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Supernova 1987A Decoded
bluevector writes "Electric Universe News is reporting that scientists claim to have proof that 'supernovae are catastrophic electrical discharges focused on a star' and not the result of giant stars undergoing gravitational collapse and subsequent explosion after having spent all of their nuclear fuel as previously thought."
Who put metal in the microwave?
Electric Universe is a well-known crackpot site, built on the most absurd pseudoscience. They're the same outfit that predicted a large explosion when Deep Impact hit Tempel 1.
/. editors display their utter inability to distinguish between science and pseudoscience. Idiots.
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Actually, you would appear to be the troll here. I read a bit of their material, and although I can't get onto their site to check right now, I believe most of their predictions about Deep Impact were correct.
Pseudoscience, my friend, is a word used by those who feel that their "scientific facts" are threatened. I'm sure those who dared say that the earth was round hundred of years ago were marked as practicing "absurd pseudoscience". I don't know if these electric universe guys are right or wrong, but it seems VERY scientific to me to come up with new theories about how things work...especially something like how our universe functions. It's very UNSCIENTIFIC to brush of a theory by labeling it "crackpot", rather than testing to see if it's valid.
Idiot.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
Did you ever notice how science changes its anwsers so damn often. But the Bible stays the same.
When I went to college, they taught some stuff in biology, chemsitry, and physics that is wrong. They graded our papers, and gave us low marks. Why? They did it to everyone. In my Chem class, and "A" was a 38.7%. That is about 4 out of 10 points on a test. The curve was fucking rediculous.
God said they would persecute us. And they are doing that.
I would rather take comfort with God than with the here_today, gone_tomorrow of science.
Why not live in a happy moral time, with good families, and worthwhile occupations. Why live in horrible times, working for in the factory of an atheist for minimum wage?
THINK ABOUT IT. WHAT IS DIFFERENT TODAY? NO PENSIONS AT JOBS. NO GOOD JOBS. And there is less of God too. He is letting us know.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
It's alright. The article is just one of a number of crackpot pseudoscientific wild-ass-guesses on that site.
What site? There's no link. Oh wait, I get it. You mean slashdot.
If you seriously talk to creationists, treating them as scientist, you acknowledge them. You recognize them as rational opponents. You give them visibility and let the public opinion feel they're just different scientists, not f*****g crackpots.
The world of science should and does reply to creationist pseudoscience with science facts. It should do it visibly and clearly, and it does it. But never forget they're harmful, idiot crackpots, not rational scientific opponents.
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(BTW: welcome to /. , where expressing your own POV automagically becomes trolling in the eyes of moderators!)
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Actually... that's part of it's appeal. No matter how strong their resolve, they will always fail since reality does not support them. At that point it's immensely entertaining to watch people struggle so vigorously to assert their positions while you throw out the occassional comment that takes little effort by comparison. Oh wait... that's called TROLLING! (Happy Troll Tuseday! ;P )
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Oh I don't know. Maybe they could blog about how happy they are that god sent a hurricane to cleanse N.O. of wickedness and tell us to pray for more dead bodies.