And later a reporter managed to get the number to the house in question and gave it a call.
Reporter: Hello, our scientists have been observing your house for a while now and it appears that the rooms are warmer than they should be for the number of people in them.
Man in House: How can your race have the technology to look at a house outside your solar system and still be too stupid to realize that there is a heater in the basement.
It would be nice to see the ideas rot before the scientists.
Yes it truly would, but that goes directly against human nature.
As individuals and as groups we tend to be blind to our own biases, and it gets worse the larger the group gets.
What exactly tells us that they are colliding? Is it that they are overlapping? The last I checked we didn't have the technology, or the multiple viewpoints, needed to determine exactly how far away the two galaxies are. In other words, we have no proof whatsoever that they are colliding at all, much less proof from it that dark matter exists.
A man who was born and raised in the city, never been in the woods, and never seen a jackalope goes jackalope hunting. He is certain that the jackalope exists because he has seen pictures of it on the internet. As he walks through the woods he sees a small pile of shit on top of the fallen leaves. Now that pile of shit is made up of small pieces that are almost shaped like balls, just a little oblong. The hunter thinks back to the picture of the jackalope an remembers that it looks a lot like a rabbit, and he has seen rabbit shit at the fair and it is about the same size, but less oblong. Well, of course the jackalope would have slightly different shit, it is a different animal after all, so he is certain that he is hot on the trail of the mighty jackalope.
As the hunter continued to follow the signs of his prey he did run into a group whitetail deer, none of which had any antlers, but he never did find his jackalope. When he finally gave up and returned to his home city he told his friend about his hunt for the great jackalope. His friend told him that there was no such thing as a jackalope, it was just photoshoped picture he found on the internet, and that the shit he found was from the group of whitetail doe's that he encountered. Upon hearing this the mighty hunter flew into a rage. He kicked his friend out of his house and has refused to talk to him ever since.
Or you know, you could admit that there is a massive flaw in your theory, since the galaxies that we can observe couldn't exist in it, and go back to examine the underpinnings of that theory instead of claiming that everything so far must be right and then slapping the handwavium undetectable matter into the theory.
And yet there are crackpots claiming the Sun is made out of iron instead of hydrogen
I would really love to see an explanation of how a star forms which leaves the center of it being hydrogen. Then how after that star miraculously forms out of just the light gases from the accretion disk that the planets are made almost entirely of the heavier elements. This idea seems rather odd to me. Are you saying that somehow gravity works differently during the formation of a star? It would have to in order for it to consist almost completely of hydrogen. If there is enough gravity in the system to pull in the lightest element how in the hell are the heavier elements escaping this only to be pulled together to make planets? And somehow in this theory the few heavy elements that managed to make it there are close to the surface while that extremely light hydrogen was pulled down to be the core.
Face the facts, we don't know a damn thing about stars and our standard models of them can be disproven with minor questioning.
And that is why they cling to dark matter and dark energy like a religious zealot clings to his belief in god. It is just human nature that when we feel our beliefs being challenged on such a large scale our minds subconsciously use every logical fallacy to convince ourselves that our original beliefs are right. When this effect is expanded to a large community who share the same beliefs those beliefs start to be protected by threats to careers and ostracization.
This makes real advancement extremely hard when there is an established model which is flawed. Any challenge to that flawed model is met with threats, ostracization, character assassination, and censorship. I think that this may well be where we are at now. We have a seriously flawed model which can't even explain the observations within our own solar system, particularly the sun, that we have been trying to force upon the universe while ignoring huge blatant flaws. All the while putting our fingers in our ears and covering our eyes to all the data which contradicts the theory. The sad part is that nothing will change until the current leaders in the field grow old and die.
The Electric Universe theory explains a very large portion of these observations along with some of the problems we have with the current model of the sun. It also makes far more sense and does not require any hand wavy dark matter. Yet the majority of astrophysicists refuse to even breath the name, much less test the theory. It wreaks of groupthink.
Agreed, there are some things that corporations cannot be trusted with, like health care. When there is a profit motive to keep people sick a corporation will do everything in its power to keep as many people as possible sick.
No, it's just the ones who believe there is a real difference between the democrats and republicans. Those of us who are smart enough to realize they are just different masks for the same ruling class are rather good at comprehending clearly written thoughts.
You know, I was certain this was a bad idea due to the fact that you need the bacteria in your mouth, but damn, I had no idea just how bad of an idea it was.
No, the problem is brushing and flossing far too much. They are both important, but over doing it is terrible for your teeth. Do you know who benefits when you do so? The dentists that recommend brushing your teeth too much and at the worst possible time. Who tell you that you need to floss your teeth every day no matter what.
When a profession profits greatly from your health being poor you shouldn't trust their advice to keep yourself healthy.
