You know, sea monkeys seem to be a classic kid "experiment", but I've never even seen them. Would anyone like to post an image?

they're like tiny shrimp... sort of


http://www2.wind.ne.jp/maniackers/seamonkey.jpg

Hmm. Neat. Nowhere near as cool as the amazingness that is TRIOPS, though.

What exactly are sea monkeys? What species of animal are they, and what are they related to?

WHA! thats a seemonkey?!?!?! i thought they were the size of a monkey! and were brown and had tails!
and ate seabananananas!

You're basically repeating what I said. Polymer = multi-molecular chemical. And by the way, you left out monomers - a very important word in polymer chemistry, even though it's no more than one single molecule. But I ask you, what is 2, 3, 4, and 5 without 1?

Actually technically starch is two polymeric carbohydrates called amylose and amylopectin, which are complex glucose polymers. But for the sake of argument you did correctly describe the basics of it.

I still don't truely understand your implied "more organic than plastic" argument, though.

Actually, in chemistry, organic compounds are considered to be anything with carbon-hydrogen bonds. That has been established after hundreds of years of argument on the subject, and I'm not about to accept anything else from some post-graduate crammer who's forgotten the majority of what he learned.

All you want to know about sea-monkeys:
http://www.sea-monkeys.com/html/abou...atarethey.html

Then go to look around the rest of the official sea-monkey site. You wouldn't believe how many products they have.

Cool science stuff I did as a kid...

Well, my brother and I made a solor oven. It was really sweet. Sure, it took an extra long time to cook in it, but you could cook anything you wanted to. Though, us being impatient children, we mostly cooked the fast stuff...like hotdogs.

I did have an ant farm as a child, but it didn't really last long. I prefered playing with ants that were expendable...I had an infinite supply outside. I'd grab ants and drop them out a window to see if they lived...and they did. I'd also take an ant far away from his home to see if he could find his way back. Stuff like that.

I did other cool stuff, but I'll post it later.

-oddguy

...ditto on that. ;) I only left out "monomer" since that's (essentially) the same as "molecule".

Agreed - I was just half asleep and couldn't word it the way I wanted. ;) But you're right, of course, carbon-hydrogen and carbon-carbon bonds are the very backbone of organic chemistry. (Well, right apart from my gender ;) Odd that with such a feminine name people still think I'm a bloke. *headscratch* "Forgotten everything" was a bit of an exaggeration, too - I just don't think I'll ever use it in my career, which is a shame - a good proportion of four years of learning I'll never need, unless I go into industry.)

I never had seamonkies. I never heard of them until I was in my late teens and never really felt inspired to try grow them - I couldn't keep my "pet" PLANT alive, so I don't think I'd do so well at sea-monkies.

Definately fermenting Alcohol in Chemistry(aka making alcohol, which we all drank in the end and got sick)
And charging persplex rod with static electricity (thats because everyone is referring to jacking off, as we were rubbing the rod up and down)

Holee carp! The size of the image is just a little larger than the actual size of my huge-ass seamonkey. Just checked- nothing is in the seamonkey container, except mouldy crap. Mabye the corpses, exploded?!

It puzzles me how people can assume that it's possible to tell that someone is female literally without getting any clues from their forum profile and or the way they carry themselves off in their posts.

I'm not saying you're making that assumption, I'm just stating for the record, and clearing my conscience while I'm at it.

I have no way of telling that you're female, since you just act normally. Most females seem to make a point of acting female, but since you don't it's all to easy to just assume that you're male.

I hate society.

D'oh, sorry Dino. I so rarely actually have to log in here I keep forgetting my forum user name on here (Teal) is different to everywhere else (Keaalu). But then, people still seem to assume "Keaalu" is a male name as well, which just confuses me.

Yes, Super Munch. Exploded.

One time we had like a gallon jug of orange juice in the fridge, and it was maybe one-third full, and it sat in there for weeks, and it started fermenting! It was cool. There was this tiny crack in the side and there was this gas rushing out. It was sweet. I didn't drink any. I don't really like orange juice. :fuzgrin:

Your ninja foetus looks like a ninja seamonkey.

i had TRIOPS:p
they never came out.....:p
i think i even have a bag of them somewhere:p (eggs)

I have had the Creepy Crawlers as werll, along with the oven thingy, and glow in the dark latex stuff. Gawd, my room was filled with those bugs (They'd stick a bit when they was finished...).

Nowadays, I'm into nitro RC's. Anyone els had this hobby?

Sounds like something a friend of mine once. On the first day of year 11, he brought a bottle of orange juice to drink but never did. It sat in his locker all the way through the year and on the last day he took it home, only to bring it back first day year 12 and put it in his locker for another year. On graduation day he opened it (by this time the liquid was brown) and poured it out in his backyard, where it killed the grass.