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Science thread - anything interesting?

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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2008 edited
    Timmer wrote
    Steven wrote
    The ignorance of some people will never cease to amaze me!

    biggrin

    And if you want a real good laugh, have a look at this Flat Earth Society website!

    I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry? biggrin / cry


    Yeah, looked at that before, sometimes boggling, sometimes funny, mostly sad!


    I must admit, I'm a little skeptical about that Flat-Earthers website. Seems like it could easily be a hoax created to attract the gullible. Hence:

    "Using whatever means are deemed necessary and relying heavily on a callous disregard for the lives and well-being of our members, we have slowly but steadily been spreading the news."

    dizzy biggrin

    Hoax or not (it likely is), it's quite an entertaining read.
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2008 edited
    The Flat Earth Society is not in any way responsible for the failure of the French to repel the Germans at the Maginot Line during WWII. Nor is the Flat Earth Society responsible for the recent yeti sightings outside the Vatican, or for the unfortunate enslavement of the Nabisco Inc. factory employees by a rogue hamster insurrectionist group. Furthermore, we are not responsible for the loss of one or more of the following, which may possibly occur as the result of exposing one's self to the dogmatic and dangerously subversive statements made within: life, limb, vision, Francois Mitterand, hearing, taste, smell, touch, thumb, Aunt Mildred, citizenship, spleen, bedrock, cloves, I Love Lucy reruns, toaster, pine derby racer, toy duck, antelope, horseradish, prosthetic ankle, double-cheeseburger, tin foil, limestone, watermelon-scented air freshner, sanity, paprika, German to Pig Latin dictionary, dish towel, pet Chihuahua, pogo stick, Golf Digest subscription, floor tile, upper torso or halibut.


    Yep, that's satire alright.

    It's a fun parody of denialism (911-truthers, evolution denial, Holocaust denial, Moon landing hoaxers etc.), though I have seen better parodies in the past, where one really doubted whether they were being serious or not.

    Peter smile
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2008
    biggrin

    Excellent, I had not read that bit yet. Much in the same vain as the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Unite all ye Pastafarians!

    I wonder if it has any genuine members?
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2008
    Timmer wrote
    Steven, check out THE GENIUS OF CHARLES DARWIN at 8.00 pm tonight on Channel 4 presented by reknowned atheist Professor Richard Dawkins, looks likeit could be a fascinating program!?


    It's online now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MgpCDMukz0

    Peter smile
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
    Well worth checking out that, both to those well versed in evolution and those not so privy to evolutionary facts.

    Also, we have a Flat-Earther in our midst! shocked biggrin *cough* Bregt
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
    I think I know everything that was mentioned in the program, though I found the beach fossil hunt amazing. I'm considering going fossil hunting myself, I really didn't know it was that easy. The ammonites were extinct 65 million years ago, and that kid found one lying around on the beach!

    I do enjoy Dawkins, he's a talented science popularizer and a great scientist. But I think his way of communicating turns many religious people of, as he tends to set up a false dichotomy between science and religion. I think his real target is the evolution doubters, but he ends up alienating them with his anti-religious agenda, and I think that's a real shame.

    Peter smile
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2008 edited
    It's a good program for those doubters out there with a religious tendency, as it shows the those who reject evolution have simply not bothered to understand it.

    But I partly agree, I was kind of hoping for less of a focus on religious attitudes towards evolution and more of a focus on purely explaining evolution with visual means. (Much like Dr. Iain Stewart's series Earth: The Power Of The Planet where he stays away from socialistic impacts of science and purely focuses on explaining the science in a clear, visual manner.) But I enjoy it anyway, and it does make for an interesting program nonetheless. I've read his excellent "The Selfish Gene", which was my first proper introduction to evolution, so it was all familiar to me too. (Learning evolution at school only really scratches the surface of such a vast subject, at least something like The Selfish Gene is a good introduction in setting up the more detailed aspects of evolution.)

