Someone has been watching too much science channel. I know, I watch it all the time as well. :thumbup:
I'm lucky that I have a daughter who's totally fascinated by this stuff, and we have long discussions about this. Sometimes I tell her something new (to her), and sometimes I learn something new from her. Last week, we went out and took a series to build up an image showing star-trails. Checked out the planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Mars), and the various sights. Was damn cold though (-24C) and fortunately the camera worked find with the Magic Lantern intervalometer while we took refuge in a warm car. Yesterday, she and her boyfriend were at the house for breakfast, and my wife decided to donate my organic chemistry model set, and they spend the next several hours building various molecules. Much better than Lego. Turns out she has a molecule-modeling software on her laptop and they were reproducing the molecules she was studying with the model set.
A had another daughter complain to me about the degree of change around her, and I mentioned that for someone sitting on a piece of slag floating on top of molten rock, she's too concerned about the little details - she was totally freaked out - and tried to expunge the knowledge from her consciousness. Eh. Some are comfortable with the "big picture" stuff, some are not.
And yeah. I got the title "pompous pontificator" at another (non-photographic) forum. :blushing: