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#537930
Terry Stroud
Is there something in our drinking water?
6/11/2008 6:36:48 PM
#537941
TheOutsider
The science education in this country is in such a sorry state.
6/11/2008 6:38:49 PM
#537942
Brian-sama
I wouldn't call this "fundie" so much as "fucking dumb."
6/11/2008 6:38:55 PM
#537949
Quaffer
Home schooling project, I'm sure.
6/11/2008 6:41:32 PM
#537960
Mister Spak
Do that with the sun and tell us how far away the sun is. Take your time getting the finger distance correct.
6/11/2008 6:44:50 PM
#537961
Beeblebrox
Dooooooooooouuuuuuuuuccccchhhhhe....
....bbbbaaaaaaaaagggggggg.
6/11/2008 6:45:43 PM
#537965
DevNull
"You'll be about as close as the scientists best guess"
True a scientists uninformed guess would be pretty bad. However, scientists do not guess. They use carefull measurement and maths.
6/11/2008 6:46:48 PM
#537984
emau99
You obviously don't understand much about astronomy.
6/11/2008 6:56:39 PM
#537985
Grigadil
Depth perception.
Imagine your eyes were 3x10^11 meters apart, instead of a couple inches. That works for nearer objects. The phenomenon is known as parallax, and can be calculated.
The measurement of really distant objects depends upon the known standard brightness of a specific stellar type (which, I forgot) and the distance can be calculated from its perceived brightness.
6/11/2008 6:57:23 PM
#537987
Osiris
We need to do something about our school's science classes.
6/11/2008 6:58:59 PM
#537992
ScienceDT
holy Mother of Ignorance.
6/11/2008 7:05:07 PM
#538002
Lucilius
Well, yeah. If your scientist is crosseyed, can't do math, is drunk, and has had numerous Bible-thumping-induced brain injuries.
In other words, a "creation scientist."
6/11/2008 7:09:33 PM
#538003
approximate
Career WalMart Greeter.
6/11/2008 7:10:04 PM
#538017
Jocelyn
"I'm crushing your head!"
6/11/2008 7:21:31 PM
#538018
Eden
Originally posted by Osiris
2008-Jun-11 06:58 PM
We need to do something about our school's science classes.
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I fear this would be useless.
By homeschooling these fundies avoid any regular scientific education in favor for whatever the twisted logic of the fundie parents produces to let it appear as if a literal interpretation of the bible is in accordance with science or at least to make it appear as if science is less reliable than the bible
6/11/2008 7:21:50 PM
#538021
Princess Rot
*facepalm*
6/11/2008 7:24:07 PM
#538026
Horsefeathers
"The way it's done is to pick a star and stare at it. Hold up your thumb and index finger in a "pincher" shape about 6 inches from your eye. Open and close pincher until all you can see it the light in the sky. Now, measure the exact distance of your pincher opening with a Stanley tape measure and multiply by any arbitrary big number. Now, divide in half and call it light years. You'll be about as close as the scientists best guess."
Not quite. My understanding is that you measure the angle to the star during a given night and then, exactly half the year later, you take another measurement from the other side of the sun. You can then use triangulation to get a reasonably rough distance to the star.
I'm sure there are other more sophisticated and much more accurate methods but even someone of your limited intellect could handle this one.
6/11/2008 7:27:07 PM
#538033
Papabear
Yeah, and if you measure the width of your butt and multiply by 15 that's how long you'll live in dog years on Mars, but scientists always cover this up.
6/11/2008 7:32:33 PM
#538055
Damen
*BUZZ!* Wrong, dumb-ass!
A light year is the distance light travels in one year's time, which is exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km.
Go directly back to school, do not pass go, do not collect $200 dollars.
6/11/2008 7:46:33 PM
#538057
No.
Real scientists use Swingline tape measures!
6/11/2008 7:48:46 PM
#538069
aaa
You are either a good troll or an imbecile.
6/11/2008 7:59:50 PM
#538080
Mayhem
I'd split the difference and say he's a good imbecile.
6/11/2008 8:10:33 PM
#538084
Viva
This is so sad. It's not even funny.
6/11/2008 8:16:30 PM
#538085
Axx
"Do that with the sun and tell us how far away the sun is. Take your time getting the finger distance correct."
But that would fry his retin-... Oh wait, I see what you did there.
6/11/2008 8:16:46 PM
#538087
anti-nonsense
Um...no. That's NOT how it's done.
Next time, do your research.
6/11/2008 8:17:50 PM
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