Everything you know is WRONG!

[Triple Zero]

Yeah, I'm not sure I would consider mathematics as a science.

Just pointing out that I do consider mathematics a Science.

I looked it up, and it seems opinions on this in the Scientific as well as Mathematical communities are just divided.

I wrote up a bunch of arguments, the basic point is that Mathematics is quite a bit more than just a tool or a language.

But then I stopped and decided it's just arguing semantics anyway, so never mind.

[AFK]

The author of that list is obviously a jazz enthusiast.  And I never realized whether or not Louis Armstrong was born in 1900 or 1901 was a big mysterious controversy. 

[Pariah]

I wish they was an item about how blood is never blue.
That pisses me off trying to explain that even with no oxygen the color of blood never even comes close to blue to normally intelligent people.

[Reginald Ret]

Huh, the equal transit time thing being false kinda caught me.

Me too! I just spent 1.5 hours learning about aerodynamics.
Air is weird.
Faster moving air learns faster so it is less dense. (or acts as if it is less dense, or something)
Air travels faster over the top of a wing and slower on the bottom of the wing (it finally gets some time in the shade, so it doesn't want to leave) and this creates lift.
And then there was something about air being sticky.
And 2 vortexes, one on the front and one on the back of the wing with the back one getting distracted by something shiny and wandering off every time the wing was moving for a while, i think rear vortexes all have ADD.
Vortexes are cool, so now the wing is attracted only by the vortex on the front. This gives extra speed to the wing and extra speed means a bigger flowspeed difference between upper and lower airlayer wich means more lift.
It makes perfect sense.

[Cramulus]

I wish they was an item about how blood is never blue.
That pisses me off trying to explain that even with no oxygen the color of blood never even comes close to blue to normally intelligent people.

in high school teacher, my bio teacher got really emotional about this. a bunch of kids were insisting that blood is blue, because they learned it from their parents, you know?

The winning argument was:

Do you watch E.R.?

   yes

Have you ever been to a hospital?

   yes

Have you ever seen a bag of blue blood?

    no

That's because BLOOD ISN'T BLUE, YOUR VEINS MAKE IT LOOK THAT WAY

[BadBeast]

America was really clever back then.
You should read up on the ghost army during the invasion of Normandy and the time they threw an corpse out of a plane dressed up like a general with false attack plants handcuffed to the wrist onto the shores of North Africa.

Is there a list of this sort of military scam somewhere?

Probably, but I don't know what it is.

Here's a bit of more modern military fuckery, with some great links too.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/11/secret-rocket-b/

[Doktor Howl]

I wish they was an item about how blood is never blue.

Unless you're a REAL AMERICAN™, you fucking commie.

[Doktor Howl]

Or an English peer.

[Jasper]

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Blood can be purple though, I think.  Depending on oxygen levels?

[Doktor Howl]

...Or on it's way to the lungs?

NO.  ALL AMERICAN BLOOD IS BLUE.  ALL OF IT.

This is a test for REAL Americans™...if you bleed red, you're a fucking commie, or some kind of leftist hippie immigrant terrorist-kisser.

[Freeky]

...Or on it's way to the lungs?

NO.  ALL AMERICAN BLOOD IS BLUE.  ALL OF IT.

This is a test for REAL Americans™...if you bleed red, you're a fucking commie, or some kind of leftist hippie immigrant terrorist-kisser.

[Requia ☣]

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Blood can be purple though, I think.  Depending on oxygen levels?

wiki says red with a blueish hue... which sounds like purple, or something similar to purple.

[Zenpeanut]

The official words from my Anatomy and Physiology textbooks say blood is either a brighter ruby red when carrying oxygen or a darker shade of red when not carrying oxygen.

[Pariah]

Both parents work in the medical field. When you have to draw blood when it has no oxygen into an airless container it comes out dark red, almost brown.

[Doktor Howl]

Both parents work in the medical field. When you have to draw blood when it has no oxygen into an airless container it comes out dark red, almost brown.

Sure.

If you're a commie.