Science fact confession time

[Ulti]

I knew that either from GCSE or A level physics too but otherwise I wouldn't have known that.

Did the quiz thing and whilst it wasn't hard, I'm surprised I did manage to get 11/12 still. The only contact I have with science nowadays is sci-fi films. Then again I did only do my A levels around 5 years ago so that wasn't too long ago. Got the last one wrong as I thought astrology was when people go star gazing but didn't relate that to it affecting human behaviour but now that I think about it, things like the zodiac and horoscopes etc are somewhat based on astrology aren't they?

Like most, I just guessed for the vaccine question as the other 3 were unlikely to have found the cure.

[TheAnimus]

This is why you drink green tea on mountains, as you don't want the water to be so hot!

As people have said, it's all due to pressure. I was struggling to breath at 3000m on Mt Beut because I'm an asthmatic. And a bit to much of a fatty lardarse.

[TooNice]

I knew that, but through hiking rather than textbooks.. I could also answer that it is due to pressure but the "why" wasn't something I could explain without looking up.

[TheAnimus]

TooNice think of compression and expansion, heating and cooling, how a fridge or freezer works.

[b0redom]

. Got the last one wrong as i thought astrology was when people go star gazing but didn't relate that to it affecting human behaviour but now that i think about it, things like the zodiac and horoscopes etc are somewhat based on absolutely no scientific basis whatsover.

ftfy

[ik9000]

I knew that. GCSE. More fleshed out at A-level, and then in detail at uni with the refrigeration coolant charts. Lovely equations about PV=nRT, enthalpy, latent heat and all those equations.

Can't get the quiz to open. Just gives me a blank screen. Weird.