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Action Jacktion
Jun 3, 2003

ikanreed posted:

Everyone trying to pull an "at long last have you no decency sir" on Trump

The guy who said that to McCarthy went on to play the panties-loving judge in Anatomy of a Murder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2osCWox4_k&t=123s

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Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

girl trump wrecking boy Hillary in the gender swapped focus group debate

Tsitsikovas
Aug 2, 2023

ikanreed posted:

Everyone trying to pull an "at long last have you no decency sir" on Trump

That guy who was tweeting in some defiant tone every day, that this may be his last day of freedom as a journalist under trump or some poo poo.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Tsitsikovas posted:

That guy who was tweeting in some defiant tone every day, that this may be his last day of freedom as a journalist under trump or some poo poo.

robert deniro said that Trump will arrest him if he gets re-elected lol

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
you know, the guy who ran on Locking Up several specific, named people and didn't do that? he's gonna lock up Bobby D

the milk machine
Jul 23, 2002

lick my keys
that would be really funny though

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

the milk machine posted:

that would be really funny though

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

the milk machine posted:

that would be really funny though
absolutely

that's why i posted it in the funny politics thread

the milk machine
Jul 23, 2002

lick my keys

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

absolutely

that's why i posted it in the funny politics thread

:hfive:

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010
Scott Adams predicting repeatedly that if Biden won in 2020 there would be lynch mobs roving the streets executing anyone who voted for Trump and he personally would likely be dead within months

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
scott adams saying that he was forced to vote for hillary or she would have him killed

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son




(Scott Adams's son died of an intentional opioid overdose at 19)

the milk machine
Jul 23, 2002

lick my keys
scott adams hypnotizing a young instagram model into marrying him, then hypnotizing her into divorcing him

really just everything about scott adams

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Scott Adams putting a challenge in the afterword of one of the Dilbert books for any member of the "gravity lobby" to pay Scott Adams 10K for the chance to explain why gravity is real and the earth does not double in size every thousand years

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

projecthalaxy posted:

Scott Adams putting a challenge in the afterword of one of the Dilbert books for any member of the "gravity lobby" to pay Scott Adams 10K for the chance to explain why gravity is real and the earth does not double in size every thousand years

it's the first thing I think of whenever I see his name

when you land after you jump it's the earth catching up with you lol

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Laterite posted:

it's the first thing I think of whenever I see his name

when you land after you jump it's the earth catching up with you lol

so wait how does he explain like flights or maritime shipping lanes not getting longer every day??

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Imagine that I'm imagining a universe. In this universe, there are only two objects: you and a huge planet-sized ball.There is no gravity in this hypothetical reality in the classic sense of objects being attracted to each other. There is only one rule: Every piece of matter in this universe is constantly expanding, doubling in size every second. You wouldn't notice the doubling, because both you and the huge ball would remain in the same proportion to each other. There would be no other reference points. And you wouldn't feel your own matter doubling any more than you feel the activity of the atoms in your body now.
In your current universe, you don't feel your skin cells dying, and you don't feel yourself being propelled at high velocity around the Sun or spinning with the Earth s rotation. So it shouldn't be hard to imagine how you could be doubling in size every second without being aware of it in the hypothetical universe. The only effect you would feel from this doubling in size is the illusion of gravity. The ball's growth would cause a constant pushing against you. If you tried to "jump" away from the growing ball, you would create some space temporarily, but the ball's growth would catch up with you and close The distance quickly To you, it would feel as though you were attracted to the huge ball and whenever you jumped "up," you would be sucked back down to it.

There would be no gravity, but it would look and feel exactly like gravity. Visually, it would seem that the huge ball had more "gravitational pull" than you do, because you seem to be attracted to it and not the other way around. This corresponds to our classic view of gravity‹that huge objects have more of it.

Imagine a marble and a bowling ball. Now imagine they both instantly double in size. The marble still looks pretty much like a marble, but the bowling ball appears huge. When a large object doubles in size, it seems to have a disproportionately significant impact compared to a smaller object. So if gravity is an optical illusion, large objects would appear to create more of the illusion than smaller objects. That's consistent with what we see.

Now let's move from the hypothetical universe to our current universe filled with planets and other matter. You'd have to add another rule in order for the expanding matter theory to replace gravity in the current universe. You'd have to have a universe where all the major planets are moving away from each other quickly, otherwise they'd grow until they all bumped together. In fact, the current universe does appear to be expanding, so that's no obstacle to the expanding matter theory. I can't think of anything in the "real" universe that would contradict the notion of gravity being an illusion caused by expanding matter.

