A perennial favorite, updated...perennially(?)

[DARISC]

Actual (well, maybe) 5th grade science test answers:

* One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
* You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind.
* Talc is found on rocks and on babies.
* The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
* When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms, But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.
* When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
* Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
* While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating.
* Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.
* South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.
* Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.
* Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.
* A vibration is a motion that can't make up its mind which way it wants to go.
* There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.
* There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days.
* Lime is a green-tasting rock.
* Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.
* Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should.
* Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.
* Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother.
* Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.
* We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.
* To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
* In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's.
* Clouds are high flying fogs.
* I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.
* Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.
* Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.
* Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water. We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won't drown when we breathe.
* Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail.
* Rain is saved up in cloud banks.
* In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.
* Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dog's tongue will kill the strongest man.
* A blizzard is when it snows sideways.
* A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.
* A monsoon is a French gentleman.
* Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
* Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
* It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.
* The wind is like the air, only pushier.

[wdfifteen]

"Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand."

This is true of so many things - like Porsche 911 HVAC systems.