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Started by LMNO, April 01, 2014, 05:50:04 PM

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hooplala

Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 02, 2014, 02:23:33 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on April 02, 2014, 02:18:02 PM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 02, 2014, 02:16:46 PM
For example: I slowly became aware of Kaku because I noticed him more and more on TV. At first I was like, "ah ok, that's pretty cool" and then one day I was just like, "is this guy a crackpot?" so I poked around the internet and he's not a crackpot. He just seems like it sometimes. The fact that I had to ask that about an otherwise respectable scientist means that there's something flawed in his delivery.

I guess because he's willing to at least entertain most questions, no matter how berserk... a lot of other scientists would just laugh you off.

That makes sense. And I can see the value in that too, but the "if it were possible, here's how it would work" can get garbled in the cuckoo filters. And ultimately he has no say in how the show gets edited anyway.

And that's the thing... you know how often I read people quoting Kaku on GLP?  Answer: a lot.
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Quote from: Hoopla on April 02, 2014, 02:25:42 PM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 02, 2014, 02:23:33 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on April 02, 2014, 02:18:02 PM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 02, 2014, 02:16:46 PM
For example: I slowly became aware of Kaku because I noticed him more and more on TV. At first I was like, "ah ok, that's pretty cool" and then one day I was just like, "is this guy a crackpot?" so I poked around the internet and he's not a crackpot. He just seems like it sometimes. The fact that I had to ask that about an otherwise respectable scientist means that there's something flawed in his delivery.

I guess because he's willing to at least entertain most questions, no matter how berserk... a lot of other scientists would just laugh you off.

That makes sense. And I can see the value in that too, but the "if it were possible, here's how it would work" can get garbled in the cuckoo filters. And ultimately he has no say in how the show gets edited anyway.

And that's the thing... you know how often I read people quoting Kaku on GLP?  Answer: a lot.

Oh dear. What's GLP?
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Ah, never mind. Godlike Productions. Took me a couple of minutes.
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Kaku doing "The Science of Mass Effect" at the exact point in the franchise when they decided to ignore all the lore and the laws of physics probably didn't help his credibility any.

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hooplala

The fact that the earth revolving around the sun can still be a topic of discussion in 2014 makes me want to kick all the babies.
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"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

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Quote from: Hoopla on April 08, 2014, 02:07:53 AM
The fact that the earth revolving around the sun can still be a topic of discussion in 2014 makes me want to kick all the babies.

Earth's flat.  I can refute any proof to the contrary.
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Quote from: Hoopla on April 08, 2014, 02:07:53 AM
The fact that the earth revolving around the sun can still be a topic of discussion in 2014 makes me want to kick all the babies.

I mean fuck, we can disprove geocentrism by looking at the moon next week.

Of course that's got its own bullshit going on there. One of my housemates thinks its a sign of the End Times because there's a lunar eclipse happening on Passover. Never mind that due to the Hebrew calendar being lunar that makes eclipses of any sort on a Jewish holiday a rather common occurrence.
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hooplala

Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 08, 2014, 02:10:48 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on April 08, 2014, 02:07:53 AM
The fact that the earth revolving around the sun can still be a topic of discussion in 2014 makes me want to kick all the babies.

I mean fuck, we can disprove geocentrism by looking at the moon next week.

Of course that's got its own bullshit going on there. One of my housemates thinks its a sign of the End Times because there's a lunar eclipse happening on Passover. Never mind that due to the Hebrew calendar being lunar that makes eclipses of any sort on a Jewish holiday a rather common occurrence.

Oy vey.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Nephew Twiddleton

Quote from: Hoopla on April 08, 2014, 02:43:01 AM
Quote from: (Doktor (Nephew Twiddleton (Twid)) Blight) on April 08, 2014, 02:10:48 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on April 08, 2014, 02:07:53 AM
The fact that the earth revolving around the sun can still be a topic of discussion in 2014 makes me want to kick all the babies.

I mean fuck, we can disprove geocentrism by looking at the moon next week.

Of course that's got its own bullshit going on there. One of my housemates thinks its a sign of the End Times because there's a lunar eclipse happening on Passover. Never mind that due to the Hebrew calendar being lunar that makes eclipses of any sort on a Jewish holiday a rather common occurrence.

Oy vey.

Yeah, it's apparently a thing going around. I mean, why not. It's been like, 2 years since the last End of the World. We need another one to keep the people interested in this very tardy Jesus.
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hooplala

It's good to have something to look forward to.
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"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: Hoopla on April 08, 2014, 02:07:53 AM
The fact that the earth revolving around the sun can still be a topic of discussion in 2014 makes me want to kick all the babies.

I'm kinda shit at astrophysics but my gut tells me that it should be possible to pick any arbitrary point in the universe, declare it static and generate a model of everything else moving around it. Seems like a kind of dumb waste of time tho.

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Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 08, 2014, 09:02:57 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on April 08, 2014, 02:07:53 AM
The fact that the earth revolving around the sun can still be a topic of discussion in 2014 makes me want to kick all the babies.

I'm kinda shit at astrophysics but my gut tells me that it should be possible to pick any arbitrary point in the universe, declare it static and generate a model of everything else moving around it. Seems like a kind of dumb waste of time tho.

So long as you don't look too closely, yes.

Nephew Twiddleton

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 08, 2014, 09:02:57 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on April 08, 2014, 02:07:53 AM
The fact that the earth revolving around the sun can still be a topic of discussion in 2014 makes me want to kick all the babies.

I'm kinda shit at astrophysics but my gut tells me that it should be possible to pick any arbitrary point in the universe, declare it static and generate a model of everything else moving around it. Seems like a kind of dumb waste of time tho.

Polaris would be a good candidate
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