Black holes might be intelligent

[james]

I had to stop when he said 'engender alphabetic rapture' out loud

[Necrometer]

yeah that was a personal favorite

performance scientist demonstrates that, invariably, comprehension is inversely correlated with the induction of awe

[Blair]

when you get into one of those interminable and irksome back and forths with someone dead set on denying science or whatever....

My current policy "I'm not even going to talk about this with you."

Applies to tinfoil hat crap, internet video science magic, and crazy Tesla horseshit.

WILL NOT DISCUSS - ADBLOCK ON

[Blair]

There's too many people who have a heavy personal investment in the shit.... it's depressing. And it comes down to me A) Not wanting to call people I know fucking morons to their faces & B) Being dissapointed in people I know for the bullshit they uncritically swallow.

Plus it's basically blood libels bigotry in it's modern incarnation.

"Those evil others have had flying saucers since Roswell AND also faked the moon landing"

[Blair]

I was discussing this particular issue with a buddy while grabbing some beer and the fucking beer store clerk has to interject about his belief in Tesla magic.
<- real life version

Dude... you work in a skid row beer store.... take a good hard look at where your intellectual rigour has got you...

[Blair]

Physics. And the thing is it seems like a terrifying proportion of people want to talk to me about internet video science magic when they find that out, they really really want to talk to me about that.

I'm begging them to stop, they keep talking.

One time I had to say "You talking to me about this is the equivalent of me talking to my holocaust survivor neighbour about how awesome some NSBM is."

Please... god.... NO!

The senior I help out? Of course she has to be a certified energy healer. At least she get's a pass because she's senile and "I'm on the job." Although I had to lie and say I was to busy this summer to help her with the internet side of her energy healing racket.

[Blair]

That would be my ultimate superhero; some powerlifter that breaks peoples jaws for talking about that horseshit. "SHUT YOUR IGNORANCE HOLE!"

[soiled depends]

"You will now contemplate the physics of drinking your food out of a straw for the next 6 weeks!"

[Necrometer]

[riley-o]

i feel like there aren't many message boards out there that could turn a thread about the majesty and wonder contained in the universe so easily into one about crackin the jaws of bitch-made suckers who don't know what time it is

[fallbacktostone]

[riley-o]

Shut the fuck up, Eddie.

i'm with this statement with every fibre of my being lately

[fallbacktostone]

[fallbacktostone]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/secrets-sun.html

this shit is such critical fucking viewing i can't even put the right words together to meet the requirements it necessitates. i watched this the other night on my dvr in the middle of the fucking night and there's footage in it that will make you straight up shed a tear and want to leave your entire life behind..

[Necrometer]

exemplary thread stewardship

that guy's demonstration with the pipe organ was a bit underwhelming

[Necrometer]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/secrets-sun.html

this shit is such critical fucking viewing i can't even put the right words together to meet the requirements it necessitates. i watched this the other night on my dvr in the middle of the fucking night and there's footage in it that will make you straight up shed a tear and want to leave your entire life behind..

drink every time a shitty analogy is used to relate the sun to some everyday thing (pond, lava-lamp, organ, slinky, bombs)

[fallbacktostone]

keep talking shit

[Necrometer]

don't be insecure man I already paid the highest compliment


(...campfire...)

[fallbacktostone]

yeah where you told me i'm good at bumping? i noticed

i wasn't crying over the fucking anaologies!

[Necrometer]

if your link didn't absolutely rock I wouldn't have de-vern'd

it's a good thread and you've kept it on track with a singular focus; I was especially impressed with how you properly dismantled all those videos from that excitable shithead and kept the primary project barreling forward

I can't believe you're begging for compliments like a girlfriend

yes these responses make your thighs look weird

[fallbacktostone]

[fallbacktostone]

in between semesters im revisiting thermodynamics because i wish i'd been an astrophysicist

[fallbacktostone]

[Necrometer]

http://youtu.be/d0NNnSQJ0dk?t=58s

[Friendly Goatus]

Definitely watch this in HD