No, it doesn't sound anything like it. One is a theory about things that happen at Big Bang levels of energy, the other is an author putting the words "space" and "fold" together.
Sadly, it's been too long since Phil's done a good Bad review. Shame, because there's been a lot of good ones these past few years, like a recent trailer talking about how we only use 20% of our brain. The old cliche used to be 10%, so maybe progress is being made.:-P Eh, maybe I'll take up the gauntlet. I have some web real estate somewhere, I think.
Three comments in, and it's a knife fight about the school system between the "Burn The Schools" crowd and the "Teachers and schools are noble places of unicorns and rainbows and they just need another fifty million billion zillion dollars" contingent.
My advice: Eff the Intertoobs. Take them out to see science and engineering in action. Go to a factory. Go someplace something gets built. Take them to some hub of commerce. Take to a stock exchange or a bank. Teach them that the numbers matter, that they have purpose and meaning. Show them the real world works, and not the filthy 1-dimensional world views you get in places like this. Field trips, my boy, field trips.
"That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest-son-of-a-bitch in space! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going until it hits something! That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years! If you pull the trigger on this you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime!" -- Alliance Sergeant in Mass Effect 2
Do you really feel that ANYTHING will make them rethink their views?
Yes. I've turned around a lot of folks on various woo topics by simply not acting like a dick. I even convinced some that the last Bush administration was really, really bad, and I didn't have yo call him Shrub or Dumbya or anything. Fancy that!
The moment you reduce any opposition to mindless robots and start name calling *you* have failed.
I like the world you live in - where all people change their opinions and beliefs once they learn new facts or contrary rational arguments. I really wish I lived there.
You do. The number of extremists on many issues is not as large as you think. Turn off the news channels and pundits and hyberbolic blogs for a while and go meet real people.
Why not hurl a few rocks their way?
Because it doesn't work, and you are now operating on a zero level of intellect. Any claim to intellectual superiority will be soundly and justifiably laughed at.
All you gentle people throwing stones - you're MORONS!
Blah, blah, blah. Blow me. Now go down and pray at your Richard Stallman altar in your basement. I criticized his latest statement, not everything that has gone before. I actually like the guy. Get a fucking grip, you loon.
In California their 2 coastal nuclear plants are designed for a 7.0 or 7.5 earthquake but there's a very good chance that California will have a larger quake in the next 30 years.
Not with our horizontal slip faults. The biggies come from the subduction zones, and the nearest stretches from Northern California up to British Columbia. And the plants were designed for 7.0 quakes *directly* underneath, and there's no faults directly under them.
Everyone is panicking now and buying iodine tablets.
What a pack of pussies the world has become.
In the 1950s, people used to watch above ground atom bomb tests in between shows and gambling in Vegas while sipping martinis.
Our current president had to be roused from his busy schedule of vacation or golf or whatever to make a comment. Former President Teddy Roosevelt once killed a Kodiak bear with his mind, and personally dug the final mile of the Panama Canal.
Send in Chuck Norris in a lead apron. He'll kill the fuel rods with one punch.
And the one movie that came out of a Heinlein work (Starship Troopers), that was actually pretty good, was good mainly because the director recognized it for the piece of fascist garbage that it was and cleverly decided to produce a parody.
Bah ha ha ha! Oh, man, that was excellent satire there, dude. You almost had me going up until that point.
I actually have to give credit to Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth" book (never saw the movie) for a its alien invasion idea. The aliens just sat up in space, safe and sound, and sent giant, automated probes buzzing around Earth that spewed poison gas.
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I don't know! O_o
Just move the Earth wherever you want to go.
China don't own Bartertown.
Company does business with censoring government; complains when government censors.
Next up: War in the Middle East! The unthinkable has happened!
No, it doesn't sound anything like it. One is a theory about things that happen at Big Bang levels of energy, the other is an author putting the words "space" and "fold" together.
Just a guy that would love to be able to buy and store more sensitive foods.
Well, I dunno... just don't be mean, and compliment them once in a while.
I know you are young and idealistic (and hopefully, a woman), but teaching is a political game, fraught with danger, low pay, and endless politics.
And, I guess, sexism.
Look at the noble egg
No, not noble eggs. They don't combine with anything so you can't make a good omelet. :-D
There: use humor! Science humor!
