True facts you can't get yourself to believe
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But they did know the world was round in and around 500BC. At least not the crazy ones.Liquidacid23 said:so I guess you want us to continue to believe the world is flat too? I mean wouldn't wanna give a "big screw you" to all those ancient Greek scientists who claimed it wasScarim Coral said:
That coffee doesn't actually cause a buzz until thirty minutes in...and even then it lasts for only a few seconds. Stuff gets me wired, though it may all be psychosomatic at this point.
Deary, deary me, really?thaluikhain said:
The fact that I can't swallow is that I started High School playing the second Half-Life, and will probably finish High School before getting a go on Half-Life 3
Darn it, I misread what you had typed.
Sorry. ^^;;
I've been told I that I am lazy, but I tell them that I move over 10,000 km on a daily basis. Some people still don't understand what I mean.
Sorry. ^^;;
I've been told I that I am lazy, but I tell them that I move over 10,000 km on a daily basis. Some people still don't understand what I mean.
i was sad too but then i found out that there are many Pluto sized balls of ice is the kuiper beltuhddh said:
This has always spiked my curiosity. However if it was ever created or destroyed at any point is arguable. Modern science is pretty much in the dark about it.The Red Goblin said:
OT: Sometimes while I'm walking I'll look at my legs and think, "How the hell am I doing that?"
Well I can't think of any facts I can't bring my self to believe once I know the details behind them. However I was a bit shocked when I found out the sun was white and the color pink has no corresponding wavelength.
Actually it was an American Astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh who discovered Pluto in 1930.Scarim Coral said:
Also this. As far as I'm concerned if a body which orbits a star has enough mass for it to be spherical it should be a planet. If that means there's suddenly a hundred planets in our solar system then so be it, why not? I don't see any reason why that definition is insufficient.[/quote]uhddh said:
Yeah but think about it for a sec. The schools will probably try and make us memorize all of them, and I can barely remember the current 8/9
That there is still a substantial number of people who cling to the halcyon nostalgia of having a planet in the solar system whose name matched that of a cartoon dog.
No, really. Chapter seven. [fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_The_Pluto_Files] It's also worth watching chapter eight to understand why the word planet is largely useless.
Words have to have definitions, and definitions have to have boundaries -- if those boundaries are too broad, then you get stellar bodies like Mercury being defined similarly to astral bodies like Earth, being defined similarly to astral bodies like Saturn.
Speaking of definitions...
"It's just a theory*."
It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how the United States of America can be more than 40% creationist [http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publib.htm]. It's the twenty-first century, and this country has yet to catch up withnineteenth eighteenth fifth century science (protip: the idea of inherited characteristics within the frame of population mechanics is nothing fucking new).
No, really. Chapter seven. [fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_The_Pluto_Files] It's also worth watching chapter eight to understand why the word planet is largely useless.
Words have to have definitions, and definitions have to have boundaries -- if those boundaries are too broad, then you get stellar bodies like Mercury being defined similarly to astral bodies like Earth, being defined similarly to astral bodies like Saturn.
Speaking of definitions...
"It's just a theory*."
It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how the United States of America can be more than 40% creationist [http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publib.htm]. It's the twenty-first century, and this country has yet to catch up with
The word 'theory' has two definitions, and they are damn near diametric opposites -- the first is the colloquial definition, and the one used by smug cunts trying to dodge facts: "a hunch."
Within science, though, the word theory means, "an area of study." It's the highest order of respect you can achieve within science, because it means that we have collected enough facts and understanding about you, that we can define your properties and, if we're really lucky or diligent, explain them and their causes in exacting detail. That's where evolutionary theory is. We know more about speciation than we do about gravity, and we know more about biology -- and how evolution works -- than we do about the mechanics behind any facet of physics.
Within science, though, the word theory means, "an area of study." It's the highest order of respect you can achieve within science, because it means that we have collected enough facts and understanding about you, that we can define your properties and, if we're really lucky or diligent, explain them and their causes in exacting detail. That's where evolutionary theory is. We know more about speciation than we do about gravity, and we know more about biology -- and how evolution works -- than we do about the mechanics behind any facet of physics.
Although... if you look at the difference in income here in Norway vs the US 600NOK really amounts to 60dollars give or take.Cid SilverWing said:
But the real issue is that publishers cant do matt so they like to add zeros and swapping out $s for £s and ?s