The Moment I Knew I Was A Science Geek (SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO)

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[Chipper1]

04:53 PM on 04/06/2012

When I bought and read a book "Physics of the Impossible" by Michio Kaku and I have never had a physics course in my life. It was fascinating!

[wsirons]

05:52 PM on 04/04/2012

This may sound a little silly, but it's my story and I'm sticking with it. I was born July 13, just one week before the moon landing. My mom says I was glued to the TV like everybody else while Neil made his historic speech. I've been a science geek ever since.

[SciFiChickie]

11:58 AM on 04/04/2012

I have always had a passion for SciFi and math thanks to my dad, and Daddy daughter time...

But my Ah Ha moment when I knew I was a "Science Geek" was...

When my U.S. Air force recruiter told me the job the ASVAB said I tested best for was Aerospace Ground Equipment specialist.

[Ayminole]

01:49 AM on 04/01/2012

The moment when Neil deGrasse Tyson informed me that every atom in my body had once been part of a star, and I got goosebumps.

[ungroundedfaith]

07:28 PM on 03/31/2012

I knew the moment my international model girlfriend gave me the ultimatum between her/religion/finance career and heading back to school to study bioengineering/attend med school for neurology. Sorry, i'd rather understand the world around me... haven't talked to her in 3 months.

[baronessvb1]

06:08 PM on 03/31/2012

It all started with making a volcano and using baking soda and vinegar - :)

[lstjames1]

02:58 PM on 03/30/2012

I knew I was a science geek as a small child. The minute I opened a book or heard someone speaking about the world around us in scientific terms, I entered the "zone." This "zone" is an intense focus and everything around me is in suspended animation. I could not understand why others did not feel this way until I was put into classes with like-minded geeks.

[Kyle Noe]

08:29 PM on 03/29/2012

I knew I was a science geek when on the last day of 6th grade, my school was throwing out all the old textbooks (which were still in good shape), and I took as many as I could carry (from physics to chemistry to biology), then practically running to the bus and fearing I'd miss it but thinking "whatever, this is worth it." I had no way of getting home if I had missed the bus, but I was content to have that stack of science books in my arms.

[Debbie338]

02:02 PM on 03/28/2012

I knew the first time I read a Superman comic and I wondered how he could catch someone while he was flying and they were falling, without breaking all their bones from the impact.

[WilliamPilgrim]

06:45 AM on 03/23/2012

Real easy
"How and Why Wonder Books"
These were a series of magazines that were published in the early to late 60s covering every science topic available, chemistry, archeology, physics, biology, space, dinosaurs, metallurgy, paleontology, Every couple of week my Dad would bring a new one home from grocery shopping. They were like crack to our little brains. I haven't seen one in many years and then just recently my doctors office had one in the waiting room, It was like meeting an old friend on the street, a magic moment.

[BCubedReg]

05:27 AM on 03/23/2012

The moment I knew I was a science geek was at age nine I looked up at a the night sky, pointed to a star and asked my mom.. who lives there?

My mother worked at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland at the time.

[NikkiDove]

08:22 PM on 03/21/2012

I was science geek, bred from birth, as a family we went to museums, the Adlar Planetarium and Shedd Aquarium, and the Zoo instead of a Church, nearly every Sunday. As a kid my favorite books were the Magic School Bus and as I got older any books on Volcanoes and earthquakes I could find. My geekeness was solidified in the 4th grade when I won my school's National Geographic Bee. My opponent for the last question was in the 8th grade. I am a child of the internet generation; I have an affinity for computers that has led me to my current career. I have read the Origin Of the Species and nearly all of Richard Dawkins' books. HAIL SAGAN!

[Kermit Blackwood]

01:51 PM on 03/21/2012

I read William Beebe's Monograph of the Phasianidae -all four volumes - I was ten or eleven at the time. It's never occurred to me since that I could be anything but a naturalist at my core.

[cmann63]

10:32 AM on 03/21/2012

I knew I was a science geek when I changed my bed to my couch. I did this so I could study biology up to the point where I feel asleep and then could start again as soon as I woke up. I also knew I was doomed when I never did a thing with the four-year business degree I earned. I never used it in a business job, ever. I did however, use my biology Deere. Once I went back to school, I was in college for almost 10 years. I got my Bachelors , masters and finally PhD by age 35. I have never once regretted the decision and now have great joy in seeing my budding science Greek boys!

[hamp70]

01:53 PM on 03/20/2012

Take two atomic clocks, set their time the same. Enclose one in lead and set them side by side. Remove the lead casing at the end of a year and I have a strong feeling that the one that was in lead will be ahead of the other one. If it was it could mean that we are traveling through a sea of energy. The influence of this energy on the clock that was not encased was more than the lead encased clock. If there is a sea of energy influence on matter, it just might be why time slows down with speed. Does this qualify me as a science geek? Oh, and you head it from me first encase it is found out later that I am right.