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3836931 No.3836931 [Reply] [Original]

Hey sci,

I have to make a class speech and I'm thinking of speaking about astronomy/planetary stuff. But my classmates are all space illiterate, so I might wanna have to reduce the scope of the topic and not making it hard to understand what I am speaking of.

I would like some suggestion on what kind of speech is suitable for my situation here?

>> No.3836939

Tell them about the size of all the planets in the universe.

>> No.3836947

bump

>> No.3836953

Just show them Space Engine.

>> No.3836971

yeah, just give them some astronomically big numbers and cool pictures about galaxies and stars and other cool space stuff :-)

>> No.3836977

>>3836931
give them a talk on the hamiltonian reformulation of classical mechanics

>> No.3836999

>>3836977
or derive hawking radiation for them, its a pretty easy derivation

>> No.3837036

I had to do the same exact thing when I was in 8th grade. I talked about Gamma Ray Bursts. I had a five minute window, and some of the animations amazed classmates and teachers. When talking about all the sciency stuff, I just made tons of analogies.

>> No.3837042

>>3837036
Well shit, forgot my trip. Some of the animations I got from that Universe show on the History channel. I made sure to talk about the size differences between the stars. I talked about where GRB's usually happen. To end the presentation, I talked about the Doomsday scenario and its likelyhood. Like I said, I had a five minute window.