It's Official...I...Am A Nerd...

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There's a big fat difference between geeks and nerds. For starters Nerds tend to excel in academics, while geeks are passionate niche hobbyists. In short not all geeks are academic eggheads, though that can and has occured. It's just after learning this difference that I never considered myself a nerd in the past decade or so. Simply because my grades in school were average with a smattering of Cs and Bs with the occassional Ds and Fs. I was never the straight A or "A and B" student, mostly because the standard teaching method bored the crap out of me. I tended to do somewhat better in science, because scientific study and experimentations amuse me. But with the way math was taught, I gained a disinterest in the subject... That is unless you display math and science through art or animation... Last week I was watching an expisode of the anime "Naruto" where a fight between two ninja:The antagonst Deidara of a rogue ninja group called The Ataksuki," and Sasuke, who's an anti-hero seeking to kill his brother to avenge his clan," came to an end. When Sasuke was explaining how he was abl to beat Deidara, he said that Deidara's "Earth Style" techniques were vulnerable to his "Lightning techniques." Upon hearing this my knee-jerk reaction was:"Um, bull crap. In the world of Pokemon, electric type pokemon are weak against ground types because lightning only burns the ground it strikes, not destroys it." I tend to be critical of Naruto's flaws in terms of writing and the idea that Naruto's creator, Masashi Kishimoto might know less about elemental vulnerablities that Pokemon's creator Satoshi Tajara, who has Aspergers bugged me. But as a result I was overlooking a few factors. For starters Deidara's "earth style" techniques involve molding clay that he detonates with his energy, and lightning last I checked was incredibly hot. Thus I formed my hypothesis of "Earth elemental attacks being vulnerable to lightning attacks is possile if the earth was always mud or soft clay. As a result the heat of the lighning with either harden the clay or melt it, rendering the clay useless." So I set out to do my research to see how hot lightning and get, and how much heat was meeded to dry clay. As a reslt I learned lighning tends to be 53,540 degrees farhrenheit, and the heat needed to harden clay is 275 degrees or hotter. I understand it too that with lightning's temperature is enough to melt soft clay. So in conclusion, Deidara was screwed and Kishomoto might've done his due-diligence as a writer. But this study took about and hour or two to reach my conclusion, and it was all sparked from an issue I took with a statement made in a Japanese cartoon... In short... I'm a nerd...-_-