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Mars & The Teachable Moment
Gallenod writes "In this article at space.com, Edna DeVore, Director of Education and Public Outreach for SETI, states that people are being continually exposed to pseudo-science from watching television and reading tabloids. Her examples include the "face" on Mars (which she discusses in detail in the article), alien autopsies, Area 51 in the Nevada desert as alien storage quarters, the "non-landings" on the Moon, UFO's, and alien kidnappings. DeVore describes the current Mars missions as a "teachable moment," an opportunity to teach factual science and astronomy in the context of sensationalistic psuedo-science and the legion of money-grubbing opportunists who make their living churning it out."
We regular readers of /. are continually being exposed to pseudo-intelligence and it does us no harm. Now wheres my teddy bear, I want him to explain this 2 + 2 thing to me again
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
fark mars rover photoshop contest
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I don't need your "teachings" you alien brainwashers! I'm still wearing my tin-foil hat!
Or is it that she is just another cog in the vast conspiracy machine trying to detract people from what is really going on? I mean, it would seem so simple for the Illuminati to put an "actual scientist" in a place to debunk the "myths" that about. Come on, we know what is really going on! Stop covering things up! Maybe they should reveal the truth behind the s786fh&^23b!@}{!n7afy23jsdf.... NO CARRIER
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--Chag
We can't? -Avi
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
What does the "Face Detector" have to say about that thing on Mars?
but I found a Battle Axe, then a Rocket Luancher and a Shotgun, and I blew all those Creatures back to their motherplanet... or maybe that was a game I played.
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
*THEY* are trying to convince us to take the tinfoil hats off so they can begin the reprogramming! Don't do it!!!!
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Since the RIAA's so good at tracking down people,why don't we adopt their tactics and start tracking the IP's of people who read and support this crap. We could sneak into their homes at night and sew big scarlet D's onto all their clothes and erect yard signs that say "WARNING! DUMBASS INSIDE!" People who pass "the truth about the face on Mars" to other dullards around the water cooler could be forced to spend a day in the stocks in the public square, where they could be pelted with fruits, vegetables, and PDA's that were browsing badastronomy.com. And if we could actually nab some of the people who *produce* all this junk science, we could hand them over to a pay-per-view assraping at the hands (and schlong) of Kobe Bryant.
This is the best one
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
...we just need to apply the face detector to that hunk of rock on Mars and see what IT has to say about it!
freaks will get more time on TV (Check Jerry springer) and most people believe TV, so if you put idiots infront of a TV which says "ET will beam you up" they will start packing their bags ready to go.
If you tell them it's just a very rocky place with no aliens, maybe some very very minor life forms and a former ocean. They go "pfft, it's like a desert, I perfered the green men on NBC and Fox"
It's the modern world.
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But it's not what people think. NASA did actually get to the moon; the problem was that it was deemed too controversial to allow footage of what was actually found there to be released to the public. Thus, faked landing footage was created.
Silly rabbit.
I was yawning my way through your comment, eyes half closed, until I spotted that line about Page 3 girls... and I was all like whoa, excellent idea!
Lets start a petition to have Playboy feature a "NASA's sexiest" spread.
all that pseudo science. In years past when I'd fall asleep to Art Bell and watch too much X-Files, those things seemed plausable to me. After ridding myself of those inputs, the fake science and the paranoia revolving around it have vanished. Not letting a radio show fill my subconscious sleeping mind every night was probably the number one way to de-program that garbage from myself.
*TheDarb
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...sensationalistic psuedo-science and the legion of money-grubbing opportunists...
Well, as long as we are being fair and balanced about it.
People who disagree with you are not automatically evil, greedy, or stupid.
Yes, but they will cower in fear when VGER returns!
Because everyone knows that a fantastically advanced species capable of destroying whole cities uses Mac OS 8. Duh.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
That's why way before we start launching humans to Mars or bring back man to the moon, we need to build and launch those big giant air making things like in the second or third Alien movie.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Just a REALLY blurry one.
Not that I believe it's anything but a coincidence, I'm just saying it still bears resemblance to a face...
Don't get your news from Stargate. That show is NOT realistic.
For example, there was one episode where they had an ion gun, but they needed many more. That is such a riduculous premise.
I mean, they have MacGyver. He can whip up ion guns using banana peels & rubber bands, for crying out loud!
"What science needs is more Page 3 girls."
And I will lift my drink for a toast to that!
The closest thing to that here in the US are the ladies of TechTV. Damn Comcast, damn the Roberts family to hell for *pink slipping* the channel.
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
"Call Navstar! We need PICTURES!"
Well, um, call them if you want. They'll send you to the Ikonos people. GPS satellites don't have cameras. (Navstar is the real/original name for GPS, but it's fallen out of use.)
i am a soviet space shuttle
Yeah. I can't believe I spent all that money on my "Face on Mars" mug and Alien Autopsy Med-Kit.
...he could type "What is the meaning of life?" directly at the DOS prompt. Remember: all shells support natural-language parsing. It's enough to make one wonder why Infocom went out of business.
Ok, let me get this straight...there's this guy flying through a city. He's obviously travelling faster than the speed of sound as there are shockwaves behind him. He's NOT in a plane, just flying because he can... ...and you're worried about the believability of the physics that occur when he catches his girlfriend just jumped out of a skyscraper?
I think your SoDD (Suspension of Disbelief Device) is suffering from a major malfunction. Works part of the time; totally shuts down at odd moments. You might want to have that checked.
If it keeps up you might start believeing in redistribution of wealth, kynesian economics, and that the government is not out to get you.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
Mine: (not science but still ...)
The national debt doesn't matter because we owe it to ourselves.
what like these guys. or these guys. or these guys.
"You can get by password security by simply typing "OVERRIDE SECURITY"
HEY!! Who told you my password?!?!
Mr. Heywood U. Rootmybox
Head of Security
Microsoft Corp.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
Then where's my free cheese?
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What would Bill Clinton do?
Hey, I've got one of those in my home too! Although mine's called a 'laser printer'.
You must think in Russian.