Scientists are god-less liberals

[Eastoff]

that's rare and it doesn't mean science itself is corrupt. the scientific community by its own rigorously self-policing nature weeds out potential corruption very quickly.

Well, I don't know about the very quickly part. I could imagine some aging professor that isn't as original anymore, and has to get that grant money in, so he fudges some numbers hoping nobody will catch him. But, like we both agreed, they will get caught quickly.

 

[Idog1976]

This stupid claim persists because it's funny.

And that's good enough for me.

The claim persists, just like the claim that manmade global warming is bs persists, not because of any good natured ribbing, but for very cynical political manipulation purposes. Nuff' said LOL.

The fact that scientists so overwhelmingly are concerned about Global Warming/Climate Change is almost certainly one of the main reasons so many are Democrats not the other way around. I also thinkt he Republican track record of blocking research and cutting educational and scientific research funding whenever given the opportunity makes scientists more likely to identify as Democrats.

I'm a big believer in a primarily free market but just as I don't think Child Slave Labor should be used (some would consider this a fetter that "Capitalism" wants to break) I also don't think its a good idea to flood groundwater with Cyanide from improperly done gold mining for instance. Destroying the life support system on our spaceship is a WAY bad idea. I'm starting to think that old Freudian thinking that alot of people have a secret death wish motivating their Psychology really has some truth to it. There isnt' any other explaination for me as to why people don't take this more seriously. For godsake the Pentagon does!

 

[BlazerWookee]

There is just one. And there are 4 elephants on top of it. And they carry the discworld.

LOL, I'm reading Pyramids again right now, lol...

 

[barfo]

I've heard that some physicists are backing off on the "holy grail" that is string theory. Somethings weren't being found that should, or measurements were off from expected values. I would have liked it to be true though =[

It still may be. There have always been string-theory skeptics, that's nothing new.

barfo

 

[Eastoff]

It still may be. There have always been string-theory skeptics, that's nothing new.

barfo

well i meant some that believed and then changed their mind back.

 

[Denny Crane]

it has been a long time since i read it, but i seem to recall in the book ellie discovers evidence for an underlying order to the universe - something that could be evidence of some sort of purpose to life, but not necessarily something "more than what science offers". the book was more about discovering that there might be more to the universe than we think through science.

i also recall being surprised at how much to gist of the movie will all the emphasis on religious-type faith seemed different than the book.

The movie was quite true to the book...

She did find some sort of underlying order. But she sounded like a preacher in her own right, in the end. She had said a few times in the book that she didn't believe in things she couldn't objectively measure, yet here she was telling people what she saw, felt, and learned though nobody else could objectively measure it.

 

[barfo]

well i meant some that believed and then changed their mind back.

Ah, I see.

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

Actually I believe we landed on Venus and then the probe disintegrated after awhile.

We also landed Cassini-Huygens on Saturn's moon, Titan.

 

[julius]

I don't feel like looking through the thread..did anyone make a "We've landed on Uranus" jokes yet?

 

[barfo]

I don't feel like looking through the thread..did anyone make a "We've landed on Uranus" jokes yet?

Everyone here is way too mature for that sort of thing. Well, with one exception.

barfo

 

[julius]

Everyone here is way too mature for that sort of thing. Well, with one exception.

barfo

So you're saying that HCP made the joke already?

 

[Eastoff]

So you're saying that HCP made the joke already?

I think we actually crashed into uranus, it was not gentle.

 

[barfo]

I think we actually crashed into uranus, it was not gentle.

Probably didn't cause any damage to uranus, however. Uranus is pretty huge, it can take a pounding.

barfo

 

[julius]

Probably didn't cause any damage to uranus, however. Uranus is pretty huge, it can take a pounding.

barfo

I hear HCP probes Uranus several times a week.

 

[Eastoff]

I hear HCP probes Uranus several times a week.

atleast he's not probing any suns

 

[BrianFromWA]

A probe was sent to Uranus, and the data that came back shocked the scientific community. After all this time thinking it's full of gas, it actually turned out to be full of $#it.

 

[Eastoff]

A probe was sent to Uranus, and the data that came back shocked the scientific community. After all this time thinking it's full of gas, it actually turned out to be full of $#it.

You should go see your doctor man, that doesn't sound right. I think you're missing a funny bone.

 

[julius]

A probe was sent to Uranus, and the data that came back shocked the scientific community. After all this time thinking it's full of gas, it actually turned out to be full of $#it.

You should careful when you probe Uranus, you don't know what you might find there. There could be a life form deep inside Uranus.