Still working on an Once a scout, always a scout...
I was, really, in Iceland - learned useful skills, like how to make a snow cave when a sudden summer blizzard catches you on a hike, how to make a fire in a country with no trees, and how to make "flour bombs".
Excellent. Especially when by court order the scouts went co-ed (1977 I think) and subsumed the girl scouts. Camping trips became something else entirely.
So now that World's Fair and a host of others has established the Order Of The Science Scouts Of Exemplary Repute And Above Average Physique
Since I, more than most, do deeply grieve for the slow miserable death of the Hubble Space Telescope, I must join, and acquire badges.
Hey, I think I still have my regulation khaki shirt from when I was 12 somewhere... I know I have the very useful and versatile neckerchief, in regulation green, with leather knot (it can be used for anything - improvised gas mask, sunshade, field stretcher construction, bandaging wounds, tying up enemy captives... [people tend to forget the "scouts" originated as army auxillaries - local light infantry scouts... read the book!])
Talking science: ✓
Blog science - duh: ✓
Open Flame - the year I reflex caught the molten glass we were extruding, with my bare hand: ✓
Award for most gratuitous use of "sexy" in a talk at Aspen Winter Workshop!: ✓
Iced stuff - colluded on a "grad pumpkin" for the Great Halloween Pumpking Drop: ✓
Nature and Science: ✓
It is all relative, but I'll claim this one on merit. Definition was set by biologists...: ✓
Useless science - Dept. Astronomy - natch: ✓
Self-explanatory: ✓
Mandatory - duh: ✓
Electric Shock - Level II - I owe one of my cousins an apology: ✓
Electric shock - Level III - first thing I did after being told not to in "first grade" was find an empty hallway and stick my finger in the socker. I woke up on the other side of the hallway. Just luck I guess: ✓
Dood.
Already sent in telescope suggestions.
(course that might cost me my theory badge...)
Where is the "booted a computer using the front toggles to enter the boot sequence" badge?
