Inside the Museum of Nonsense

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Inside the Museum of Nonsense

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @02:53AM from the one-man's-junk dept.

coondoggie writes "Some call it the museum of failed inventions and others might just call it the stupidity museum, either way it is officially known as the Museum of Nonsense and it opened in Austria this month. It is decidedly low-tech though it does contain some high-tech ideas like a truly interesting way to anonymize identity (a piece of black card on a stick so people can't see your eyes) and a device that promises to cut down on those huge cell-phone bills (think tin cans and a string)."

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Is this that creationist place I heard about? by vlm · 2012-01-31 02:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Is this that creationist place I heard about?

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1. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? by masternerdguy · 2012-01-31 03:07 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  I've actually been to that place. I wanted to laugh but probably would have been attacked. They made claims such as that radioactive decay didn't start occuring until modern times, and that light was getting slower. They had an exhibit of a prehistoric scene with a white girl feeding a dinosaur. They didn't even stick to the actual Bible stories. When a projector broke down everyone was singing amazing grace until it was fixed. An *interesting* experience.
  
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2. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? by ByOhTek · 2012-01-31 03:17 · Score: 2
  
  Oh, come on, didn't you listen to River Tam?
  
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3. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? by AngryDeuce · 2012-01-31 03:24 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  You want to read a hysterical article about that place, check this out.
  A guy basically pretended to be mentally handicapped and trolled the fuck out of everyone there, to include Ken Ham, the guy who created the place.
  Not a very politically correct article, but fucking awesome anyway...
4. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? by Sique · 2012-01-31 03:24 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  The austrian one is actually called The Nonseum.
  
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5. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? by SuricouRaven · 2012-01-31 03:53 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  The creationists thought of that long ago. Their answer, simplified for convenience, is roughly that *just enough* evolution happened to make it possible... and no more. Eg, the ark carried two 'cats' which then evolved-but-not-in-the-nasty-darwinist-way into wildcats, domestic cats, lions, tigers, lynxes and all the other cats big and small. They also claim that this isn't due to natural selection, but divine preemptive inclusion of the DNA for all modern cats into the ark proto-cat.
  
  If you really want to stump them, ask why the predatory species didn't immediatly render the prey species extinct. Their answer - and I am not making this up, really, this is the official Answers in Genesis position - is that the ark also carried a plant that grew meat, and the predators all ate that until the herbivores established a sustainable population. The plant is conveniently extinct without trace now, of course.
6. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? by Tablizer · 2012-01-31 04:12 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  When a projector broke down everyone was singing amazing grace until it was fixed.
  See, it works!
  
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7. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? by operagost · 2012-01-31 04:44 · Score: 2
  
  I doubt they claimed that radioactive decay didn't occur until "modern times", because that would do the opposite of supporting the "young earth" theory. It's known that carbon dating gets inaccurate at about 11,000 years ago, because environmental conditions affected the decay rate-- that may have been part of their arguments.
  
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8. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? by Tablizer · 2012-01-31 04:45 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Whenever there's a logical "stumper" to their story, they can just claim Wink Wink, Kabling! as the work-around and there's nothing you can say back.
  I wash JavaScript had such a work-around instead of "object is not an object" errors. Divide by Zero error? No problem: Wink Wink Kabling!
  
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9. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? by Samantha+Wright · 2012-01-31 05:04 · Score: 2
  
  That is the most staggeringly and phenomenally, mind-blowingly stupidest thing I have ever heard.
  But you have given me inspiration for a new joke.
  Q. Why haven't biologists evolved the ability to tell good jokes?
  A. The ecological niche was already filled.
  
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10. Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? by ThePeices · 2012-01-31 08:13 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Can I have two fucking cookies?
  1, it would be educational to study the reproductive cycle of cookies, and,
  2, I want an endless supply of little cookies.
Strange part of town. by Artea · 2012-01-31 03:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Right next door to the Ministry of Silly Walks
Wow by mr1911 · 2012-01-31 03:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Who knew the Museum of Nonsense was a real place. I expected this to be a story about Congress.

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Oblig. Quote by matt_gaia · 2012-01-31 03:18 · Score: 2

It's in Austria? Well, "G'day Mate!"