re: #57 EmmmieG

Booyah! My latest science stuff order is in. A lot of what I got is basic, like spring scales and a couple new tuning forks, but I’m all excited about my spectroscope analysis kit. You make four different types of salt solution and soak some splints in the solution, then burn them. The spectroscope will show a different spectrum for each solution.

The point is that they use spectrum analysis to figure out what’s in stars, so you’re doing something like that.

This is going to be fun. Let’s burn stuff!

(If you think this sounds dumb, I’m sending your membership in the science geek club up for review.)

Sounds wonderful. Eleventy billion years ago, I used to regularly receive in the mail a catalog (the name of which I tragically can’t remember) offering stuff that was obviously intended for hardcore nerd kids. You could get things like prepared slides of various things intended to be viewed under the microscope that it was assumed you had in your bedroom; a huge variety of mechanical puzzles; and many other things. The only thing equally cool in my 10 year-old estimation was the Johnson-Smith catalog.