Ooooyh. My friend has a wee boy. He's 10. He is space obsessed. It is wonderful. Thing is that he's So So clever with it that most of the time people are just like ....I...don't know...anything you just said?
But last time we met I got him to engage in a debate about Pluto. I basically said 'well my generation grew up with it as a planet so it was weird for us to be told it wasn't even if we understand X, Y, Z'. So we chatted. I was just about able to follow.
I met him yesterday and he was came at me with all these reasons as to why Pluto is not a planet and he had me lost about three sentences in but I just tried to engage and make him feel part of the gathering and important as best I could. The only reasons I knew that whatever he mentioned was smaller than a neutron was because it sounded like neutron with a language suffice that meant smaller. F. M. L.
But I try keep this kid engaged.
Well yesterday he also asked me what my fave planet was and was not impressed when I said is was Earth cause you know, we live here. Is ...is Ad-something and 5 million somethings away in cause you wondered. So I said my next was Saturn because A, its pretty epic and B, because I had a friend who worked on the Cassini mission and now I'm the dog's bollocks' tbh.
But then he kept asking me Saturn questions and I was just like Idk I just know she knows and she was there at the end yay?
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Date: 2017-09-23 08:51 pm (UTC)But last time we met I got him to engage in a debate about Pluto. I basically said 'well my generation grew up with it as a planet so it was weird for us to be told it wasn't even if we understand X, Y, Z'. So we chatted. I was just about able to follow.
I met him yesterday and he was came at me with all these reasons as to why Pluto is not a planet and he had me lost about three sentences in but I just tried to engage and make him feel part of the gathering and important as best I could. The only reasons I knew that whatever he mentioned was smaller than a neutron was because it sounded like neutron with a language suffice that meant smaller. F. M. L.
But I try keep this kid engaged.
Well yesterday he also asked me what my fave planet was and was not impressed when I said is was Earth cause you know, we live here. Is ...is Ad-something and 5 million somethings away in cause you wondered. So I said my next was Saturn because A, its pretty epic and B, because I had a friend who worked on the Cassini mission and now I'm the dog's bollocks' tbh.
But then he kept asking me Saturn questions and I was just like Idk I just know she knows and she was there at the end yay?
I'm just so glad he's into it though.