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Science a Mystery to U.S. Citizens
maddugan writes "CNN and probably others are posting their synopses of the National Science Foundation's biennial report on the state of science understanding in the US. Sixty percent of those surveyed believe in ESP, psychic power, and alien abduction."
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
God, don't scientists ever learn?
-Linux was for the masses, who spoke, and everything was crystal clear.
Seriously? How many of them are aware that the show Star Trek: Voyager is one of the most glorious pieces of fucking shitto ever grace the small screen?
What? Don't like borg and time travel episodes? Too bad! you get a dyke captain and a drunk indian first officer with a gambling problem. All in the name of providing the retard audience its daily dose of pseudo-intellectual moralizing, with a sprinkling of cliches and technobabble. who needs Dr. Phil on Oprah, when we can just watch an episode of Voyager to find out the solutions to our moral dilemmas?
You'll soon find out that the answer to all humanity's woes is as simple as restabilizing the dynotherm couplings and initializing the reverse-chrono-equalizer.
i have esp, so i knew that this article was going to be posted three days ago.
More than 60% of Americans believe in this "God" person, and they believe he created us. Isn't that enough evidence that people don't understand science? :)
Only 50% of people surveyed knew that the Earth revolves around the Sun once a year. I am absolutley gob smacked. Is this really a cross section of American society!?
What do Americans teach their kids at school, if not that the Earth goes around the Sun once a year?
i just called and asked Miss Cleo if U.S Citizens are gaining a better knowledge of science.
And she told me that "not even tha cards can answer that one", but she did tell me that i would be rich very soon!
> The idea that stars and planets being in certain
> alignments controls one's destiny flies in the
> face of common sense and reason!
Such anger in you. What are you, a Taurus?
:-)
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
You know, I spent much of this evening wondering to myself if its just me, or has everyone around me more or less just become more stupid as the years have gone on...After overhearing this conversation at a local PetsMart:
Dumb Lady: Oh my God! Oh my god, this fish is dying!
Clerk: Hm? The goldfish?
Dumb Lady: Whats wrong with your fish?
Clerk: Oh..That one. They're supposed to look like that.
Dumb Lady: With...with its head like that?
Clerk: Yeah.
Dumb Lady: What about those eyes? Thats not supposed to be like that..
Clerk: Yeah. Those goldfish are supposed...supposed to be like that. They're....genetically...not supposed to be like that, originally.
Dumb Lady: Huh?
Clerk: Thats the way they make em. Genetically...altered.
Dumb Lady: ARE YOU SERIOUS?!!?? (gasp)
Clerk: Yeah.
Dumb Lady: These fish are GENETICALLY ALTERED?????
Clerk: Well..they're not.....they're..just come like that.
Dumb Lady: Oh my god. Radiation. Oh..my god..thats...I guess that means they wont live very long. Like the sheep.
Clerk: Well, no, its just they're not as hearty as...the other goldfish.
Dumb Lady: I see.. wow. Look honey, they can do that now..to fish!
The "fish" the 40-something mother-of-two woman was referring to was one of those big googly-eyed goldfish that you can see in any pet store..Just normal goldfish that are bred to be decorative fishes. I would have said something, but it was already obvious this woman had absolutely no concept of something as simplistic as breeding animals... That,and I felt bad for the clerk who had to endure this woman's sub-roomtemp IQ. I just walked off and felt sorry for civilization.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
Here at the MPAA we believe that science, while somewhat useful, has simply got to go if we are to protect our property in the digital age. Literacy is bad enough, driving criminals to "public libraries" where they can read books as often as they want without paying anyone; teach these ethically challenged consumers how to program computers and crack codes, and we have a real crisis on our hands. Not to mention the fact that an educated, discerning public requires us to spend considerably more money and effort producing quality entertainment. We can't figure out exactly who's at fault there, but clearly some kind of theft is taking place.
A literate, educated public may be necessary for a democracy, but it is represents a severe threat to the entertainment industry. In this time of national crisis, we all need to chip in, for instance by spending 8 dollars or so to see a total piece of crap like "The Scorpion King." An "educated" person would probably stay at home reading Paradise Lost, without spending a dime to reimburse copyright holders. It's a shame that our government not only permits such acts, but tacitly encourages them by failing to enforce real, effective copyright controls (which, by the way, "science" claims to be impossible.)
Proponents of "scientific literacy" should ask themselves how they would feel if someone stole their wallets and then murdered them.
ukyoCE wrote:
You get a lot of crazy shit coming out of the basic rules of "eat shit eat sleep eat shit eat sleep".
since when is "eat shit" a basic rule?
China, no question.
Repressive countries have much better weather. Drop me on Hainan or Hong Kong and I'm all set. All the politically perfect places (Denmark, Netherlands, etc.) are cold and drizzly. Some justice that is.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
Errrr... Explain that to the cat.