science theories by kids...hehe :)

The Latest Science Theories from Kids!
-Beguiling ideas about science from 5th and 6th grade essays, exams, and classroom discussions...
Question: What is one horsepower?Answer: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
-The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
-When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.
-When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
-Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
-We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won't drown when we breathe.
-Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.
-While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating.
-Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.
-South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.
-Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.
-Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.
-Horticulture started when Columbus landed on the bank of the Mississippi at St. Louis and taught the Indians to grill roasting ears during a massive picnic.
-A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.
-There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.
-Lime is a green-tasting rock.
-Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.
-Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.
-Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother.
-We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.
-To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
-In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's.
-Clouds are high flying fogs.
-I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.
-Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.
-Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail.
-Rain is saved up in cloud banks.
-In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.
-Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man.
-A blizzard is when it snows sideways.
-A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.
-Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
-The wind is like the air, only pushier.