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13 Things That Do Not Make Sense
thpr writes "New Scientist is reporting on 13 things which do not make sense. It's an interesting article about 13 areas in which observations do not line up with current theory. From the placebo effect to dark matter, it's a list of areas in need of additional research. Explanations could lead to significant breakthroughs... or at least new and different errors in scientific observations. Now there are 20 interesting problems for Slashdotters to work on, once you combine these with the seven Millennium Problems!"
Does it include Slashdot first posters who do not RTFA?*
*I'm gonna go read it now...
I'm a virgo and on Slashdot. Coincidence? Yes.
Bush 2nd Term
How 51+ million people could vote for Bush.
As an engineering student, I understand that there are quite a number of theories that baffle science today - superconductors, as noted in the article, was not explainable until the advancement of scientific tools to measure them.
As a human being, however, I find that there are even more inexplicable things - things that make absolutely no sense in this world. I caution to note that I admit that I have little knowledge on the overall affairs and the advancements to correct these, but:
#14: In a world where millions die of diabetes per year, there is a comparable sum of people who die of starvation.
...#15...#16... ... The list goes on and on. The AIDs epidemic in underdeveloped countries. The continual sale of slaves. The horrifying acceptance that my kid brother can watch local news cover a brutal homocide with scenes of blood and the coverage of shootings without twitching, completely disaffected by it.
Scientific questions have their place in this world (answering them is how we as a species have advanced technologically) - I just thought we might want to remind ourselves of the baffling questions that many of us don't wish to know or answer.
I've got a few more for you to think about when you get some time.
The thing about evolution that makes no sense is how people can come up with all kinds of reasons why it's not true. What it is about evolution that brings the wackos out of the closet? That's a mystery that will never be solved.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
"That would be a great example, except that methadone is addictive. The reason it is given to heroin addicts is that it doesn't get them high. It's unclear to me exactly why that is considered an improvement."
IIRC it was invented by the Nazis.
Need we say more?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
CIRCUMCISION. A pointless, destructive, and monstrously painful procedure. This is something to be expected from savage tribes of irrational beliefs, not from physicians in the world's richest country! More info, click the link in my sig.
Circumcision is child abuse.
the new UN ambassador who is pledged to destroying the UN
You mean like the old UN ambassador who pissed on the UN when it needed pissing on, Daniel Patrick Moynihan? I certainly hope so.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
"Fiasco?" Twenty-five million people establishing their first freely elected government in history is a "fiasco" now?
Where is the connection to that "mission statement"?
while (!asleep()) sheep++
Except intellegence for all over the world said thier was and it looks like they were correct. Most of the stuff was removed days before and while multi-nationalal troops where attempting to secure them.
Also don't forget the removal of 1.8 tons of enriched uranium.
Much like U.S. law in the Bush Administration.
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Does anyone remember hearing the French guy at the UN security council, Villepain, saying that that WMD evidence wasn't convincing? Remember how those dastardly French folks were saying that going to war was precipitate, and that Bush was "following the logic of war" rather than exhausting the inspections regime -- which turns out to have worked, gutting Saddam H's weapons programs?
Do you remember how Colin Powell had to go before the security council and give a big presentation about all the rock solid evidence we said we had -- to convince the world? Sound familiar? Do you maybe recall how he later had to recant that testimony and apologize to the world for it? Is any of this ringing a bell? If intelligence "for all over the world" (yeesh) said this, why were Bush and company finding it necessary to go to those measures?
Fox News is not the only source of information about world opinion. You might want to look into a few other propaganda spigots, at the very least.
Most of the stuff was removed days before and while multi-nationalal (sic) troops where attempting to secure them.
This is my very favorite argument made by dipshits (excuse me) who try to cling to those pre-war arguments. Gee, um, if the war resulted in huge stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction disappearing from where we supposedly knew they were, and if they're now in Syria or within Iraq's borders in a situation where insurgents are basically able to move at will within a "weak state" -- then doesn't that mean the entire war was a colossal failure at accomplishing its professed goals??? Because I don't remember Bush and his loyalist cadre of junta leaders saying they wanted to scatter the WMDs to the terrorist winds... Do you?
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.