I think they also had the ship made out of unobtanium
Which is the movie where they fly a rocket ship to nuke the sun because it's going cold? That one had great fake science too.
Yeah but Sunshine wasn't really a sci-fi movie at heart. It was space drama/horror. The sun thing was just the pretense for getting them out there in space so far from Earth and having to deal with shit without any hope of external assistance.
Perhaps inspired by TV favourites such as Doctor Who and Ashes to Ashes, nearly a third of Britons (30%) believe that time travel is actually possible. The results were revealed in a survey, launched at the start of National Science and Engineering Week (11-20 March) by Birmingham Science City (www.birminghamsciencecity.co.uk), which aimed to see just how blurred the lines between science and fiction really are.
Other findings included:
1. Over a fifth of adults incorrectly believe light sabres exist.
2. Nearly a quarter (24%) of people are wrong in their belief that humans can be teleported.
3. Nearly 50% of adults wrongly believe that memory-erasing technology exists.
4. More than 40% of people incorrectly believe that hover boards exist.
5. Nearly one fifth (18%) of adults have the incorrect view that they can see gravity.
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Y'know, I never passed biology in highschool (homework issue really) and I never took chemistry because I found a science-class loophole. But those poll questions are easy-peasy and while I may not be very good with science I at least respect it enough to know its importance and not be dismissive of it.
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Event Horizon was a 100% scientifically accurate portrayal of what happens if you enter the Warp without your Gellar Field activated.
Whenever we play Deathwatch with a new guy who doesn't know the background, we always say "yeah, if the Gellar Field fails, you've seen Event Horizon right? Basically that."
Surveys like this can be bullshitted so badly though... a question like "can you see gravity" can get a response like "I see apples fall from trees, so in a sense I see the effects of gravity... so yes, therefore I see gravity"
It's like the question about the length of time it takes the earth to go around the sun... is it worded like this?
How long does it take for the earth to go around the sun?
a)Less than 1 year
b)More than 1 year
c)Exactly 1 year
or the Genetics, which possibly didn't have an answer that would allow the surveyed to say that they didn't know (not that this answer excuses people from not knowing)
There are still a lot of really dumb people though, even if surveys like this are geared more towards exaggerating their stupidity
Event Horizon was a 100% scientifically accurate portrayal of what happens if you enter the Warp without your Gellar Field activated.
Whenever we play Deathwatch with a new guy who doesn't know the background, we always say "yeah, if the Gellar Field fails, you've seen Event Horizon right? Basically that."
i think a lot of population problems would be solved if more people were just gay
i imagine if everybody wasn't so caught up on it, a considerable chunk would be gay
Event Horizon was a 100% scientifically accurate portrayal of what happens if you enter the Warp without your Gellar Field activated.
Whenever we play Deathwatch with a new guy who doesn't know the background, we always say "yeah, if the Gellar Field fails, you've seen Event Horizon right? Basically that."
Deathwatch is awesome btw
Dark Heresy is better. Space Marines are overrated.
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Simply put...Tomatoes don't have genes according to 49% of adult Americans surveyed.
Really... 49% of Americans think normal tomatoes don't have genes...how the fuck do you think said tomatoes are genetically modified, huh? RIDDLE ME THAT ASSHOLE! WHAT GENES ARE MODIFIED IF THEY DON'T HAVE ANY, FUCKSTICK!
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Also, 1/3 of adults disagree that the earth goes around the sun once a year. 1 out of 3. Are you fucking kidding me? This was done in 2008, not 1888. What the fuck people.
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What spring does with the cherry trees.
Event Horizon was a 100% scientifically accurate portrayal of what happens if you enter the Warp without your Gellar Field activated.
Whenever we play Deathwatch with a new guy who doesn't know the background, we always say "yeah, if the Gellar Field fails, you've seen Event Horizon right? Basically that."
Deathwatch is awesome btw
Dark Heresy is better. Space Marines are overrated.
Even if you don't like playing Space Marines and want to play an Inquisitor campaign, Deathwatch is better because it actually works for the system
Dark Heresy sucks balls because you are shit at everything and the system fails at that level, but Deathwatch is the funnest thing ever and the best 40K RPG hands down.
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I am in the "questions are probably designed to trip people up" camp. Want your poll results to get passed around and seen by a lot of people? Play to the "lookit how dumb everyone else is" sentiment that pretty much everyone has (not to say that we don't have a huge scientific literacy problem).
Event Horizon was a 100% scientifically accurate portrayal of what happens if you enter the Warp without your Gellar Field activated.
Whenever we play Deathwatch with a new guy who doesn't know the background, we always say "yeah, if the Gellar Field fails, you've seen Event Horizon right? Basically that."
Deathwatch is awesome btw
Dark Heresy is better. Space Marines are overrated.
Even if you don't like playing Space Marines and want to play an Inquisitor campaign, Deathwatch is better because it actually works for the system
Dark Heresy sucks balls because you are shit at everything and the system fails at that level, but Deathwatch is the funnest thing ever and the best 40K RPG hands down.
Except you aren't shit at everything. Characters do tend to be fairly specialised so yes, you're not going to be Mr Amazing Hero Character but as long as you don't anything to reckless or stupid you should survive.
