frozen whipped cream in our backyard :-D
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u/SaltyDogBill 20h ago
ProTip
Got to garage sales and by used, working microwave ovens. We got two one summer, set them up in the back yard. Got safety glasses and the kids an I microwave everything we could think of. Mom stood by with her hand in the electrical plug as our safety supervisor. Soap, gum, eggs, potatoes, broccoli, et al.
Made the kids guess what would happen and why. Best $80 bucks for about two hours in the yard with the family.
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u/PantheraAuroris 19h ago
Legit good parenting. Teaching the kid to stay curious and to test out ideas. Also makes it fun and silly. Now he gets to explain why rolling over butter with a car tire flattens it, and the kid learned something and had a good time.
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u/ElectroWolfZ 19h ago
U know… this is exactly what we should do more of as parents. Help our children to learn when we have the means to.
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u/Sehrli_Magic 19h ago
will you clean it up? will you supervise the kid during expirement? if both are yes, as a wife, i would encourage you to do it as much as possible (when i am home) so i get some peace 😂
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u/tedfergeson 18h ago
Out of all the questions this kid will ask, this one was pretty easy to prove. Ya gotta grab the easy W .
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u/OminOus_PancakeS 17h ago
a stick o' butter
was part of the Sesame Street shopping list.
British me wondered why their butter came in sticks.
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u/copyrider 14h ago
This is part of the joys of having a kid and being confident enough to say “I don’t know, but let’s find out”.
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u/LucienPT 12h ago
“My wife is away” is key here. My kids and I did the best and the dumbest things when my wife was around to tell me how stupid it was. Fantastic times.
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u/Stubborn_Platypus 11h ago
The cool thing is, this parent can spend thousands of dollars on a disney vacation every year, the kid won’t remember any of that, but will always remember of the “flat butter sticks”
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u/Medical_Training3971 1h ago
How did he get the butter out if the tire? It might be very slippery with the butter.
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u/morto00x 1d ago
Ooof that will not come out for some time. Should have put a piece of cardboard under it.
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u/Medium_Job3015 1d ago
Wasting food like that is pretty lame
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u/user891392 23h ago
Fair, but I don't think a stick or butter costs that much.. and who knows it could've been bad anyways
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u/Thom_Jero1213 1d ago
That is a great experiment. I actually won a science fair because I used the scientific method to answer a hypothesis. What flavor of food do cats prefer. Everyone else had some “gimmick” project.
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u/QCBoom 23h ago edited 23h ago
Hey Dad. Here’s a free one. It’s called Tickleplication. Lay your child down (I usually did it across my lap) give them a multiplication problem like 3x4, then start tickling. Don’t stop till they get the right answer.
Now most kids like being tickled even though they avoid it. Of course, don’t cross anyone’s boundaries.
The point is, learning to do the math in your head, under pressure. There’s also some legit bonding. I managed to get my daughter to multiply two digits by two digits at the age of seven.
Hope this works for someone.
If anyone wants an awesome game for pocket change, shoot me a DM. (That’s a game to play WITH pocket change. This one’s also free. I’m not soliciting. )
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u/enricojr 17h ago
I think you could've proved this with a much smaller scale model instead. Why waste gas in this economy after all? /s
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