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Ancient Planes and Other Claims Spark Controversy at Indian Science Congress
An anonymous reader writes A paper presented at the 102nd Indian Science Congress on Sunday claims that Indians had mastered aviation thousands of years before the Wright brothers. India's science and technology minister Mr. Harsh Vardhan who was present at the conference claimed that ancient Indian mathematicians discovered the Pythagorean theorem but that the Greeks got the credit. These startling claims come just a few days after prime minister Narendra Modi had called Lord Ganesha who is part elephant and part human, a product of ancient India's knowledge of plastic surgery.
Of making dense posts in the Internet and in technical forums. I have left too many technical forums because there is no patience for the multitude of posts "I don't know how to this simple task, poor of me, do my job for me"
+1 funny.
For those who didn't understand, oblig. reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Half the population doesn't understand Evolution; and, might have some doubts it is fully correct. However, the number that "don't believe" is actually much smaller. The problem is that we tend to bias our polling over such topics quite badly; because, the polling is typically done by religious institutions. This leads to questions like "Considering that Scientists can't figure out whether carrots give you cancer or not, do you trust them to know that evolution is 100% right? Do you believe that a monkey can eventually give birth to a person? Any reasonable answer to such questions is then recast into a dis-belief in evolution.
There are plenty of you right wing idiots here joining right up with the left wing idiots.
No wonder America is in such horrible shape.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
We don't require children to recite the pledge of allegiance, belief in angels is not part of our system of government, and the motto on our currency is "In God We Trust", not "God is on Our Side".
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
We're not hearing it from our head of state right now, but our previous head of state was a fundamentalist evangelical who was perfectly happy to ignore climate change, endorse intelligent design, and generally ignore any science that gave him answers he didn't want to hear. Of course that was in no way limited to science questions. He was also more than happy to ignore reports from the intelligence community that he didn't want to hear and fabricate evidence to support policies like invading Iraq.
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
I was wondering when NC would stop promoting cowardice on its license plates.
My favorite part about working with a Russian scientist: In the original Star Trek series, Chekhov often makes comments claiming specific discoveries or cultural artifacts as Russian - "discovered by famous Russian astronomer" or "old Russian fairy tale: if shoe fits, wear it". It's sort of a running joke, I assume related to the fact that 20th century Russian science tended to be totally cut off from the rest of the world. The really funny thing: THEY ACTUALLY DO THIS. And not just about historical discoveries either. I left a perfectly good job in large part because of this kind of crap.