the students wrote in the paper’s abstract. “We also discovered that science is cool and fun because you get to do stuff that no one has ever done before.”
I am so tempted to add that to the abstract of my latest paper.
(Tragically I'm up to the 600-character limit anyway. Maybe I can delete the bit about the applications to extrasolar planets.)
Tangentially, this reminds me of some contest where you had to write "I smoke crack rocks" in a scientific paper that got published. Some redditor brilliantly worked that phrase into a legitimate sentence, I loved it.
Hah, thanks for that. However, this was significantly less impressive than what the reddit commenter did, who worked it in a chemical sentence to the effect of:
In our experiment, we used two chemicals, iodine (I) and carbon (C) to observe their effects when burning. In one particular instance, the fumes produced after burning I were highly corrosive (we observed I smoke crack rocks and other similarly hard substances).
I am so tempted to add that to the abstract of my latest paper.
(Tragically I'm up to the 600-character limit anyway. Maybe I can delete the bit about the applications to extrasolar planets.)