I'm gonna keep going, Reege.

April 14, 2005 11:04 AM

Who Wants to Be An Earth Space Scientist? Complete with three separate lifelines, the Maryland Space Grant Consortium gives you the chance to test your knowledge ala WWTBAM. Plus they do a lot of other cool things, too.
posted by grateful (6 comments total)

So far, nobody's answered all 15 questions correctly. Who's up to the task?
posted by grateful at 11:06 AM on April 14, 2005

It's amazingly hard. I crashed out on the ocean depth question, and I think their answer is wrong.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 11:12 AM on April 14, 2005

I think they've got more than 15 questions - I didn't see one about ocean depth. I got the one about photon mass wrong, because the question is poorly phrased (photons can have mass, but not always).
posted by Dipsomaniac at 11:29 AM on April 14, 2005

I got all 15 (using all the lifelines) on the second try, but it said I'd missed a question. No fair. Still nice though.
posted by fvw at 11:38 AM on April 14, 2005

I got all 15 right using the 3 lifelines. I am a pretty big geek though! I started reading about the earth sciences when I was 8, so that gives me 9 years experience!
posted by afrooz at 12:00 PM on April 14, 2005

I got them all right.

It's interesting though. They ask several questions that are iffy. From what I know, the period of terrestrial magnetic pole flipping is highly erratic, but they list the answer as "200,000" which is a) too certain, and b) off from the mean value I remember, which is 300,000. There seem to be several questions where the actual answer was an error band, but the "most correct" answer was not the middle of that band, which seems strange and arbitrary.

But it is fun.
posted by teece at 12:22 PM on April 14, 2005