President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters

Muondecay writes "President Obama will be featured in the December 8th MythBusters episode, 'Archimedes Solar Ray,' during which he will challenge Adam and Jamie to revisit an ancient and somewhat controversial myth: Did Greek scientist and polymath Archimedes set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun during the Siege of Syracuse? This is part of a White House effort to highlight the importance of science education."

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Incidentally

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is science education important in public schools?

The vast majority of students will not be scientists, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.

If science were *really* so important, we wouldn't be beefing up science education in public schools, we would be allocating more grant money for the research, thus creating natural economic incentives for people to get degrees for this stuff. It would all be downhill from there.

Some sort of practical science education, which teaches you to avoid things like dropping the hair dryer into the tub, putting metal in the microwave, hydroplaning your car, etc. would be useful in public schools.

Of course, Obama probably knows all this. He's just posturing to be re-elected, because people love anything that ostensibly benefits the children (regardless of how well it will actually work or what it will actually cost).

Re:Science?

[Nukky Cisbu]

I watched a few early episodes of Mythbusters and really can't see what the appeal is. It's a show that fights junk science with junk science.

That said, I can definitely see why fans of the show would also be so partisan in their political beliefs: neither involve much rational thought.

Umm

[atisss]

Will they set Obama on fire? Or what's the point of him appearing?

Re:I am surprised it was him myth-busting his birt

[BobMcD]

This. In fact, it is likely only because Obama is black that this even offends anyone, as amazing as that is. Further if those who disagree would just ignore it, it would probably go away all on it's own. Or do you still hear people grousing about Barry Goldwater today? No?

Re:They've already busted that twice now

[syousef]

And she is unable to mention one magazine she reads. How they could be proud of such a moron I will never understand.

Wait! Hold the press! Sarah Palin can read????

Re:They've already busted that twice now

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Shit.

This whole thing is just to distract from the thing MythBusters won't investigate: Obama has no valid US birth certification!

Re:They've already busted that twice now

[TheJabberwocky]

No. Not reading magazines does not make you dumb. Pretending that you read magazines (or newspapers in SP's case) makes you dumb.

in reality

[turkeyfish]

Mythbusters need to investigate the myth that among all the teajhadists combined they have more functional brain-cells as our Honolulu born US president.

After all, the guy was smart enough to post the announcement of his own birth in the Honolulu newspaper so he could go on to become President of the United States. Teajhadists are simply jealous. Just like Jerry Brown who planted the illegal immigrant maid in Meg Whitman's house 10 years ago and convince the SSA to send her a letter notifying her of the fact 7 years ago so he could beat her in the 2010 election. Compared to teajhadists, democrats look like geniuses.

No wonder America's interest in science withers, the left side of its brain seems to be working but the right side seems to have died.