Comments on: I'm gonna keep going, Reege.

I'm gonna keep going, Reege.

grateful — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:04:36 -0800

Who Wants to Be An Earth Space Scientist? Complete with three separate lifelines, the Maryland Space Grant Consortium gives you the chance to test your knowledge ala WWTBAM. Plus they do a lot of other cool things, too.

By: grateful

grateful — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:06:12 -0800

So far, nobody's answered all 15 questions correctly. Who's up to the task?

By: thatwhichfalls

thatwhichfalls — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:12:54 -0800

It's amazingly hard. I crashed out on the ocean depth question, and I think their answer is wrong.

By: Dipsomaniac

Dipsomaniac — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:29:11 -0800

I think they've got more than 15 questions - I didn't see one about ocean depth. I got the one about photon mass wrong, because the question is poorly phrased (photons can have mass, but not always).

By: fvw

fvw — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:38:09 -0800

I got all 15 (using all the lifelines) on the second try, but it said I'd missed a question. No fair. Still nice though.

By: afrooz

afrooz — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:00:33 -0800

I got all 15 right using the 3 lifelines. I am a pretty big geek though! I started reading about the earth sciences when I was 8, so that gives me 9 years experience!

By: teece

teece — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:22:10 -0800

I got them all right. It's interesting though. They ask several questions that are iffy. From what I know, the period of terrestrial magnetic pole flipping is highly erratic, but they list the answer as "200,000" which is a) too certain, and b) off from the mean value I remember, which is 300,000. There seem to be several questions where the actual answer was an error band, but the "most correct" answer was not the middle of that band, which seems strange and arbitrary. But it is fun.