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| Hypatia |
Posted on 03/22/2012 20:57
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"We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe". "We define ourselves as intelligent; that's odd because we're doing the definition... " http://www.dailym...verse_tech |
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| cheshiredragon |
Posted on 03/22/2012 23:30
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With due respect, what are you trying to prove here? 45sec - 58sec is my pull  We are sardust: H - Hydrogen O - Oxygen C- Carbon Ca - Calcium N - Nitrogen P - Phosphorus My tattoos will express this...keep an update. err well I will heh I love Neil Tyson, Michio Kaku and several others That's right, I said it...
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| catman |
Posted on 03/22/2012 23:50
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I like Neil Tyson more than I like Mike Tyson.
"If I owned both Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas." - General Sheridan
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| Cynic |
Posted on 03/23/2012 07:01
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If you'd said "I like Neil DeGrasse Tyson better than I like genital herpes" I'm not sure it would have come across as any less positive. ;-) |
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| Theory_Execution |
Posted on 03/23/2012 08:11
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Youn say that, but genital herpes grow on ya. |
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| JohnH |
Posted on 03/23/2012 16:29
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Getting back to a more rational discussion of Mr. Tyson. He exhibited in the video something I am fairly certain I have noticed before. Trying to explain 4th and beyond dimensions he described the situation of a bug trapped in a sheet of paper as 2 dimensional. Wrong, paper has a thickness and is in fact 3 dimensional. Moreover how could you trap any imaginable bug in a sheet of paper without folding it over again creating a third dimension. So my mind drifted off thinking about this and I missed whatever his point was entirely. In the process of talking about science in a fashion that could possibly be understood by all he makes misstatements of fact and allows people who have some understanding of science and physics to actually become confused. I have no doubt he is a very intelligent person, he does have the credentials to suggest that. But he has fooled people into believing that he can explain complex problems to the "masses" when in fact his explanations are not accurate and when thought of can confuse. Again I do not think this is the first time I have noticed this tendency, and I may be being picky because I know just enough math and physics to get myself in trouble. |
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