    Still, say what many will about Dawkins' approach, all that aside he's still a lovely, kind and very moralistic human being, and like I said in the religion thread, the world would greatly benefit if everyone shared the same qualities.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
    total sun eclipse from inside a plane. awesome spectacle

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=04a_1217608584
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
    Aaamericans.... rolleyes
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
    Christodoulides wrote
    total sun eclipse from inside a plane. awesome spectacle

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=04a_1217608584


    That is pretty damn cool.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008 edited
    Steven wrote
    Aaamericans.... rolleyes


    Yeah, the commentary is pretty irritating, standard american reaction to everything but thank God not all of them are like that.....just 70% biggrin Also thank God for the mute button!
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
    HOLY SMOKES GUYS! GREAT VIDEO.
    YEAH! EXCELLENT.

    WOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
    Kazoo
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
    Christodoulides wrote
    Steven wrote
    Aaamericans.... rolleyes


    Yeah, the commentary is pretty irritating, standard american reaction to everything but thank God not all of them are like that.....just 70% biggrin Also thank God for the mute button!


    I don't remember hearing it, but I guarantee the word "awesome" is used in that video. dizzy wink
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      CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
    Christodoulides wrote
    Steven wrote
    Aaamericans.... rolleyes


    Yeah, the commentary is pretty irritating, standard american reaction to everything but thank God not all of them are like that.....just 70% biggrin Also thank God for the mute button!


    Closer to 85%. biggrin

    Great video by the way. Would love to have experienced that up there.

    Bregt wrote
    HOLY SMOKES GUYS! GREAT VIDEO.
    YEAH! EXCELLENT.

    WOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW.


    biggrin
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e77_1218936872 shocked
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
    Christodoulides wrote
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e77_1218936872 shocked


    One ugly mudder fucker vomit
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
    Timmer wrote
    Christodoulides wrote
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e77_1218936872 shocked


    One ugly mudder fucker vomit


    It looks like it should be able to pick up radar with that "nose". spin beer
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 20th 2008
    International Space Station cameras capture tropical storm Fay

    220 miles above Earth International Space Station cameras capture tropical storm Fay.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=55e_1219178632
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 20th 2008
    Cosmic cool
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorDemonStar
    • CommentTimeAug 20th 2008
    Christodoulides wrote
    International Space Station cameras capture tropical storm Fay

    220 miles above Earth International Space Station cameras capture tropical storm Fay.

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=55e_1219178632


    Kewl! Thanks!! biggrin
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2008
    A pretty impressive video for tornado (not the plane wink ) lovers

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0f6_1219266153
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2008 edited
    Christodoulides wrote
    A pretty impressive video for tornado (not the plane wink ) lovers

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0f6_1219266153


    I wanna see one for real!!!

    Proof for the fluidity of our atmosphere. cool
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      CommentAuthorDemonStar
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2008
    Steven wrote
    I wanna see one for real!!!


    I wanna, too!

    But not from too close! cheesy
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2008
    Yeah, thank God for cameras we can observe those events ourselves but those people are crazy, i would never go near such a thing! shocked Although i know Timmer would wink But i am not sure about the Mark Mancina score part ehe
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2008
    Count me in too! I'd love to go along with these storm chasers one day. When it was really stormy once, with thunder crashing all around, I was driving the old Hilux truck we used to have... and I decided to put on Mancina's score. Feck me it was awesome! biggrin
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2008
    Steven wrote
    Count me in too! I'd love to go along with these storm chasers one day. When it was really stormy once, with thunder crashing all around, I was driving the old Hilux truck we used to have... and I decided to put on Mancina's score. Feck me it was awesome! biggrin


    biggrin Stormchasing would be one helluva buzz punk
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorBregje
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2008
    Thanks for both the videos, D! spin
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2008
    Moon close-up with large telescope

    Very impressive footage!

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=559_1219311949
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2008
    High Def Atomic Bomb Blast

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=56a_1219870572 shocked
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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