This is something that should be included every high school biology curriculum.
Well, not the experiment itself, just the results. But if some how you could recreate the experiment in a single year (which is doubtful) that would be amazing.
this was super interesting, but what was even more interesting was the attempt by the fool who runs Conservapedia to 'obtain the data from the experiment' and the subsequent written smackdown that ensued. It's long as hell, but it's pretty entertaining to read:
Some people intentionally wallow in their confirmation bias. They are a-scared of having their preconceived notions challenged.
The Lenski thing is the best. Scientist taking the time to rationally and confidently explain to an annoying jerk-face how science works. And he was funny about it too. Everyone should have to read the Lenski letters in 6th grade. It really hits home to me because in college I actually participated in the analysis stages of a very similar long term evolution experiment (about to be published YEARS later, whoo), so Schlafly sounds particularly dumb to me because I've seen the things he's saying don't exist with my own eyes.
Some people intentionally wallow in their confirmation bias. They are a-scared of having their preconceived notions challenged.
The Lenski thing is the best. Scientist taking the time to rationally and confidently explain to an annoying jerk-face how science works. And he was funny about it too. Everyone should have to read the Lenski letters in 6th grade. It really hits home to me because in college I actually participated in the analysis stages of a very similar long term evolution experiment (about to be published YEARS later, whoo), so Schlafly sounds particularly dumb to me because I've seen the things he's saying don't exist with my own eyes.
Speaking of seeing things with my own eyes: just while goofing off a little while back I got some plain ol' shitty binoculars and looked up at Jupiter-- not really expecting to see anything.
I saw the Gallilean moons!! Holy fuck! I didn't think it was possible without a telescope; but just with a cheap pair of binoculars I could clearly see what I assume to be Calista, Ganymede, Io and Europa in a perfect line around the planet. Blew my fucking mind.
Ever since I've been wanting to get my hands on a telescope to see more shit. More recently, I also saw the Great Orion Nebula with my binoculars and the Andromeda Galaxy. Again, with cheap shit any any fool can buy at Walmart.
Maybe...
Our Earth isn't flat? The Moon landings were... *gasp* real!?!
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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Couple of pages late, but Alien was the very first movie I was taken to as a newborn baby.
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Do you think your mother was trying to tell you something about how she felt about the birth process?
Again, it's the major media networks picking this shit up precisely because it pisses people off. The teahadists will be pissed off to discover that the TLC has that show and the the rest of the rational world will be pissed that an organization like the FFA is even allowed to have airtime on major networks. Win-win for NBC/ABC/CBS/Fox. More ratings.
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"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
what exactly is the best time of day to be so angry
Mid day because then you can do something about it like go out for a walk or occupy your mind. Either that or you are at work/class which will distract you from your rage.
The trick with feelings like rage and depression is not to let your mind focus on them, and instead do something else to occupy your attention. That's why being depressed at two in the morning is the worst, there's nothing to do except think about it.
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Speaking of seeing things with my own eyes: just while goofing off a little while back I got some plain ol' shitty binoculars and looked up at Jupiter-- not really expecting to see anything.
I saw the Gallilean moons!! Holy fuck! I didn't think it was possible without a telescope; but just with a cheap pair of binoculars I could clearly see what I assume to be Calista, Ganymede, Io and Europa in a perfect line around the planet. Blew my fucking mind.
Ever since I've been wanting to get my hands on a telescope to see more shit. More recently, I also saw the Great Orion Nebula with my binoculars and the Andromeda Galaxy. Again, with cheap shit any any fool can buy at Walmart.
Maybe...
Our Earth isn't flat? The Moon landings were... *gasp* real!?!
Yeah that's why the Gallilean moons are the Gallilean moons. Given the right conditions you can see them with the naked eye.
This post also reminded me a post I made a while back
At AusPAX, Jupiter was really high and prominent, and I kept pointing it out to anyone who would listen
Then Wimble and I were walking through the town in Byron and we spotted this cool old dude who had a telescope set up on a tripod pointed right at it.
He was just talking to people as they walked past and letting them look through the scope. You could clearly see Jupiter and its three largest moons, Europa, Io and Ganymede.
It was just such a cool thing that a dude was excited enough to set up his shit and explain it to anyone who was interested. Probably hundreds of people saw Jupiter through a telescope for the first time that night.
Speaking of seeing things with my own eyes: just while goofing off a little while back I got some plain ol' shitty binoculars and looked up at Jupiter-- not really expecting to see anything.
I saw the Gallilean moons!! Holy fuck! I didn't think it was possible without a telescope; but just with a cheap pair of binoculars I could clearly see what I assume to be Calista, Ganymede, Io and Europa in a perfect line around the planet. Blew my fucking mind.
