• Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 days ago

    Told that joke to my daughter. Didn’t understand it. Fine, hydrogen, atoms molecules… thought one for a 10 y/o with no particular interest in science.

    But then I asked how many stars our solar system had.

    Answer: “I don’t know”

    Asked with emphasis on “our solar system”.

    Answer: “Infiite number of stars”

    Asked how many stars are in out living room

    Answer: “Zero”

    Asked how many stars are on our planet

    Answer: “Zero”

    Me thinking we are on track and that she understood the scoping error in her first assessment asking the original question again with emphasis on sun (in german its sonnensystem, I.e. sun system, so it makes sense)

    Answer: “Zero”

    Lovely seeing extrapolation in real live.