• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

Scientists Can't Explain...

JimTheBrit said:
Apologies for the derail.

I've been trying to get on DoD for 6 friggin' weeks now. Everytime I get a replacement copy of Half Life, I'm told my CD-key is a duplicate. :mad: :mad: :mad: Any suggestions for someone on a very tight budget?

</derail>
Click to expand...

Wish I had any, sorry. :( My knowledge in such matters is almost nonexistant.
 
One of my favorites

The next time you go to the Grand Canyon, ask one of the guides "How much deeper is the canyon now than it was when it was first discovered?" He'll have to say that it's not much deeper now than then - maybe an inch or so. It hasn't really gotten much deeper. But why not? If it was cut by wind and water erosion, why isn't it still being cut?
Click to expand...

Is it just me, or do you guys find yourselves wishing that stupidity was painful?
 
It all helps once you realize that "science cannot explain" really means either "I cannot understand the scientific explanation" or "I ignore the scientific explanation because it would shatter my belief system" .... or both.


Hans
 
Ladewig said:
One of my favorites



Is it just me, or do you guys find yourselves wishing that stupidity was painful?
Click to expand...

Stupidity is painful. Those subjected to a list of quotes such as this one invariably get headaches from banging their heads against hard objects in the hope of driving the gross idiocy out.
 
Ashles said:
You should never type "scientists can't explain" into Google.

It's like opening Pandora's Box, if Pandora's box were filled with stupid.
Click to expand...

This thread was worth it just for that comment.
 
AWPrime said:
From which #notsosmart# people are these quotes?
Click to expand...
Sorry, I usually give references, but I was attacked by a virulent fit of acute laziness. Still, if you're interested, just google to find the originals.

Can anyone else think of some more cathphrases for nuts? What I'm looking for is something like this, that catches the fundies, the New Agers, and the just plain unclassifiable. "Orthodox scien(ce/tists)" is another good one.
 
Zep said:
The last thing scientists can't explain is how the author(s) of this crap make it through the day without regularly bumping into the walls and rendering themselves unconscious.

Conversation I had with a guy on this very subject (and yes, it was this surreal):

Him: Science doesn't know how bumble-bees fly!
Me: [pause] Bumble-bees don't fly anyway.
Him: ??? Yes they do!
Me: Then scientists do know. Otherwise they wouldn't fly.
Him: But they don't know...
Me: Well then, they don't fly if scientists don't know how.
Him: ???! But they DO fly!
Me: Then scientists do know. Make up your mind.
Him: But they do fly and scientists don't know why.
Me: What makes you think scientists, those people who design extraordinary jets carrying hundreds of people thousands of kilometres, and intricate spacecraft that roam the solar system, haven't discovered by now something simple like how bumble-bees fly?
Him:.................................Scientists don't know how cockroaches survive a nuclear blasts!
Click to expand...

Funny thread this, but the above converstion is not exactly fair to the guy you were talking to. True, it's a myth, but it has been a puzzle for some time as the only way to analyse these highly viscous aerodynamic flows is by tedious numerical computation. This has only become possible in the last few decades. The equations to analyse them have been formulated a long time ago, but they are very non-linear differential equations that cannot generally be solved analytically (i.e. without being an approximation).
 
Dr Adequate said:
Sorry, I usually give references, but I was attacked by a virulent fit of acute laziness. Still, if you're interested, just google to find the originals.

Can anyone else think of some more cathphrases for nuts? What I'm looking for is something like this, that catches the fundies, the New Agers, and the just plain unclassifiable. "Orthodox scien(ce/tists)" is another good one.
Click to expand...
Oh, it was just a joke to show some of the craziness on the web! I'm truly sorry Dr A, I mistakenly took you for a nut, sorry. :o
 
I want to know why, even when I wear a white shirt, I still find blue flufff in my bellybutton.
I think it's the ghost of Sir Fred Hoyle, creating matter steadily.
 
Anders said:
Oh, it was just a joke to show some of the craziness on the web! I'm truly sorry Dr A, I mistakenly took you for a nut, sorry. :o
Click to expand...
You thought I was

(1) A fundie
(2) A pyramidiot
(3) A homophobe
(4) A New Ager
(5) Completely ignorant of science
(6) Deluded about bees

Haven't you read any of my other posts?
 
I think you should try Googling with some phrase with 'energy' in.

Answers on a postcard to:

"This short phrase with 'energy' in it caused the greatest number of hits with loony websites" competition
Norwich

N.B. This competition is not open to Victor Zammitt, or any of his friends or aquaintances or strange voices who live in his head, or 1inChrist, as they have all these sites in their favourites list already.
 
hgc said:
Amazing! A whole smorgasbord of what scientists can't explain, and not a single dish of bumblebees.
Click to expand...
The 11th quote is just plain silly. Of course we know how a bee flies. This is yet another urban legend, that a bee's body is too bulbous for its wings, so it must levitate by psychokinesis. The error lies in assuming that a bee flaps its wings up and down, like a bird. It doesn't; a bee rotates its wings in a figure-of-eight, like a helicopter. This creates sufficient lift to get and keep the bee airborne.
The writer of those quotes is a loon.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom