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lord funk posted:asked a class of college students today if they knew who mr. wizard was. no one raised their hand. that makes sense, mr. wizard was before their time the sad part is that I don't think they have an equivalent to mr. wizard, or even what bill nye/beakman did back in the 90s
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ahmeni posted:did anyone mention the part with the tribe that eats literal poo poo oh yeah, that part I don't know where banks was going with that part, but thankfully that's the worst of it, the rest is better
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Jan 29, 2013 22:44
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Deacon of Delicious posted:that makes sense, mr. wizard was before their time im literally that demographic and i know what bill nye is cmon even my 12 year old sister does
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Jan 29, 2013 22:48
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Deacon of Delicious posted:that makes sense, mr. wizard was before their time the closest we've got are the mythbusters but they aren't aimed at kids
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Jan 29, 2013 22:49
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yeah one of them said they had bill nye. yospos themed mr. wizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90T0g9T_6UE
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Jan 29, 2013 22:52
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nigga crab pollock posted:im literally that demographic and i know what bill nye is cmon even my 12 year old sister does ok, yes he still does science stuff, but not like he was on his show back in the 90s. my point was where are the science for kids growing up 2000ish-present! i am just a little bummed out there is not more science
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Jan 29, 2013 22:55
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Deacon of Delicious posted:ok, yes he still does science stuff, but not like he was on his show back in the 90s. my point was where are the science for kids growing up 2000ish-present! i am just a little bummed out there is not more science teach the controversy
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Jan 29, 2013 22:56
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was it bill nye who got booed in texas for saying that the light of the moon was reflected sunlight and not the benevolent glory of jesus himself
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qirex posted:was it bill nye who got booed in texas for saying that the light of the moon was reflected sunlight and not the benevolent glory of jesus himself yup quote:The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”
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dur posted:yup 
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lord funk posted:yeah one of them said they had bill nye. yospos themed bill nye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHOVRhN5yTA
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dur posted:yup lol that's one of the worst things I've read on the Internet
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In 2010, 40% of Americans still believed in creationism which is fairly loving mind-boggling. Also two or three months ago I was talking to this girl a buddy of mine brought on a group vacation, and when I told her I had taken a class on vertebrate evolution she started asking all these questions about whether I really believed in evolution and how plausible it is that we could go from single cells to humans at all. She was literally the first person I've ever interacted with that doubted evolution and I was a lil too stunned to try to answer her
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Ugh I remember being accosted by two creationists on a bus one time; they busted out the "how could something like the human eye possibly evolve?" argument and I was actually kind of looking forward to discussing it because I happened to have just read some article about the evolution of the eye and how all the intermediate forms are actually found in nature &c. Of course when I started talking about it and they realized that I actually had a high-school level understanding of biology, they tried switching tracks and telling me about how god loves me so much that, from what I understand, he hates everything that I do (except for telling him that he's great). I feel all /r/atheism just telling this story but I mean gently caress, how are people so stupid. There's exabytes of freely available information about every subject imaginable that you can access instantly from the comfort of your own home but they prefer to stay ignorant? I don't get it.
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ol qwerty bastard posted:I feel all /r/atheism just telling this story but I mean gently caress, how are people so stupid. There's exabytes of freely available information about every subject imaginable that you can access instantly from the comfort of your own home but they prefer to stay ignorant? I don't get it. cuz stories are fun. which is what this thread is about
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the best part of Origin of Species was how loving clueless Darwin was about DNA, something I don't think even the hardest core fundie would call bullshit and yet there's your way children inherit traits and bunches of other poo poo that had ya stumped Chuck
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And also the guy who figured out genetics was a monk. Although who else would have the time and patience to crossbreed pea plants for 30 years.
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LooseChanj posted:the best part of Origin of Species was how loving clueless Darwin was about DNA, something I don't think even the hardest core fundie would call bullshit and yet there's your way children inherit traits and bunches of other poo poo that had ya stumped Chuck
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ol qwerty bastard posted:And also the guy who figured out genetics was a monk. yeah i started "a canticle for liebowitz" and those monks, man, they don't have much free time but it is spread out over decades
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Cocoa Crispies posted:yo i'm reading wikipedia right now and the idea that traits would be encoded in a big-rear end molecule didn't happen until like forty years after darwin died Speaking of Evolution/DNA, I specially like the part of the story where a woman does most of the work to figure the structure of DNA and 2 guys take pretty much all the credit for it.
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ilikelettuce posted:Speaking of Evolution/DNA, I specially like the part of the story where a woman does most of the work to figure the structure of DNA and 2 guys take pretty much all the credit for it. yo I just learned about that in my biology class last semester. I was p mad Genetics is loving awesome and can't wait to learn more about it
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ilikelettuce posted:Speaking of Evolution/DNA, I specially like the part of the story where a woman does most of the work to figure the structure of DNA and 2 guys take pretty much all the credit for it. Yeah, and then one of guys who got the credited feels totally vindicated to go around the world saying how black people are simple minded.
