QQC #4

Quote: "Wistar failed completely to recognize the bone's significance and merely made a few cautious and uninspired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper. He thus missed the chance, half a century ahead of anyone else, to be the discoverer of dinosaurs. Indeed, the bone excited so little intrest that it was put in a store room and eventually dissaperared altogether. So the first dinosour bone ever found was also the first to be lost."

Question: Who discovered the first dinosaur? What made them think of this creature called the dinosaur? How do they know they assembeled them in the correct way the first time?

Comment: I think its ironic that he found this bone and didn't even look into finding out what it was! He just pushed it aside and went on with his life, when really he could have made this biggest discovery in his career.

QQC #3

Quote: "Starting with his back against the Tower of London, Norwood spent two devoted years marching 208 miles north to York, repeatedly stretching and measuring a length of chain as he went, all the while making the most meticulous adjustments for the rise and fall of the land and the meanderings of the road."
Question: How do we know that he didn't make a mistake? There are so many calculations he needed to make, so what if he is off by a couple miles?
Comment: I think that this is astounding what he did, I would never have the Patience to walk and measure that far. I also think its amazing that with all the technology we have nowadays that back in this time, to measure the length around the world they had to walk a section of it just to get an approximation reading.

QQC #2

Quote: "...If you added lots of folded-out pages to your textbooks or used a really long sheet of poster paper, you wouldn't even come close. on a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distance. On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star would be almost ten thousand miles away. even if you shrank it down everything so that Jupiter was as small as the period at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger then a molecule, Pluto would still be over thirty-five feel away."
Comment: I never knew this, I always believe the scales that you see in textbooks, the planets are all the same distance away and now I realise that is not the case. they are all REALLY far away and would take years and years just to reach the closest one. I have always been interested in the solar system, but it always confuses me to try to learn about it, it seems so complicated and confusing.
Question: I want to know if there is another planet in our solar system that we could possibly live and thrive on, or if not then is there in the entire universe?

QQC #1

Quote: "and when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things."

Question: I want to know more about the oceans and their salinity, does it fluctuate? or does it change at all with the rain water or lakes emptying into it?

Comment: I really like this quote, it is describing death in a way I never thought to hear it as. I think it opens our eyes to a new look on dying.