Although I suppose harshness of GMs can count for a lot either way, in the setting.
Event Horizon was a 100% scientifically accurate portrayal of what happens if you enter the Warp without your Gellar Field activated.
Whenever we play Deathwatch with a new guy who doesn't know the background, we always say "yeah, if the Gellar Field fails, you've seen Event Horizon right? Basically that."
Deathwatch is awesome btw
Dark Heresy is better. Space Marines are overrated.
Even if you don't like playing Space Marines and want to play an Inquisitor campaign, Deathwatch is better because it actually works for the system
Dark Heresy sucks balls because you are shit at everything and the system fails at that level, but Deathwatch is the funnest thing ever and the best 40K RPG hands down.
Except you aren't shit at everything. Characters do tend to be fairly specialised so yes, you're not going to be Mr Amazing Hero Character but as long as you don't anything to reckless or stupid you should survive.
Although I suppose harshness of GMs can count for a lot either way, in the setting.
Starting characters excel at failure in Dark Heresy
In Deathwatch, starting characters excel at being awesome
I would go so far as to say that Deathwatch is an objectively better use of the system
but whatever floats your boat
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Event Horizon was a 100% scientifically accurate portrayal of what happens if you enter the Warp without your Gellar Field activated.
Whenever we play Deathwatch with a new guy who doesn't know the background, we always say "yeah, if the Gellar Field fails, you've seen Event Horizon right? Basically that."
Deathwatch is awesome btw
Dark Heresy is better. Space Marines are overrated.
Even if you don't like playing Space Marines and want to play an Inquisitor campaign, Deathwatch is better because it actually works for the system
Dark Heresy sucks balls because you are shit at everything and the system fails at that level, but Deathwatch is the funnest thing ever and the best 40K RPG hands down.
Except you aren't shit at everything. Characters do tend to be fairly specialised so yes, you're not going to be Mr Amazing Hero Character but as long as you don't anything to reckless or stupid you should survive.
Although I suppose harshness of GMs can count for a lot either way, in the setting.
Starting characters excel at failure in Dark Heresy
In Deathwatch, starting characters excel at being awesome
I would go so far as to say that Deathwatch is an objectively better use of the system
but whatever floats your boat
Oh yes, DH characters definitely hit their stride in the 3rd rank or so. My tech-priest is all kinds of awesome now (despite nearly killing myself with a botched medicae roll), at about halfway through rank 4.
I might give Deathwatch another go but finding a good DM is the tricky part.
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Which is the movie where they fly a rocket ship to nuke the sun because it's going cold? That one had great fake science too.
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Sunshine and there was a another movie that did the same thing about 15 years before too
Yeah but Sunshine wasn't really a sci-fi movie at heart. It was space drama/horror. The sun thing was just the pretense for getting them out there in space so far from Earth and having to deal with shit without any hope of external assistance.
though the day after tomorrow still pisses me off
So when do we change the thread title
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wrongly?
like, there were married couples who thought they could get pregnant just by sleeping in the same bed, no lie
Whenever we play Deathwatch with a new guy who doesn't know the background, we always say "yeah, if the Gellar Field fails, you've seen Event Horizon right? Basically that."
Deathwatch is awesome btw
It's like the question about the length of time it takes the earth to go around the sun... is it worded like this?
or the Genetics, which possibly didn't have an answer that would allow the surveyed to say that they didn't know (not that this answer excuses people from not knowing)
There are still a lot of really dumb people though, even if surveys like this are geared more towards exaggerating their stupidity
This doesn't mesh with their population unless.
Oh god.
Clone farms.
it isn't only an aversion to science
I knew a girl who didn't know how many states America had
it's mainly that people over west reproduce like bunnies because the incentives for the one-child policy aren't that appealing to them
brb immigrating to the UK
i imagine if everybody wasn't so caught up on it, a considerable chunk would be gay
that is pretty dumb
Legitimacy of entire poll called into question!
What spring does with the cherry trees.
I might go hang out in London or Berlin, hope for a PAX Europe.
edit:
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/11/pax-organizers-surveying-about-european-expansion/
oh snap
Dark Heresy is better. Space Marines are overrated.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
Even if you don't like playing Space Marines and want to play an Inquisitor campaign, Deathwatch is better because it actually works for the system
Dark Heresy sucks balls because you are shit at everything and the system fails at that level, but Deathwatch is the funnest thing ever and the best 40K RPG hands down.
Except you aren't shit at everything. Characters do tend to be fairly specialised so yes, you're not going to be Mr Amazing Hero Character but as long as you don't anything to reckless or stupid you should survive.
Although I suppose harshness of GMs can count for a lot either way, in the setting.
Starting characters excel at failure in Dark Heresy
In Deathwatch, starting characters excel at being awesome
I would go so far as to say that Deathwatch is an objectively better use of the system
but whatever floats your boat
That depends on your frame of reference.
Oh yes, DH characters definitely hit their stride in the 3rd rank or so. My tech-priest is all kinds of awesome now (despite nearly killing myself with a botched medicae roll), at about halfway through rank 4.
I might give Deathwatch another go but finding a good DM is the tricky part.
Or something.
Edit: literally
It doesn't.
It goes around the sun once per year and .2425 days.