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Overheard: radioactive element counting

Astronomy 210, Spring Semester 2009
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

(Overheard in lecture during an in-class activity on comparing ratios of radioactive and daughter elements in samples to determine relative radioactive ages.)

Instructor: (Seeing a student quickly counting up all elements on the worksheet) "Look at you--getting all Rain Man on this."

Student 1: "I am an excellent driver."

(Beat.)

Student 2: "You so did not just quote that movie, did you?"

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