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Astronomy Class Ed. Forrester opened his classroom and waited for the students to enter. He was sure to get them excited today! He had thrown out the lesson he had found for this class, and decided to do something completely different. |
Ana walked into the classroom "Hello Professor" and she let her body fall and sat down. After the past events she was a little depressed. |
Dominic entered the astronomy class, albeit unenthusiastically, and took a seat in the back. This was definitely not one of his favorite classes and there was really no sense in pretending it was ... "Greetings Professor," he nodded politely, pulling out his parchment and quill and waiting for the lesson to begin, or end rather. |
Nova entered the Astronomy classroom, taking a seat halfway between its front and the back. She was not really sure if she was excited, or even looking forward to the lesson, but she knew she had nothing to lose. Which, in the end, accounted for her presence, here. |
"Hey, Professor Forrester." Clifford nodded at his head of year with a grin as he made his way into the classroom for Astronomy and found a seat nearer the front of the room. Hopefully, today would be a cool lesson. He wanted to learn about awesome alien invasions! WOO! |
"Good day, Professor?"Jane smiled and asked the professor, while looking for a seat. Jane settled for a seat in the front row. This is after all, Astronomy. It's gotta be interesting. Planets..nom nom nom.. they looked like flavoured chocolate to her. |
Miles almost skipped into Astronomy lesson with a smile on his face. He loved Astronomy, it was the most, for him, interesting lesson he attended. "Hello Professor." He said to their head of house, and proceeded to sit a thte front as usual. |
"Good evening, class" Ed Forrester started class, "I know many of you probably think astronomy is boring. Don't think of it as Astronomy, think of it as space. Space, what is the difference in space and time? Nothing at all! And I know how important time is, so isn't space important too? "All around our planet things are happening in space, things that even affect us. The moon, for instance, causes the tide to rise and fall. What else is there that affects us? Can anyone else name just one thing?" |
Raising his hand, Keefer said, "What about meteorites? They affect us if they hit the earth." |
Things in space that affect us? Hmmm. "Well," Clifford started unsurely, raising his hand. "The sun affects us doesn't it? I mean, without it we wouldn't have light.." Uhm. |
After opening her textbook and getting ready for lesson, Evangeline gave the question some thought and raised her hand. "There is the sun, Professor. Without the sun and the warmth it sends to Earth, there'd be no life." Yup. So the sun was REALLY important. |
Dominic listened as the Professor began, differently this time. Well not think Astronomy is boring, but it most certainly is! Raising his hand at the question, Dominic tried to think of one thing. Surely this couldn't be too hard. "Hormones and adrenaline affects us..." Sure it wasn't space related, but it was true. |
Ana raised her hand "The sun is very very important" |
Shana raised her hand.Ermm Proffessor Is the sun important because if we didn't have the sun then we would have no light. |
Cale raised his hand. "Well, I dunno if the sailors still use this, but they used to use the North Star to help themselves navigate," he suggested. |
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He looked around the room, "Now, people often say that there are beings in space that help us, who can name something that 'aliens' have done for us?" |
Cale wrinkled his eyebrows. Weren't aliens like, not real? He raised his hand. "Well, not that this benefits wizards, really, but the 'alien' idea has given Hollywood a lottttt of movie plots and entertained millions of Muggles." |
Plymouth Morgan was not good at Astronomy. He didn't even MEAN to come to this class, but here he was. He raised his hand and answered, hoping this wouldn't be like the time he asked about dinosaurs. "Well, Professor, I've been looking into candy a lot lately. I found this one kind where they USE space dust in it. So, if you're me and your girlfriend is a candy-a-holic - that's pretty important." Merlin. He was about to lose points again. He just knew it. Plymouth already had the wince and regret look plastered on his face. Oh. He was late on his answer. He raised his hand again. "I think they send us shooting stars. So, that, you know, we have stuff to wish on. If I were an alien, I'd RIDE one of those shooting stars. Like a baby-abraxan. Just saying." |
Shana wasn't sure about this but she raised her hand,she was willing to give it a go for her fellow slytherins Erm Professor,Have they helped keep our planets tidy ? Shana knew it was the wrong answer but she had to give it a go. |
Did Forrester just say ALIENS!? Clifford straightened in his seat at once, suddenly more interested. What have aliens done for us? Hmmm. "They've given us a cool.. past-time, Sir." He tried, raising his hand. "Like it could be a hobby. Trying to find aliens!" OOOH! That was so neat! |
Miles raised his hand. "They give us hope that there is life on other planets?" He thought about it for a moment, and raised his hand again. "And also, people use their imagination to come up with fictional stroies about alien encounters a lot." He hadn't read any. Snort. |
Okay - this one was a bit harder. Forehead creasing in thought, Evangeline slowly raised her hand. "They have created life on Earth, Sir?" She said, but then realised she probably needed to do some explaining. "Some Muggle scientists claim that life on Earth began, many many years ago, with some teeny weeny thingies ... organic molecules, I think that's how they call them. And one of the possible origins of those molecules is outer space." So maybe that wasn't exactly what Forrester was looking for, but hey. |
"Welllll," Winnie began, "hasn't the possibility of life on other planets lead the Muggles to explore space, and to find out more about our solar system?" Her small white hand was raised tenatively. |
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"This isn't a silly topic. Just because they haven't been found as yet, doesn't mean life doesn't exist elsewhere in the universe. "In the public mind, the galaxy seems to be swarming with life, especially intelligent life. How much do we really know scientifically about the chance that life exists on other planets, however? And if life exists apart from Earth, is any of it intelligent? The first man to try and put this question on a scientific basis was Frank Drake. Drake was an astronomer who wondered whether it would be possible to discover other intelligent life by using radio waves. Drake knew since the invention of radio in the early 20th century, mankind had been accidentally announcing its existence to the rest of the galaxy by signals from its radio and TV stations. He reasoned if others could detect Earth from its radio waves, it must be possible for Earth to detect other intelligent civilizations by listening for their electronic emissions." |
Plymouth looked around for the "radio". If this chap, ForrestFire, was anything like Falsebridge -- there would be some freaky weird music coming up. No doubts. Hm. Plymouth raised his hand slowly. "Professor, I don't know scientific mumbo jumbo talk, but I'd say that we'd be pretty pea-brained, you know, small minded, to discard the idea of smart space men. And women. And animals." Were dinosaurs aliens? Plymouth resisted the urge to ask. It was still a sore subject, really. "You got a radio, Professor? You want to try and contact some aliens now?" |
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