I suggest that your problem is that you are taking the advice of dentists without a second thought.
The dentist makes far more money if the average person has poor teeth, so what exactly is their motivation to give you good advice?
Let's go over just a couple of the things that dentists recommend for you:
You should brush your teeth right after each meal -- For at least half an hour after eating the enamel of your teeth is significantly weakened by the acids in the food. Brushing your teeth during this time erodes much more of the enamel than at any other time.
You should drink water fortified with fluoride -- Consuming large amounts of fluoride in your diet causes dental fluorosis. This effect is much higher when your teeth are developing. Dental fluorosis is absolutely terrible for your teeth making them fragile and far more prone to cavities.
You should use mouthwash that kills bacteria -- You have bacteria in your mouth for a reason. We evolved to have that bacteria which helps in the initial steps of digestion and protects your teeth from harmful bacteria. On a side note, studies have shown that using mouthwash which kills bacteria is directly associated with a higher risk of heart attack.
There are many more examples, but I do not have all day.
I will comment about things where and when I choose, and you have no say in the matter.
Oh, don't worry, we fully agree with your right to speak. Just as we have the same right to speak and tell you how blatantly bigoted your statements are, but you are the one who is abusing the system in an attempt to silence your critics. The last I checked nobody was doing that to you.
There is one situation where they should be treated differently. In any criminal case where the crime was committed while employed as a police officer the punishment should be automatically doubled with no judicial discretion allowed.
When you commit a crime while pretending to be fighting it as a police officer you are committing a much worse crime. Unless of course, the police want to give up all their extra protections under the law like laws about assault on a police officer, because that law is an additional weapon which they are using when they attack you. When a civilian attacks you then you have the right to defend yourself. When a police officer attacks you then you go to jail even if you didn't fight back.
No, they haven't forgotten who they work for, we have. They never worked for the good of the average citizen. Their job is, and always has been, to help maintain the separation between the rich and the poor, to include protecting the rich from the poor and never the other way around.
I agree with the rest, but 2 year degree in criminal justice? Detectives might have such. The people using these things are lucky high school works like a positive displacement pump or they would have never graduated from it. I guarantee that a large portion of them would have no chance of passing the GED test.
I'll second keeping the door open for the cat. I only watch youtube for the cats anyway... (almost not joking, the internet only exists for porn, cat pictures, and cat videos)
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Which would be devastating to the current theories of cosmology.
They do when they all use the same flawed method of measurement.
You must be. You are clinging to this theory with religious fervor even when a casual observer can see that it is full of shit.
Yes it truly would, but that goes directly against human nature.
As individuals and as groups we tend to be blind to our own biases, and it gets worse the larger the group gets.
What exactly tells us that they are colliding?
Is it that they are overlapping?
The last I checked we didn't have the technology, or the multiple viewpoints, needed to determine exactly how far away the two galaxies are. In other words, we have no proof whatsoever that they are colliding at all, much less proof from it that dark matter exists.
You forgot ignorant and closed-minded.
Here's a much better analogy for this situation.
A man who was born and raised in the city, never been in the woods, and never seen a jackalope goes jackalope hunting. He is certain that the jackalope exists because he has seen pictures of it on the internet. As he walks through the woods he sees a small pile of shit on top of the fallen leaves. Now that pile of shit is made up of small pieces that are almost shaped like balls, just a little oblong. The hunter thinks back to the picture of the jackalope an remembers that it looks a lot like a rabbit, and he has seen rabbit shit at the fair and it is about the same size, but less oblong. Well, of course the jackalope would have slightly different shit, it is a different animal after all, so he is certain that he is hot on the trail of the mighty jackalope.
As the hunter continued to follow the signs of his prey he did run into a group whitetail deer, none of which had any antlers, but he never did find his jackalope. When he finally gave up and returned to his home city he told his friend about his hunt for the great jackalope. His friend told him that there was no such thing as a jackalope, it was just photoshoped picture he found on the internet, and that the shit he found was from the group of whitetail doe's that he encountered. Upon hearing this the mighty hunter flew into a rage. He kicked his friend out of his house and has refused to talk to him ever since.
Yup, just religion quietly slipped into a scientific theory.
Or you know, you could admit that there is a massive flaw in your theory, since the galaxies that we can observe couldn't exist in it, and go back to examine the underpinnings of that theory instead of claiming that everything so far must be right and then slapping the handwavium undetectable matter into the theory.
I would really love to see an explanation of how a star forms which leaves the center of it being hydrogen. Then how after that star miraculously forms out of just the light gases from the accretion disk that the planets are made almost entirely of the heavier elements. This idea seems rather odd to me. Are you saying that somehow gravity works differently during the formation of a star? It would have to in order for it to consist almost completely of hydrogen. If there is enough gravity in the system to pull in the lightest element how in the hell are the heavier elements escaping this only to be pulled together to make planets? And somehow in this theory the few heavy elements that managed to make it there are close to the surface while that extremely light hydrogen was pulled down to be the core.
