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imnot

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Fawxy said:
Oh, also... I have a ridiculously hard time wrapping my head around the whole "gravity bends time" thing. Headaches abound >.<
I just try to ignore physics and hope it goes away.
 
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Liquidacid23 said:
Scarim Coral said:
So I guess I go with Pluto is in fact a planet! I just feel that denining it's a planet at all, it's a like a big screw you to the Greek who discover it in the first place and Hades himself.
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 was :p
But they did know the world was round in and around 500BC. At least not the crazy ones.
 

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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.
 

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thaluikhain said:
Oh, people voting Princess Diana's death as the most important thing to happen in the 20th century. Fuck.
Deary, deary me, really?

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 :(
 

GeneralFungi

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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.
 

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The Red Goblin said:
Consciousness can be created.

You weren't conscious when you where just sperm and egg, but at some point your consciousness came into being. And when you die it (arguably) will stop existing.
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.

OT: Sometimes while I'm walking I'll look at my legs and think, "How the hell am I doing that?"
 

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Liquidacid23 said:
Scarim Coral said:
So I guess I go with Pluto is in fact a planet! I just feel that denining it's a planet at all, it's a like a big screw you to the Greek who discover it in the first place and Hades himself.
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 was :p
erm, the Greeks knew the world was round...
 

Navvan

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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.

Scarim Coral said:
So I guess I go with Pluto is in fact a planet! I just feel that denining it's a planet at all, it's a like a big screw you to the Greek who discover it in the first place and Hades himself.
Actually it was an American Astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh who discovered Pluto in 1930.
 

KillKill

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SckizoBoy said:
Subatomic particles and their electronic charge...

Still don't get why...

Please note, I am a chemistry graduate...
What about wave particle duality, that's even screwier
 

Awsomeotaku

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uhddh said:
Pluto is a planet god damn it.
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]

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
 

Bento Box

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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 with nineteenth eighteenth fifth century science (protip: the idea of inherited characteristics within the frame of population mechanics is nothing fucking new).

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.
 

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GethBall said:
Isnt pluto technically a planet, its just called a dwarf planet.

Also the fact that Spongebob is a childrens show, seriously how did they think naming someone mr krabs who lives in bikini bottom child appropriate.
Wait what? H-how... How did I not notice, I... This changes everything!
 

Aurgelmir

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Cid SilverWing said:
Let's hear it.

What hard-proven facts do YOU find incredibly unbelievable?

To start us off, $60 games are 399 NOK here in Norway. Fresh PS3 games are 599, which is $104. Just as bad as Australia.
Although... if you look at the difference in income here in Norway vs the US 600NOK really amounts to 60dollars give or take.

But the real issue is that publishers cant do matt so they like to add zeros and swapping out $s for £s and ?s