 ½ of Lauralie | Koala | The being in Ern's pocket | Baby Smurf | Prouf member of The Flock
Nope.
Everyone was defining stuff and Brian was just a smidge bored and he'd just lay here on his desk for a little while until the lesson progressed to something he could actually answer. But then, there was a question he wanted to ask too. So he supposed that answering questions wouldn't be all that bad. Just this one.
Hand up. "A comet is a ball of dust and gas orbiting a point in the galaxy, which ignites as it comes close to the sun." Yeah. "How come they don't melt, professor? If it's a ball of dust and ice, and it's catching fire, why is it still around eighty years later to catch fire again?" Obviously, he was talking about Hayley's comet, but it was an easy example and illustrated his point. |