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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 month ago (20 children)

"No parenting class would have ever prepared me for having my kid ask me why we don't need artificial oxygen storage."

No, but a grade school science class would have...

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Yeah this is mindboggling. It wouldn't have ever crossed her mind to tell her kid that they don't need oxygen canisters on this planet? I mean, what the dad said is good, as it opened the door to some more learning... but wow.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

You completely missed the point.

This was about the elegance of the answer, not the answer itself.

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