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Nathan's Grow Beasts

This is the story of Frank, the green one, and Ernest, the pink one.



Both of these two little beasts came into Nathan's life on the lovely day of Monday, June 18th from the great professor stork at Seattle University. Upon arriving at Nathan's home after class, both Frank and Ernest noticed a quite large dog residing in Nathan's home. Each felt both curious and terrified of this 80 pound yellow beast.



They really wanted to make friends with him though and each decided that the best thing they could do to befriend this furry thing was to grow bigger. Frank and Earnest were quite clever and they thought all night about how they could become large enough to play with their new housemate. After a long night of heavy thinking, Frank, the green one, came up with an idea. They would submerge themselves in liquid in order to grow bigger, realizing they were grow beasts after all and if they could grow like the packages said they could, up to 600% their size, well then they should be able to grow in no time to the size of the dog. It was settled, each would submerge themselves for a short period of time in a liquid. However, to see which way would allow them to grow the biggest, Ernest, the pink one, proposed he submerge himself in coconut water to compare with Frank who would submerge himself in water which way would allow them to grow the biggest. Both felt like this was a good idea and decided to begin their experiment at 9:00AM. Well an hour rolled by, 9:00AM was just about to happen and Frank and Ernest were ready for their experiment to begin. To monitor their progress they asked Nathan to measure their growth and take measurements every day at 9:00AMish and 9:00PMish. Also they requested that their experiment be controlled as much as possible and that each be placed in one cup of liquid, in the type of containers, in the same location. Each felt being placed by the windowsill would be best, it would give them lots of light to grow big by. Here is what they came up with for being submerged in.



They were both ready to begin their growing and so hopped into their respective liquids. Time went by and grow they did. Nathan charted their progress and here is a graph and a chart of their growth data of how they grew over a five day period.





As you can see, Frank grew much larger than Ernest did over the course of their five day growing period. He started at 1.69 inches and finished at 4.41 inches. Ernest started at a small 1.38 inches and only finished at a little bigger 2.26 inches. While they were growing in their jars, Frank and Earnest discussed why each was growing the way they were. Frank felt that he grew better because his water allowed a lot more light to get in to the jar than Ernest's murky coconut water allowed for.



In the end, neither came close to growing big enough to be the same size as their 80 pound dog roommate, but that did not stop them from still trying to play with him, they did grow a little bigger and that helped with their fears. At first it was a little scary for each of them introducing themselves to the dog.



However, it turned out this yellow fellow was quite nice after all and despite their differences, they found ways to be the best of friends in the end and they all lived happily ever after. The end.



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