So Theme Thursday again, and I managed to guess the theme in advance. That has not made it any easier to find something to say. After ANIMAL, then VEGETABLE, it was no shock that this week we're talking MINERAL.
What do I talk about? What photograph to show?
Minerals are everywhere, and in everything! Do I show everything? Nothing? BAH!
I could talk about the reliance on mineral exports to China, Japan and (a lesser extent), India, that Australia's economy developed. We used to make stuff with our stuff. Now we sell stuff to other people to make stuff to sell stuff to us. More cheaply, of course.
But what photograph?
BAH!
So I'm looking around the office, for something to photograph. I'm thinking "c'mon, it can't be hard, minerals are everywhere!" Yet in being too common it's just too hard.
So I settled on the light right above my head. Figuring that I might get a halfway interesting photo out of it, I take the snap. There has to be a host of mineral-related action in the workings of the humble fluorescent tube.
Then I read about it.
Then I realised why I spent most of my high school science lessons trying to look up the skirts of girls sitting on stools opposite.
It's... just... so... [I don't want to say dull]...
So I will give you the shorthand explanation of the magic of the fluorescent light, slightly sexed up to keep the punters awake.
A fluorescent tube is a gas-discharge lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapour. That is, the electric current is all about sexy young electrons getting jiggy with the protons. Man, this little show starts getting our MINERAL (mercury vapour) just a little bit toey and hot under the collar. So, these horny old mercury atoms in their own special way start spitting out short-wave ultraviolet light - the saucy cow that SHE is - then causes phosphor [another MINERAL] to fluoresce, producing visible light.
Oooh baby, STOP! Man, I need a cold shower.
Ain't science grand?
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Hehehehe...enough lecture with all those capital letters to get everything across :-P.
I like that picture. It is really abstract and also has a mysterious feeling around it. Nice pic.
Maybe I needed better teachers. They never sexed it up for me. Too many numbers and symbols without concrete concepts for me to cling to.
cheers!
Distance and vast, harsh climates (in differing ways, cold vs hot) mean that Canadians and Australians are quite similar.
Doc
No one ever explained it in all the things I read and all the meetings I attended in such a sexy way.
Maybe more people would like science and math, if it was taught in a more jovial manner.
I do. It can almost be as sexy as science. If I could only explain it the way you do...
They have a show called "How it is Made" on TV and they were showing how the fluoresent bulbs were made. It was pretty interesting, but nothing like how you explained it.
Hope you had a great shower.
God bless.
lol
Peace
xoxo
I couldn't help myself.
you talked about science teacher which reminds me of one I had,she was a lesbian and she would always sat down next to you on your table and..hey see,I'll be a great teacher too :D
A lesbian teacher would have little interest in me.
When I did go to Geology 101 I remember one class consisted of us all calf deep in a river collecting samples..would have been prime time to look up skirts!
Not one!
I'm still bitter.