Face the facts, we don't know a damn thing about stars and our standard models of them can be disproven with minor questioning.
And that is why they cling to dark matter and dark energy like a religious zealot clings to his belief in god. It is just human nature that when we feel our beliefs being challenged on such a large scale our minds subconsciously use every logical fallacy to convince ourselves that our original beliefs are right. When this effect is expanded to a large community who share the same beliefs those beliefs start to be protected by threats to careers and ostracization.
This makes real advancement extremely hard when there is an established model which is flawed. Any challenge to that flawed model is met with threats, ostracization, character assassination, and censorship. I think that this may well be where we are at now. We have a seriously flawed model which can't even explain the observations within our own solar system, particularly the sun, that we have been trying to force upon the universe while ignoring huge blatant flaws. All the while putting our fingers in our ears and covering our eyes to all the data which contradicts the theory. The sad part is that nothing will change until the current leaders in the field grow old and die.
The Electric Universe theory explains a very large portion of these observations along with some of the problems we have with the current model of the sun. It also makes far more sense and does not require any hand wavy dark matter. Yet the majority of astrophysicists refuse to even breath the name, much less test the theory. It wreaks of groupthink.
Agreed, there are some things that corporations cannot be trusted with, like health care. When there is a profit motive to keep people sick a corporation will do everything in its power to keep as many people as possible sick.
No, it's just the ones who believe there is a real difference between the democrats and republicans. Those of us who are smart enough to realize they are just different masks for the same ruling class are rather good at comprehending clearly written thoughts.
You know, I was certain this was a bad idea due to the fact that you need the bacteria in your mouth, but damn, I had no idea just how bad of an idea it was.
No, the problem is brushing and flossing far too much. They are both important, but over doing it is terrible for your teeth. Do you know who benefits when you do so? The dentists that recommend brushing your teeth too much and at the worst possible time. Who tell you that you need to floss your teeth every day no matter what.
When a profession profits greatly from your health being poor you shouldn't trust their advice to keep yourself healthy.
I suggest that your problem is that you are taking the advice of dentists without a second thought.
The dentist makes far more money if the average person has poor teeth, so what exactly is their motivation to give you good advice?
Let's go over just a couple of the things that dentists recommend for you:
You should brush your teeth right after each meal -- For at least half an hour after eating the enamel of your teeth is significantly weakened by the acids in the food. Brushing your teeth during this time erodes much more of the enamel than at any other time.
You should drink water fortified with fluoride -- Consuming large amounts of fluoride in your diet causes dental fluorosis. This effect is much higher when your teeth are developing. Dental fluorosis is absolutely terrible for your teeth making them fragile and far more prone to cavities.
You should use mouthwash that kills bacteria -- You have bacteria in your mouth for a reason. We evolved to have that bacteria which helps in the initial steps of digestion and protects your teeth from harmful bacteria. On a side note, studies have shown that using mouthwash which kills bacteria is directly associated with a higher risk of heart attack.
There are many more examples, but I do not have all day.
Oh, don't worry, we fully agree with your right to speak. Just as we have the same right to speak and tell you how blatantly bigoted your statements are, but you are the one who is abusing the system in an attempt to silence your critics. The last I checked nobody was doing that to you.
It doesn't matter how high or low your IQ is, stupid is as stupid does, and you are stupid.
There is one situation where they should be treated differently. In any criminal case where the crime was committed while employed as a police officer the punishment should be automatically doubled with no judicial discretion allowed.
When you commit a crime while pretending to be fighting it as a police officer you are committing a much worse crime. Unless of course, the police want to give up all their extra protections under the law like laws about assault on a police officer, because that law is an additional weapon which they are using when they attack you. When a civilian attacks you then you have the right to defend yourself. When a police officer attacks you then you go to jail even if you didn't fight back.
Yea, they do have a larger problem, and its name is often shortened to NYPD.
I agree completely.
No, they haven't forgotten who they work for, we have. They never worked for the good of the average citizen. Their job is, and always has been, to help maintain the separation between the rich and the poor, to include protecting the rich from the poor and never the other way around.
I agree with the rest, but 2 year degree in criminal justice? Detectives might have such. The people using these things are lucky high school works like a positive displacement pump or they would have never graduated from it. I guarantee that a large portion of them would have no chance of passing the GED test.
I'll second keeping the door open for the cat. I only watch youtube for the cats anyway... (almost not joking, the internet only exists for porn, cat pictures, and cat videos)