Well, OK, maybe not. :-(
Sadly, it's been too long since Phil's done a good Bad review. Shame, because there's been a lot of good ones these past few years, like a recent trailer talking about how we only use 20% of our brain. The old cliche used to be 10%, so maybe progress is being made. :-P Eh, maybe I'll take up the gauntlet. I have some web real estate somewhere, I think.
You win the thread even if you were joking.
Because science and math and engineering really are the tools we have to fight Sagan's demon haunted world of ignorance.
Three comments in, and it's a knife fight about the school system between the "Burn The Schools" crowd and the "Teachers and schools are noble places of unicorns and rainbows and they just need another fifty million billion zillion dollars" contingent.
My advice: Eff the Intertoobs. Take them out to see science and engineering in action. Go to a factory. Go someplace something gets built. Take them to some hub of commerce. Take to a stock exchange or a bank. Teach them that the numbers matter, that they have purpose and meaning. Show them the real world works, and not the filthy 1-dimensional world views you get in places like this. Field trips, my boy, field trips.
"That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest-son-of-a-bitch in space! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going until it hits something! That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years! If you pull the trigger on this you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime!" -- Alliance Sergeant in Mass Effect 2
Do you work for the marketing wing of Kenmore?
Oh, snap!
Yes, but the Gospel of Danbrown clearly states that Jesus did marry and have a son.
Exodus International versus RuPaul's Dragulator
I predict a quick win for the RuMan because the Dragulator goes from zero to *fabulous* in no time flat!
Hey, don't look a me. That's *his* slogan for it.
The we send his atomic super clone! Think, man, think! The manly, meaty non-wuss answers are obvious!
Do you really feel that ANYTHING will make them rethink their views?
Yes. I've turned around a lot of folks on various woo topics by simply not acting like a dick. I even convinced some that the last Bush administration was really, really bad, and I didn't have yo call him Shrub or Dumbya or anything. Fancy that!
The moment you reduce any opposition to mindless robots and start name calling *you* have failed.
I like the world you live in - where all people change their opinions and beliefs once they learn new facts or contrary rational arguments. I really wish I lived there.
You do. The number of extremists on many issues is not as large as you think. Turn off the news channels and pundits and hyberbolic blogs for a while and go meet real people.
Why not hurl a few rocks their way?
Because it doesn't work, and you are now operating on a zero level of intellect. Any claim to intellectual superiority will be soundly and justifiably laughed at.
That raises the question: can you say "hit the gas" in an electric car? ;-)
Eh, why not. I still sometimes say "I taped it" with my DVR.
All you gentle people throwing stones - you're MORONS!
Blah, blah, blah. Blow me. Now go down and pray at your Richard Stallman altar in your basement. I criticized his latest statement, not everything that has gone before. I actually like the guy. Get a fucking grip, you loon.
In California their 2 coastal nuclear plants are designed for a 7.0 or 7.5 earthquake but there's a very good chance that California will have a larger quake in the next 30 years.
Not with our horizontal slip faults. The biggies come from the subduction zones, and the nearest stretches from Northern California up to British Columbia. And the plants were designed for 7.0 quakes *directly* underneath, and there's no faults directly under them.
Everyone is panicking now and buying iodine tablets.
What a pack of pussies the world has become.
In the 1950s, people used to watch above ground atom bomb tests in between shows and gambling in Vegas while sipping martinis.
Our current president had to be roused from his busy schedule of vacation or golf or whatever to make a comment. Former President Teddy Roosevelt once killed a Kodiak bear with his mind, and personally dug the final mile of the Panama Canal.
Send in Chuck Norris in a lead apron. He'll kill the fuel rods with one punch.
And the one movie that came out of a Heinlein work (Starship Troopers), that was actually pretty good, was good mainly because the director recognized it for the piece of fascist garbage that it was and cleverly decided to produce a parody.
Bah ha ha ha! Oh, man, that was excellent satire there, dude. You almost had me going up until that point.
I actually have to give credit to Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth" book (never saw the movie) for a its alien invasion idea. The aliens just sat up in space, safe and sound, and sent giant, automated probes buzzing around Earth that spewed poison gas.
Actually, a film about a war between parallel Earths that involves characters from previous films could be a lot of fun if done right.