{"id":278,"date":"2005-03-04T23:34:06","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T23:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/never_seen_ice.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:51","slug":"never_seen_ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/never_seen_ice.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Never Seen Ice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcbe.org\/\">my local NPR station<\/a> at work, as I usually do, and was struck by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulseplanet.com\/archive\/Mar05\/3395.html\">todays episode<\/a> of NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulseplanet.com\/\">Pulse of the Planet<\/a>.  They talked about the Tully NY ice festival that celebrates the days when ice would be cut out of a frozen lake nearby.  That got me thinking about how folks in Florida got ice?  I&#8217;m sure that I&#8217;m missing something there, but it rarely gets that cold down in Key West, what did they do?<br \/>\nThen I though about folks that live in tropical places, say on the equator a hundred or two hundred years ago.  These people probably never left their immediate area for their entire life.  It seems logical, then, that they <em>never saw ice<\/em> and probably didn&#8217;t even <em>know<\/em> that water would freeze.  Can you imagine?<br \/>\nThen I thought of all that I know and all that my daughters are being taught.  My 7 1\/2 year old brought home a protractor from school and my 6 year old is doing amazing at reading.  I know about atoms and protons, I understand trigonometry, I can tell you how plastic is molded, I understand the basics about electricity and combustion engines, I can operate a computer and a car, I know what photosynthesis is and I understand what my blood, lungs, and kidneys do.  I can remember my ATM password, my PC login, how to program my VCR and how to set the clock in my minivan.<br \/>\nRewind a thousand years and most folks can&#8217;t read.  I imagine that most can&#8217;t do more than basic math, there are no machines to speak of, no electricity, not much knowledge of medicine.  I&#8217;m amazed at the expansion of knowledge and that the human brain just keep soaking it in.  In my average, limited brain I have more knowledge than entire towns did centuries ago.  My daughters will probable know even <em>more<\/em>.<br \/>\nAmazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to my local NPR station at work, as I usually do, and was struck by todays episode of NPR&#8217;s Pulse of the Planet. 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