amazing facts!

A few days a week, I participate in the email conversations between Aimee, Julie, Sloth, and myself. These conversations are one of the few things that keep me sane.

Julie:If I had door ice, I would use ice a lot more. In my world, I only use ice cubes in the summer to make iced tea and sangria, so right now my ice cube trays are half filled as the ice has mysteriously dissolved in the freezer over the course of the winter.

Aimee: How does it do that? That’s so weird.

ESC:it evaporates*. it happens very very slowly, because of the cold. but it happens :) MYSTERY SOLVED!

Julie: Wow. Hey, ESC? Why is the sky blue? And like bluer in the summer than it is in the winter? (I ask because if you know the answer to the ice cube mystery, you must know everything.)

ESC: I can only reveal one amazing scientific fact per day. it’s why I can’t ever be a teacher. oh, that? and I hate most kids.
* OK, OK…whatever science freaks are left that still read my blog are screaming “NOOOOOO!!!!” after reading that. Because TECHNICALLY it is not evaporation. It is sublimation, which is the process of a solid state going straight to a gaseous state, skipping right over the liquid state. Just like dry ice. And yes, a BETTER scientist would have answered the question with “sublimation” and launched into a complicated explanation. And that’s why these scientists don’t get invited to the fun parties.

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