Ever since I've been wanting to get my hands on a telescope to see more shit. More recently, I also saw the Great Orion Nebula with my binoculars and the Andromeda Galaxy. Again, with cheap shit any any fool can buy at Walmart.
Maybe...
Our Earth isn't flat? The Moon landings were... *gasp* real!?!
Yeah that's why the Gallilean moons are the Gallilean moons. Given the right conditions you can see them with the naked eye.
This post also reminded me a post I made a while back
At AusPAX, Jupiter was really high and prominent, and I kept pointing it out to anyone who would listen
Then Wimble and I were walking through the town in Byron and we spotted this cool old dude who had a telescope set up on a tripod pointed right at it.
He was just talking to people as they walked past and letting them look through the scope. You could clearly see Jupiter and its three largest moons, Europa, Io and Ganymede.
It was just such a cool thing that a dude was excited enough to set up his shit and explain it to anyone who was interested. Probably hundreds of people saw Jupiter through a telescope for the first time that night.
That makes me so happy.
I love nerding out on astronomy because it's one of the few nerd things that normal people actually enjoy learning about.
I taught a couple of years at the UNT observatory and planetarium, and I loved seeing the wonder in the eyes of these dumb sorority sisters and frat boys as they would peer through 14" telescopes at Jupiter, Andromeda or our moon. (Hell, even letting them look through the scopes at the lightbulbs of nearby radio towers got some of them smiling). It brought back an almost childlike interest in science to people who had already decided that science is too hard or just for nerds.
Very few people were completely disinterested during those labs. I never understood those people.
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so silly
really I don't have much use for either rationalwiki or conservapedia though
why would I want another wikipedia with less information and more bias?
The Lenski thing is the best. Scientist taking the time to rationally and confidently explain to an annoying jerk-face how science works. And he was funny about it too. Everyone should have to read the Lenski letters in 6th grade. It really hits home to me because in college I actually participated in the analysis stages of a very similar long term evolution experiment (about to be published YEARS later, whoo), so Schlafly sounds particularly dumb to me because I've seen the things he's saying don't exist with my own eyes.
Speaking of seeing things with my own eyes: just while goofing off a little while back I got some plain ol' shitty binoculars and looked up at Jupiter-- not really expecting to see anything.
I saw the Gallilean moons!! Holy fuck! I didn't think it was possible without a telescope; but just with a cheap pair of binoculars I could clearly see what I assume to be Calista, Ganymede, Io and Europa in a perfect line around the planet. Blew my fucking mind.
Ever since I've been wanting to get my hands on a telescope to see more shit. More recently, I also saw the Great Orion Nebula with my binoculars and the Andromeda Galaxy. Again, with cheap shit any any fool can buy at Walmart.
Maybe...
Muslim family reality show, so not stereotypical, it's offensive.
tea time
When you're in a deep sleep and you can work out your issues by hitting things in dreams
Mid day because then you can do something about it like go out for a walk or occupy your mind. Either that or you are at work/class which will distract you from your rage.
The trick with feelings like rage and depression is not to let your mind focus on them, and instead do something else to occupy your attention. That's why being depressed at two in the morning is the worst, there's nothing to do except think about it.
right before poop time
I just had lunch
so like two hours from now
2 am is the best time for drugs
pronounced Teh-ah-time-eh
Fo-ah supper, I-er-ah would like a party PLATTAH
That's Mr Teh-ah-time-eh to you.
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Being in a grumpy depressive mood, and knowing it's because you've been a pillock and forgotten your zoloft for a few days
and that knowledge only making the bad mood worse
:^:
I think there's something in the air down in Florida
that Terry Jones guy's down there too
And crwth
also Sheri.
What is your av this time?
let us tell you about Anti's avatar
its a bel drawing of me actually
Yeah that's why the Gallilean moons are the Gallilean moons. Given the right conditions you can see them with the naked eye.
This post also reminded me a post I made a while back
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I love nerding out on astronomy because it's one of the few nerd things that normal people actually enjoy learning about.
I taught a couple of years at the UNT observatory and planetarium, and I loved seeing the wonder in the eyes of these dumb sorority sisters and frat boys as they would peer through 14" telescopes at Jupiter, Andromeda or our moon. (Hell, even letting them look through the scopes at the lightbulbs of nearby radio towers got some of them smiling). It brought back an almost childlike interest in science to people who had already decided that science is too hard or just for nerds.
Very few people were completely disinterested during those labs. I never understood those people.
I always see this super bright star in the sky that I've been assuming is Venus, but I don't really know. I'm pretty sure its a planet though.
If you are looking at a bright object high in the night sky more than an hour or so away from sunset/sunrise, then it's probably Jupiter.
definitely sounds like its Jupiter that I'm seeing.
e - Its been pretty consistent. Like for over a year I've been seeing it, so probably not a comet or anything transient like that.