I’m nearly 35 and still think about it.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Look at it this way – at least someone in class learned something that day, which is the point of going to class and teachers!
***BREAKING NEWS: EIGHTH GRADER GOT A QUESTION WRONG***
He’s never going to live this one down
Technically, it *can* rise if there was enough ice that it was sitting on a solid surface. IE, the ice caps melting because the continental shelf Antarctica is on top of is supporting the ice. Thus, the water level rises, as it is now a fluid and can spread to equal distributions instead of being stacked on top of one area.
Those really cringey memories never go away, do they?
It took me until I was about 15 to understand why the melting ice doesn’t cause the water level to rise.
I mean to be fair, it’s not an awful guess. Water just happens to be the only substance that is more dense in its liquid form than its solid form
Thats why you form a hypothesis, then you do research as to why you might have been wrong, and then the science project is about archemedes principle
Ha! Mine was shoot down by the teacher instantly as soon as she read my proposal. “Does electricity work underwater?”
Then my next was was just as fast “How heavy is a rock?”
I was in the fifth grade.
I mean… if you’re looking at ice, it’s expanded from its water form… the obvious answer would be “yea it will rise”. Cause there’s more frozen ice than the original amount of water that froze since it’s expanded.
It takes more than just a cursory glance to remember that the water that it is in is already higher than it would be for the same reason: the ice expanded.
So you were a child and didnt understand physics. Which is probably why you were in school – to learn.
Wtf is the confession and your next meme should be confessing how badly you fucked up using the confession bear at 35.
See you when youre 62 and you feel comfortable making your next “confession”