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ilikelettuce posted:Speaking of Evolution/DNA, I specially like the part of the story where a woman does most of the work to figure the structure of DNA and 2 guys take pretty much all the credit for it. learned about this last year. my professor brought her up all the time and really hated the 2 guys. he's met one of them but i forget which she would have gotten a lot more recognition if it was possible for people to receive posthumous Nobel prizes. since they can't she wasn't even able to be nominated so no one even heard of her until years later crick at least admitted to it later, watson was a huge poo poo instead
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There's a great documentary (with Attenborough I think) called "What Darwin Didn't Know", which is pretty much entirely about all of the stuff that we've found since Origin that backs up Darwin's ideas. It's fantastic, was made for that Darwin Day thing a few years ago. Also, people need to check out "Inside Nature's Giants", which is giant animal autopsies combined with explanations for why (for example) the nerve that runs from a giraffe's brain to its larynx goes all the way down its neck, around the heart, and back up the neck. Joy Reidenberg is also a fantastic science presenter and she needs her own tv show.
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Heresiarch posted:Also, people need to check out "Inside Nature's Giants", which is giant animal autopsies combined with explanations for why (for example) the nerve that runs from a giraffe's brain to its larynx goes all the way down its neck, around the heart, and back up the neck. Joy Reidenberg is also a fantastic science presenter and she needs her own tv show. i love this show. i can't think of any other scientific show that goes into as much specifics. the giraffe has a really idiosyncratic biology
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Also see if you can get the UK version of the show, which I think is a channel 4 production. It was shown on some American cable network too, but it's edited down a bit. I would post the greatest screenshot on the history of television, but I think the mods would object to a jpeg of the kangaroo's triple vagina.
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Heresiarch posted:Also see if you can get the UK version of the show, which I think is a channel 4 production. It was shown on some American cable network too, but it's edited down a bit. the whole uk version is on youtube
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Win8 Hetro Experie posted:oh yeah, that part the rest was okay starting player of games now, hope it's good
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@TNG_S8: Ghosts of long-dead crewmen harass Troi. Riker's fight with a lizard alien turns romantic, leading to sensual massaging and heavy petting. Picard must relax for a week while his new heart is delivered. GEORDI AND WORF CONTRACT A RARE SCREAMING DISEASE. Emotional awareness threatens the collective after the Borg assimilate Troi. Geordi & Data's elaborate musical numbers upset Worf. Worf unwillingly participates in his niece's coming-of-age human hunt. Riker has misplaced his chest comb and it's getting bad.
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regularizer posted:In 2010, 40% of Americans still believed in creationism which is fairly loving mind-boggling. also i watched the total recall remake today and it was really really eh. not even bad just completely forgettable. well actually there were some bad things about it like the plot being full of holes (no psychics in this version so why bother with making quaid at all, cohaagen setting up "The Resistance" as an excuse to kick everyone out of "The Colony" and then not even mentioning it when he invades) and hinging on retarded science (gravity in free fall, toxic and breathable atmospheres staying neatly separated because there's no wind in the future). i couldn't tell how good the special effects were because everything looked like a goddamn video game anyway (when you're tired of ripping off blade runner, go for minority report!) and might as well have been one. destroying the elevator was completely bullshit. yeah chopping the world in half was a good thing because the elevator was built by TEH VILLAN OH NOEZ. "symbol of oppression" my rear end. also the piano scene was literally the only part of the movie that had any emotional resonance with me because the characters were so unidimensional and generic that i couldn't even care the rest of the time. i know that the moron science and single-trait characters were even worse in the original movie but goddamn it wasn't SERIOUS about them. the remake is just "dramatic" as hell when people aren't punching each other and it's so much hot air that you could lift like five balloons with it. on second thought this movie was pretty bad. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Jan 31, 2013 |
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I didn't even manage to finish it. Got about halfway through, thought to myself "wow, I'm not enjoying this movie at all" and turned it off. I don't know how they could so entirely fail at making it entertaining. It's not like anyone even expected it to be good, per se, but there are plenty of bad movies that are still fun to watch.
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they should make a valis adaptation starring mark wahlberg as horselover fat
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oh man i'm so oppressed with my job at the robot factory that has to be on the other side of the world for some reason despite habitable space being a premium there and my commute uses superscale engineering to make passing beside the planet's core no different than a train ride so i hate it as a symbol of said oppression
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the biggest plot hole is that australia is a valuable place worth invading
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ol qwerty bastard posted:I didn't even manage to finish it. Got about halfway through, thought to myself "wow, I'm not enjoying this movie at all" and turned it off.
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boba fett mustve felt pretty weird running around a galaxy where most of the space cops and space soldiers were clones of his dad
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Al! posted:boba fett mustve felt pretty weird running around a galaxy where most of the space cops and space soldiers were clones of his dad
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Al! posted:boba fett mustve felt pretty weird running around a galaxy where most of the space cops and space soldiers were clones of his dad i love how they don't even address the moral implications of manufacturing fuckloads of people to blow poo poo up, nor do they address the complete meaninglessness of the clone wars due to the pawns being literal numbers and robots like who cares really, if you're a loving moisture farmer or some poo poo does it matter that LX-9382 shot the poo poo out of fett.jango65498?
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MancXVI posted:i love how they don't even address the moral implications of manufacturing fuckloads of people to blow poo poo up, nor do they address the complete meaninglessness of the clone wars due to the pawns being literal numbers and robots whoa a 90-minute toy commercial doesn't cover the moral implications of galactic war  tell me more
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Cocoa Crispies posted:whoa a 90-minute toy commercial doesn't cover the moral implications of galactic war if your toy commercials don't have massive civilian casualties and war crimes then i don't know what to tell you
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