To your specific question, since the ships and fuel tanks and etc are getting bigger at the same rate, it's impossible to tell. Also, given the rest of his views, I assume the answer is that he kills you.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
guy who wrote Dilbert: yeah, i'm actually smarter than Sir Isaac Newton, I've decided

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
you may notice that Newton invented Calculus to prove that his ideas about Physics and the relation of objects to each other in the Universe were correct - I didn't do any of that poo poo, however I DID write a comic about how sometimes your boss is kind of a bonehead

more falafel please
Feb 26, 2005

forums poster

one of my old coworkers had a pretty serious mental breakdown and last anyone knew he was in rockford illinois posting videos to facebook of him doing "lighter tricks" (mostly just tossing a lighter between his hands) and claiming that he had proof that the matrix was real but he could only disclose it to scott adams

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


more falafel please posted:

one of my old coworkers had a pretty serious mental breakdown and last anyone knew he was in rockford illinois posting videos to facebook of him doing "lighter tricks" (mostly just tossing a lighter between his hands) and claiming that he had proof that the matrix was real but he could only disclose it to scott adams

dudes rock

Woke Mind Virus
Aug 22, 2005

God was so bored that he killed himself is Scott's best work

Woke Mind Virus has issued a correction as of 18:12 on Mar 11, 2024

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


If you say that you have two legs in the mirror 10 times at waking and 10 at bedtime, your amputated leg will regrow, possibly by stealing the leg of a you from a parallel reality- dilberino

moist turtleneck
Jul 17, 2003

Represent.



Dinosaur Gum
The Dilbert principle was a fun book but Scott Adams decided that he was manager material based on being bad at his actual job

the milk machine
Jul 23, 2002

lick my keys

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

more falafel please posted:

one of my old coworkers had a pretty serious mental breakdown and last anyone knew he was in rockford illinois posting videos to facebook of him doing "lighter tricks" (mostly just tossing a lighter between his hands) and claiming that he had proof that the matrix was real but he could only disclose it to scott adams

This is just a normal American

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Scott Adams: confirmed for funny as hell


Mister Bates posted:

Scott Adams predicting repeatedly that if Biden won in 2020 there would be lynch mobs roving the streets executing anyone who voted for Trump and he personally would likely be dead within months

Chris Matthews (?) worried about being executed in central park by bernie bros

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010
Ben Garrison being so intensely horny for AOC that whenever she comes up he loses whatever little bit of coherence he otherwise has and dissolves into babbling nonsense

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

projecthalaxy posted:

Scott Adams putting a challenge in the afterword of one of the Dilbert books for any member of the "gravity lobby" to pay Scott Adams 10K for the chance to explain why gravity is real and the earth does not double in size every thousand years

does this mean that you can pay scott adams ten thousand smackers for the privilege of pushing him off a tall building?

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

idgi

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Cerebral Bore posted:

does this mean that you can pay scott adams ten thousand smackers for the privilege of pushing him off a tall building?

No it means you pay him ten thousand smackers to have a sit down debate with his rules with him as moderator and judge

the milk machine
Jul 23, 2002

lick my keys

shinzo abe fell into a sand trap playing golf with trump (before being obliterated)

hadji murad
Apr 18, 2006
Trump has all the luck

cohsae
Jun 19, 2015

Laterite posted:

it's the first thing I think of whenever I see his name

when you land after you jump it's the earth catching up with you lol

Unfortunately the first thing I think of when I see his name is that he thinks he can hypnotise people into cumming over the internet

Large Testicles
Jun 1, 2020

[ASK] ME ABOUT MY LOVE FOR 1'S

cohsae posted:

Unfortunately the first thing I think of when I see his name is that he thinks he can hypnotise people into cumming over the internet

i mean isn't that effectively what porn is if you're dumb and don't know what any of those words mean?

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

the milk machine posted:

shinzo abe fell into a sand trap playing golf with trump (before being obliterated)

Shinzo A-be falling.

Animal Friend
Sep 7, 2011

the warren ballot tattoos

Dr. Yinz Ljubljana
Nov 25, 2013

Animal Friend posted:

the warren ballot tattoos

The "blood and teeth" scalp tattoo? Good and metal as hell. The hex value / hashtag with a number tattoos? Very bad and unintentionally funny because a few were on the forearm and looked like concentration camp tats

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

projecthalaxy posted:

Scott Adams putting a challenge in the afterword of one of the Dilbert books for any member of the "gravity lobby" to pay Scott Adams 10K for the chance to explain why gravity is real and the earth does not double in size every thousand years

Adams is the kind of person who probably made it through high school pretty easily and made "being the smart guy" his core personality trait.

Then he spend the next four decades never once have to challenge himself to be better. Never found the edge of what he was capable of and came to the humbling realisation that where he wanted to be was on the other side of that barrier and it was going to be an Herculean effort to reach it. If ever.

So now he's just a smug prick so far up his own arse he's never coming out.


Edit: Also, lol at the gravity stuff.

It has all the hallmarks of someone who read some very dumbed-down pop-sci articles on the topic and now thinks they're an expert on the subject.

Megillah Gorilla has issued a correction as of 13:59 on Mar 12, 2024

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Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Adams is the kind of person who probably made it through high school pretty easily and made "being the smart guy" his core personality trait.

Then he spend the next four decades never once have to challenge himself to be better. Never found the edge of what he was capable of and realised where he wanted to be was on the other side of that barrier and it was going to be an Herculean effort to ever hope to reach it.

A tragically common state of mind.

actually he is a master manipulator and hypnotist. troll

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