What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
With all this focused news, I thought something different might be a welcome diversion.
With many of us being in favour of accepting science - even when it is disagreeable, I thought I would see what you all found MOST disagreeable.
For me, one of the ugliest is that the US Army, who is VERY motivated to use people, doesn't use people below a certain IQ level. This suggests that there are a lot of people that can't be made productive - even at gunpoint.
I'm also not at all fond of sevens. Math would be a lot easier for me if everyone would just fuck off with the sevens.
So which fact of science is most disagreeable to you?
With many of us being in favour of accepting science - even when it is disagreeable, I thought I would see what you all found MOST disagreeable.
For me, one of the ugliest is that the US Army, who is VERY motivated to use people, doesn't use people below a certain IQ level. This suggests that there are a lot of people that can't be made productive - even at gunpoint.
I'm also not at all fond of sevens. Math would be a lot easier for me if everyone would just fuck off with the sevens.
So which fact of science is most disagreeable to you?
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
None. I don't hold any unrealistic ideology of which the facts of science are inconvenient.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
Of course you are above disliking a new fact. I'm surprised you even deign to respond to a thread like this, since it is clearly aimed at lesser humans.
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
Where to start? Cosmic speed limit? --fuck you!
Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
If you are referring to the cry of the plebes 'you canna go faster than C', then I wouldn't worry. You CAN travel faster, if you just agree to travel less far.
Star Wars had it right, when Han bragged about doing the Kessel run in less than x parsecs. He was referring to how much he was able to reduce the distance by warping space. Hell, warp it enough, and your walking speed is enough to cross any distance.
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
I've never really liked the Planck Length as a unit, specially one that measures how far light travels over a unit of Planck Time. The Wanck Length though, the unit that measures how far the bus travels before someone calls the police, now that's something I can get to grips with.Sean Hayden wrote:Where to start? Cosmic speed limit? --fuck you!
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
Newsflash: Star Wars is not science.Cunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:29 pmIf you are referring to the cry of the plebes 'you canna go faster than C', then I wouldn't worry. You CAN travel faster, if you just agree to travel less far.
Star Wars had it right, when Han bragged about doing the Kessel run in less than x parsecs. He was referring to how much he was able to reduce the distance by warping space. Hell, warp it enough, and your walking speed is enough to cross any distance.
I don't exactly hate any fact of science, but I am miffed about:
1) The problem of induction. It renders everything we know scientifically provisional.
2) Flowing from the above, we can't even say our scientific theories correspond to reality. At best we can say that they make sets of observations as we perceive them cohere.
3) Nobody has come up with a unified theory of everything yet. Worse than that, we don't even know if there can be one.
4) Singularities. Those points beyond which our best laws no longer apply.
5) Light. Its wave–particle duality gave rise to that most confounding scientific theory of all.
6) Yes, and the speed limit. Until someone comes up with something that supersedes the general theory of relativity there is not even a theoretical possibility of breaking it.
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
You get stuck on facts, and it gets in the way of inspiration.
I once saw a printed poster on a pal's wall. It was a distant nebula, and he said, proof of our existing ability to exceed light speed, AND our promise to do so in even more concrete ways.
He pointed out that, with my focus on that rendering of a distant nebula, I was THERE. Nevermind that it was a previous time, and an impossible distance away, my focus and thoughts were there as much as I was my Mom's focus.
More practically, if the 'speed across space' is indeed limited (seems rational) then it simply is a matter of altering space to allow travel using that speed.
Not even theoretically possible yet, but if it weren't for those fuckity sevens, it would be a lot easier to figure this shit out.
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
Sorry about that. I blame the thread's title for getting stuck on facts of science. Somehow it makes me reluctant to accept that a fairy tale set in the future or waxing lyrical at the sight of a poster depicting a distant nebula qualify as proof of an existing ability to exceed light speed. Maybe if I took up smoking dope again...
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
You are just mad because Han was right.
I blame the education system.
I blame the education system.
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
12 parsecs is about 38 light-years.
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
You're really flying now, man.
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
I understand why you would say that.
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Re: What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?
Ya, the most promising, optimistic view gets pretty fucking sad in the long run. If you go long enough.
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