(facepalm) (headdesk) What fucking year is it? How does any adult take these miseryshit religions seriously?
Been a great week for religion. Between this and grown adults murdering people in a UN embassy because some ass in Florida burned a book, we're really set for the rest of the 21st century.
The Mayans! Ha! Couldn't even finish their little calendar. That's what happened to them: they all got the munchies at once, went out for snakcs, and were NEVER SEEN AGAIN! Wooooooooooooooo!
We've seen a geometric explosion of people carrying camera equipped gadgets all day every day, and still we get points of light against a black background.
So many of the anecdotal accounts describe up close encounters, huge ships hovering 50 feet off the ground or drifting slowly about in no particular hurry to hide or escape detection, all sorts of details visible. Where the phonecam shots of those? Huh? Huh? Huh? Yeah, I thought so.
And, hey, although a hard core skeptic, I would *LOVE* a real photo of an alien ship. The world could do with the punch in the crotch of that magnitude.
It can be a fun show, but I started to drift away after they were standing around drooling over some new Citroën model that looked like it had been caught in an accident between two giant trucks... and another truck fell out of the sky on top of it. That, and there was a series of shows that were mainly Clarkson creaming himself over supercars that only oil rich dictators can afford to buy and maintain. They hadn't gone on a good outing in weeks. *shrug* Maybe I'm just not that big of a car enthusiast to get excited over endless arty shots of three foot high cars whizzing past while England's majestic battleship gray skies lie turgidly in the background.
Clarkson is funny, but he can be a real dinosaur at times. Deviate from gasoline and a basic gear shift level, and he switches into "get off my lawn" mode.
I wouldn't say no to another series of James May's toy show, though. That was awesome.
In all honesty, I don't have a problem with that. Whatever gets the "masses" to reconnect with science as something other than movie supervillains or accidental apocalypses is a good thing.
If it is really better lighting, why do people need to be pushed towards it?
Cost and inertia. For a long time they were expensive. Now you can get them in 12 packs, but it's amazing how many people I meet who still think basic CFLs are $15 each. The inertia part is just ignorance. They think CFLs are sterile white like in an office or a hospital. If you do a side by side comparison with two lamps- one with CFL and one with incandescent- most can't tell the difference. Yes, I have personally done that test on people.
Me? I love the damned things. I have one on my porch that's coming up on 12 years old.
I mean, c'mon. In this world how often is the better thing the one that people go for? Look at operating systems. Look at what people eat. Look at television.
I agree with all about the dismal state of some of the "sciency" channels, but Pumpkin Chuckin is awesome.:-) C'mon, is it any worse than Mythbusters? Hell, the guys from Mythbusters hosted the thing last time. There's an art to building a proper trebuchet.
Besides, what happened is that the real science got pushed off into the auxiliary channels. Discovery Science channel is still pretty hard core. They've been showing Brian Cox's series about the solar system a lot.
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(facepalm) (headdesk) What fucking year is it? How does any adult take these miseryshit religions seriously?
Been a great week for religion. Between this and grown adults murdering people in a UN embassy because some ass in Florida burned a book, we're really set for the rest of the 21st century.
Yeah, but we use mils, or 0.001 inch, so we're just as decimally as anyone. :-P
The Mayans! Ha! Couldn't even finish their little calendar. That's what happened to them: they all got the munchies at once, went out for snakcs, and were NEVER SEEN AGAIN! Wooooooooooooooo!
...the source of this whole raging drug war river is "ZOMG, we can't let Joe Nobody in Pootville get high!"
April fool!
What? Oh.
Damn. Can we go back to the silly stories? :-(
Proton beam, actually.
Ruined the joke for me I'm afraid.
(haughty sniff)
Of course.
No sane person would ever pay to see any Jackass movie, 3D or not.
Just got the boxed set so it was on my mind.
(Glances at Time Machine status)
Done, I guess.
Ah, that's bunk. No, wait... er...
That right there is the best evidence against.
We've seen a geometric explosion of people carrying camera equipped gadgets all day every day, and still we get points of light against a black background.
So many of the anecdotal accounts describe up close encounters, huge ships hovering 50 feet off the ground or drifting slowly about in no particular hurry to hide or escape detection, all sorts of details visible. Where the phonecam shots of those? Huh? Huh? Huh? Yeah, I thought so.
And, hey, although a hard core skeptic, I would *LOVE* a real photo of an alien ship. The world could do with the punch in the crotch of that magnitude.
Wasn't that Bob the Guardian?
And there's the time Clarkson drove that weird, tiny little car around the offices. Maybe there's size limits. :-) Austin Mini or smaller is OK.
Can't drive a car into a building? Does that cover garages??? o.O
It can be a fun show, but I started to drift away after they were standing around drooling over some new Citroën model that looked like it had been caught in an accident between two giant trucks... and another truck fell out of the sky on top of it. That, and there was a series of shows that were mainly Clarkson creaming himself over supercars that only oil rich dictators can afford to buy and maintain. They hadn't gone on a good outing in weeks. *shrug* Maybe I'm just not that big of a car enthusiast to get excited over endless arty shots of three foot high cars whizzing past while England's majestic battleship gray skies lie turgidly in the background.
Clarkson is funny, but he can be a real dinosaur at times. Deviate from gasoline and a basic gear shift level, and he switches into "get off my lawn" mode.
I wouldn't say no to another series of James May's toy show, though. That was awesome.
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Here you go.
But they have thinking beings up there.
Well, sort of.
In all honesty, I don't have a problem with that. Whatever gets the "masses" to reconnect with science as something other than movie supervillains or accidental apocalypses is a good thing.
I wasn't actually advocating force, just stating why one might want to use it.
You know. That thing. With the things.
In your world, Who Mines the Dilithium?
Robots and my enemies.
If it is really better lighting, why do people need to be pushed towards it?
Cost and inertia. For a long time they were expensive. Now you can get them in 12 packs, but it's amazing how many people I meet who still think basic CFLs are $15 each. The inertia part is just ignorance. They think CFLs are sterile white like in an office or a hospital. If you do a side by side comparison with two lamps- one with CFL and one with incandescent- most can't tell the difference. Yes, I have personally done that test on people.
Me? I love the damned things. I have one on my porch that's coming up on 12 years old.
I mean, c'mon. In this world how often is the better thing the one that people go for? Look at operating systems. Look at what people eat. Look at television.
True. They learned more after they reanimated it.
I agree with all about the dismal state of some of the "sciency" channels, but Pumpkin Chuckin is awesome. :-) C'mon, is it any worse than Mythbusters? Hell, the guys from Mythbusters hosted the thing last time. There's an art to building a proper trebuchet.
Besides, what happened is that the real science got pushed off into the auxiliary channels. Discovery Science channel is still pretty hard core. They've been showing Brian Cox's series about the solar system a lot.
Goodbye any hopes for energy independence. What? Wind and solar? Sure, kid, sure.
"Aye hates mieces to pieces" [WB Sylvester the Cat]
Mr. Jinks, actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie_and_Dixie_and_Mr._Jinks
Hey, do I win pedant for the week award? :-D