<p>What are some of the dumbest questions you guys have heard asked in class? I really want to laugh.</p>
<p>I had some guy ask so many dumb “what if” questions… A few that come to mind:</p>
<p>“What would happen if all the planets were cubes?”</p>
<p>“What would happen if you blocked up a volcano with a cork.”</p>
<p>“if you got hit by a comet, would it hurt?”</p>
<p>Future president of the united states right there.</p>
<p>“Lastly, from the Schrödinger Equation (either form of it), how would one go about modelling a real atom, for example hydrogen since it is the simpliest?”</p>
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<p>I asked a teacher what the dumbest question any student ever asked him was.</p>
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<p>OMG you’re SO smart!</p>
<p>“Cells… those are like, in atoms, right?”</p>
<p>“If evolution was true, then why haven’t we evolved into a new species since we got independence from Great Britain?” (serious question, and yes, EVERYONE laughed)</p>
<p>“What do you mean by iron deposition?” while student was making an ironing motion with her hand.</p>
<p>(We were talking about various vapor deposition techniques and I guess she wasn’t quite familiar with the word ‘ion’ by her junior year.)</p>
<p>@buriedalie
Uh… what does that question even mean? o.O It’s like… what the heck does Britain have to do with anything???</p>
<p>pie, I assume the joke is that they said “simpliest” instead of “simplest”???</p>
<p>Thus far the only dumb question I’ve ever heard asked in class came out of my own mouth, after being awake for too long after too little sleep and too much studying. I asked why a-sub-(n-1) wasn’t an index of negative one and thus zero when we plugged in two (we were doing power series, it’s a math thing). My teacher said “two minus one is one, not negative one.” So yeah, I thought 2-1=-1 because I was so out of it.</p>
<p>Evening math classes are an invention of Satan himself. I simply have no brain power leftover by then.</p>
<p>A woman in my last semester English class:
“Can I get the internet installed on my flashdrive?”</p>
<p>^loooollllllllll</p>
<p>My math class, after every example he does on the board:</p>
<p>“Is this going to be on the test?”</p>
<p>in my high school US history class last week:</p>
<p>“What were the 80’s?”</p>
<p>also, last year in my biology class: i forget the wording, but this guy basically asked if a woman could get inseminated by a plant.</p>
<p>^Why would they WANT to??</p>
<p>Both in HS Physics… both asked by me.
- during a test, I can’t solve some problem. I get panicky, go up to the teacher, and:
me: I can’t do this. You didn’t give us enough information to solve the problem.
him: what else do you need?
me: I don’t know how long it takes the earth to go around the sun.
him: <em>stares at me</em>
me: ohhhhhh.</p>
<p>2) doing some experiment, I stand up and ask “how do you know which is the sticky side of the tape??”</p>
<p>Best part: the teacher was my dad (and I’m now an engineer!!)</p>
<p>“You spelled Integral wrong”</p>
<p>That girl stopped the entire class for 30 seconds to correct the professor when it has NO significant impact on the lecture whatsoever.</p>
<p>In my biology class, we were discussing the spread of plants throughout the world. My professor asked why we thought that the civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea were the ones that were some of the most successful early on, and how the Europeans were the ones to spread disease and bring slaves to the Americas. The answer he was looking for was because that’s where the plants that were the most easily domesticated were, but one kid (who has been saying ridiculous and arrogant things all year) raised his hand and literally said, “Is it because white people evolved faster?” Seriously… in a college level biology class, too… My professor was speechless, as were the rest of us.</p>
<p>Two days later he was in an argument with someone over religion, and how he thinks that there’s no reason to believe in a God when there’s “so much overwhelming scientific proof” that there isn’t. He was trying to cite all these biological facts while getting most of them wrong. As a biology major myself, I couldn’t help but chuckle.</p>
<p>I forget the correct wording, but my AP biology teacher told us a story about how he taught freshmen kids Intro. to Biology a few years ago and he said that a kid once asked: </p>
<p>“If a woman has sex with a dog, can she give birth to puppies?!”</p>
<p>-_- <em>shakes head</em> Freshmen …</p>
<p>(After we had been studying Socrates for weeks in philosophy.)</p>
<p>A girl asked, “…How is this pronounced… Socrate-ies?”</p>
<p>A substitute teacher told me this story about a freshman girl in his Biology class.</p>
<p>They were supposed to read a passage in their bio textbooks about ecosystems and there was a photo of a Siberian tiger in the text. The teacher leans over and points, “did you know there’s only (insert number here) of these left in the wild?”
After a few seconds, the girl lifts up her head and asks, “the textbook?”</p>