Besides, it’s been then tried already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

Actually, it’s a stately home.

Something like that happened to me at a similar age (won’t go into details) and I never got over my dislike of going into pools and the ocean and learning to swim (which I never have).

A propos: John Baez’s https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html (How to Learn Math and Physics)

Well you have to admit, finding a non-white object that is not a swan really does strengthen the claim that all swans are white.

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER-THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”