Joshua: What is the hardest part of a baby to change: the diaper, shirt, pants or socks?
A: I answered diaper but sometimes shirt in a long answer involving poop
Joshua: What is the easiest?
A: pants.
Isaac: what would happen if there were two stars in the solar system?
A: We looked up binary star systems and learned about the different planetary orbits. I found thinking about day/night interesting
Isaac: So in this case it would be getting warmer and warmer and then a slight cool down because a sun is behind a sun?*
A: um, I'm not sure but I don't think so.
I: But light can only travel in straight lines, right?
A: But what if they're not on the same plane?
Isaac: could a planet's orbit be in a figure eight?
A: We looked that up too and while hypothetically possible, the middle of the eight would have to be in the perfect location every time.
I: Is the Earth changing it's orbit?
A: It turns out it is going farther away from the sun by about 1.5 cm/year
And this was just a small sampling of the questions I was asked in the last few days. However, the questions have all been pretty good questions and not nonsense questions, which make them a lot more fun to think about.
*I said I don't think so, but really I have no clue. If anyone has thoughts on this, I'm now rather curious. The point in space that we are talking about is where the green circle is below.
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