At the moment I'm studying at the University of Göttingen.
I am there "undercover" (means: "sacked in") and listening carefully. I'll be a tech savy eagle, when I will be back, I'm sure! And maybe, I 'll have got an Eagle BA degree.
First we had a look at the campus.
These are some of the new buildings.
They have a very old building in the middle of the city as well.
The University of Göttingen is rather old and very famous. Surely you know some of their professors.
You don't??
Do you know Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm?
You don't??
Ah - but you know Little Red Riding Hood.
And you know Cinderella.
And you know Sleeping Beauty.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected all these fairy tales and many, many more from narraters, wrote them down and let them print for the very first time when they worked here in Göttingen, so that everyone could read them and tell them to all children - and especially you.
On one of the new buildings there is a big ball.
"Giants playing basket ball again?", I asked Mrs. Schicke.
"No", she answered. "Looks more like playing golf, this time."
But it is not a giant golf ball, but a real observatory with a big telescope inside.
Then we made a walk, because we had some time left, before our lectures at the university started.
Guess where I am sitting on!
Might be.
But no! Not exactly.
This is petrified wood of some giant sequoias - up to 40 m high and about 35 000 000 years old.
Now it is stone, which still looks like wood, but it IS stone.
We found it in "Geopark" at the university, a geological open air museum.
I never had thought, that stones could be interesting such a lot.
But they had stones coming from vulcanoes and stones, which were catapulted 20 km high, when an asteroid fell on earth during the time of the dinosaurs and pretty marble stones and big stones, which were moved to Germany by ice streams during ice age ....
Stones are SO interesting!
But at last we had to go to the lecture.
There we had a lot of fun, because Mrs. Schicke learned how to write a computer program to control a small lego vehicle.
Can you imagine a whole class of grown ups playing with lego bricks??
Crazy university!!
Hi Eduardo,One of the logs looks like a dinosaur
AntwortenLöschenskull.It is so cool!
Hi Eduardo,
AntwortenLöschenWe think it is cool that those logs turned into rocks. Where are you in that post?
On picture nr. 4 I am sitting in the middle of the rock in the background. The logs are really big and so a appear as a little brown spot. But if you look carefully, you can see my yellow beak.
LöschenWow, those are really old stones and are those really the metor that killed the dinosurs? from Alex and Paige.
AntwortenLöschenHi Alex and Paige,
AntwortenLöschenthese are of course not exactly the stones, which killed all of the dinosaurs.
But during the times of the dinosaurs, there fell several meteors on the earth. The stones, you see at Geopark, were laying, where one of the meteors came down. So they were catapulted high in the air and the pressure and heat of the meteor deformed and even melted the stones and the sand so that a new kind of stones was formed.
Here you can see, how the asteroid possibly came down: http://www.geopark-ries.de/index.php/en/the_origin_of_the_noerdlinger_ries
And as you see the wide crater, you can imagine, that most likely some dinosaurs had to die when looking for food in that area at that moment, but surely not ALL dinosaurs on earth.