Science Thread

zitothebrave said:
Wut?
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It was a joke obviously.

But Vancouver DID struggle to keep snow on the tracks, because it wasn't cold enough or freezing.

I think Vancouver used a ton of artificial snow, and I read that Sochi is having the same problem.

Soon every Winter Olympics will have to be held in Wisconsin.
 
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Met Bill after the debate
 
[video=youtube;6mAyBwhiAJ8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6mAyBwhiAJ8#t=782[/video]
 
The downside of this debate is, the creationists will only say "their beliefs were reinforced and stronger after this debate" because they automatically feel like Nye is on the attack against christianity. Doesn't matter that creationism can be disproved, they're going to go with their "intiution" and never question creationism.

The reality is, I know Nye wanted to rip religion, but he had to be respectful to at least look credible.

That's the problem, if you are a loudmouth preaching the truth, nobody wants to take you serious. If you're polite while doing it, you're "respected" but people don't still take you serious.

Granted Nye shouldn't have been the guy to be debating ham. If a real career scientist was on there, I think they would've ripped Ham into shreds.
 
KeithLockhart said:
It was a joke obviously.

But Vancouver DID struggle to keep snow on the tracks, because it wasn't cold enough or freezing.

I think Vancouver used a ton of artificial snow, and I read that Sochi is having the same problem.

Soon every Winter Olympics will have to be held in Wisconsin.
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Vancouver had issues because it's coastal. Its one of the more temperate cities in Canada.
 
Gary82 said:
No one would have watched or cared.
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Not so much.

I think of Richard Dawkins (who's done hundreds of these), or even Neil Degrasse Tyson were on there people would've watched.

Neil is a nice guy though, and usually doesn't do debates like this.
 
It's funny how people say others, like scientists, are out to "disprove" and attack religion, when it really was never about that. It was about discovery, exploration, and learning. It just so happens to disprove their precious ingrained beliefs, and that upsets them.
 
Ham ripped himself to shreds well enough. Nye did a good job of letting him do it.
 
I feel bad a few years ago I was scrolling through the tv guide and saw "DeGrasse" and thought it was his show... never been more wrong. :Sad:
 
KeithLockhart said:
I feel bad a few years ago I was scrolling through the tv guide and saw "DeGrasse" and thought it was his show... never been more wrong. :Sad:
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That's like hearing that Curiosity landed on Mars and thinking Bruno was lucky to have survived.
 
Here's some science for you. Did you know in an office setting, you can fundamentally fart without anyone knowing it by farting into the foam of your chair while slowly raising your buttocks up until you're done? What it does is cause a vortex of negative pressure to inherently suck your gas into the foam and keep it held in there loosely. At that point you can no longer sit on said chair because the inertia of your buttocks compressing the foam back down will in turn cause a positive pressure to kinetically release the gas you had meant to trap in the first place to absolute zero. Which will cause a doppler effect in the office for you physics hounds. My scientific recommendation would be to make a linear walk to the water cooler and give your chair time to slowly dissipate it's particles over time.

That is, if time even exists. But we'll get into that in our next lesson.
 
ESP47 said:
Here's some science for you. Did you know in an office setting, you can fundamentally fart without anyone knowing it by farting into the foam of your chair while slowly raising your buttocks up until you're done? What it does is cause a vortex of negative pressure to inherently suck your gas into the foam and keep it held in there loosely. At that point you can no longer sit on said chair because the inertia of your buttocks compressing the foam back down will in turn cause a positive pressure to kinetically release the gas you had meant to trap in the first place to absolute zero. Which will cause a doppler effect in the office for you physics hounds. My scientific recommendation would be to make a linear walk to the water cooler and give your chair time to slowly dissipate it's particles over time.

That is, if time even exists. But we'll get into that in our next lesson.
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To solve this problem, I'm usually the guy that takes a **** in the employee restroom and doesn't flush.
 
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Earth, as seen from Mars.

This photograph was taken by the Curiosity rover from the surface of Mars. This is literally a photograph of our planet taken by a nuclear powered remote control car, on the surface of another planet.

Image via: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU
 
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