Science & Sagan For All!
the point of the lesson, for those who are following
also, another BAH
I understand that, but answer my question!
Why on earth would you need breaks on a perpetual motion machine when such a thing is pure impossibility in the known universe?
It will not get far, and not likely at a good enough speed to need them.
It will not get far, and not likely at a good enough speed to need them.
How can a question be the wrong answer to a picture that wasn't a question in the first place?
And why do you think I asked where the brakes were?
Where are the brakes?
I've had a lot of beers.
fixing my mood with trollishness about things I get
http://www.abelardomorell.net/photography/cameraobsc_01/cameraobsc_01.ht...
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
I love these.
That's beautiful. 
That ain't science. You bitches wanna talk entropy? Step aside for MC Hawking.
Also, download the entire Symphony of Science album for free (and legally) at the bandcamp page HERE.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Pepper, I didn't have the desire to rant about any of those, but I very much appreciated them.
That was awesome Tuff.
Fano, I'm glad my drunken ravings amused you.
I may have seen this here to begin with, but I think this thread needs it.
That is possibly my favorite of all the Epic Rap Battles.
Fano, I'm glad my drunken ravings amused you.
I may have seen this here to begin with, but I think this thread needs it.
I came in here to post this.
I love it because I showed it to my cousins and I laughed twice at twice as many jokes as they did, and it made me feel smart.
Also
NO GODDAMNED TROLL PHYSICS
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
seems like solid logic to me, guys.
so many of you know how I have this tattoo
I've seriously been considering getting darwin's original sketch, maybe with the "I think" written above it. it's such a beautiful moment in science. as for earlier talk on choosing between dawkins or sagan or whatever other scientist, I'll always choose darwin.
I'm a biological anthropology major. I fucking love hominids.
lucy <3 (aka australopithecus afarensis)
but bonobos are my favorite. love dem soooo much. I mean, really, who couldn't love our closest relatives who (other than being viciously poached in the bush meat trade) live incredibly peaceful lives?
p.s not hominids but I lub callimicos too
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
The magnet thing isn't solid logic cause it doesn't work. The magnets are stationary and their force on each other would only push the crane further from the car or pull it toward it. but if the crane isn't going anywhere the car won't go anywhere either. So really you would have to have something to propel the crane so the car would follow suit and that just defeats the purpose.
I'm not very sciency, but I'm going on logic here. If I were more sciency I would have some elaborate explanation involving the crane being attached to the car, but I'm not so I don't.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
haha, I was only joking
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
pepper said she wanted someone to rant about it, so I ranted. :-p
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Well each magnet would pull on the other one with the same force that the other one is pulling on it. So, assuming the crane is strong enough to stand that force, they wouldn't move. It's just like a book sitting on a table. Sure the table is pushing the book up, but gravity is pulling it down with exactly equal force. So it stays still.
Or something.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
Or something.
Exactly.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
WHY DON'T YOU GUYS LIKE PRIMATES AS MUCH AS I DO
FUCK
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
oh, sorry, cute monkeys, Cam.
(if we were in the same room I'd duck after that comment)
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
OTHER THAN THE CALLIMICO NONE OF THOSE ARE MONKEYS.
THEY'RE HOMINIDS
GREAT APES
NO PREHENSILE TAILS
FULL SHOULDER ROTATION
ALSKJFDLASKDLKFJASLF
(I fell for the troll purposefully. you hit the nail on the head with the worst thing you can say to a primatologist/anthropologist)
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
Cammie's reaction: 
FUCK
YEAH FUCK YOU GUYS!
"Once we shared the planet with other
human species,
competing with them and interbreeding with them. Today
we stand alone, but our rivals’ genes live on inside us—even as their remarkable stories are only
now coming to light."
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/may/25-homo-sapiens-meet-new-astounding...
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
THEY'RE HOMINIDS
GREAT APES
NO PREHENSILE TAILS
FULL SHOULDER ROTATION
ALSKJFDLASKDLKFJASLF
(I fell for the troll purposefully. you hit the nail on the head with the worst thing you can say to a primatologist/anthropologist)
I thought it, and then an image of you throwing a pillow at my head flashed through my mind, so I had to post it.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
THEY'RE HOMINIDS
GREAT APES
NO PREHENSILE TAILS
FULL SHOULDER ROTATION
ALSKJFDLASKDLKFJASLF
(I fell for the troll purposefully. you hit the nail on the head with the worst thing you can say to a primatologist/anthropologist)
My failed life goal was to be a primatologist with a focus on episodic memory and linguists. The Kanzi project along with the Koko project fascinate the holy shit out of me.
You know in all the years I've been here I've never been sigged?
I just wanna be a sexy jane goodall, man.
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
Me too. Me too. I don't think mountain gorillas would let me though. Jane was small and female, I'm big and male.
I can't do battle with a silverback.
You know in all the years I've been here I've never been sigged?
I can't get over the brilliantness of this thread..and pepper's endless archive of wonderful images.
"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan
I know. I can't believe we never had a thread like this before.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
! I know. Go us. Go science.
"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
hahahahaha!
You know what else is super cool?
The Brain.
This one was in Steve's birthday thread, but we need it here too, i think.
<3 smbc
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
I would be so pissed if my kids were being taught creationism.
I was on a geology field trip with Trevor last year, he was in 5th grade then, and the guy giving the talk about the mountains and the gorge felt the need to start it with "I know this isn't in line with what everyone believes but I am going to give the facts as science knows them, I'm not trying to say peoples beliefs are wrong..."
I was so irritated.
this is really out of left field, but I just saw a commercial for 'ky intense' which is "scientifically proven to increase stimulation for women"
SOMEONE FIND ME PROOF THIS IS REAL BECAUSE IF SO
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
I got to hold a brain once when I was a kid, 3rd grade. These people came from the university with three human brains in buckets and passed them around.
Now I have to look up whether this is true or not.
I held a brain my freshman year of college in honors psychology. shit was so cash.
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
Finished the poem. I'm going to post it here because all this science talk made me think of this. It was pretty damn difficult to translate from my head.
Here goes nothing.
The Tragedy of Us:
The tragedy of us is that we'll always be apart.
We're not two halves that make a whole.
As close as we get, as hard as we try,
we'll never be less than one plus one.
You could break us down to naught but dust,
to soil so we may nourish the trees,
and our dreams would follow suit,
as we await the rain that will hold us together.
Let us roam the states of being,
as poisonous gas to kill a man, or
liquid water to quench his thirst,
yearning all the while to be a solid.
Even in the elementary heart,
where you learn to love my quarkiness,
you are up and I am down,
And we are out of synch.
In this vast and wild universe,
our last, best hope lies in being particles,
subatomic and desperate
for the moment we find each other.
The tragedy of us is that we've discovered a way
to be something less than one plus one.
We're not two halves that make a whole,
and when at last we come together...
We annihilate.
The idea behind this is that it strikes me as a bit tragic that in so many instances, even on the smallest scale, two particles/bodies will always be two, with the exception of annihilating subatomic particles. That said, I just thought of an exception, which seems a bit fitting. When a sperm and an egg come together, they do, in a sense, become one. It's different, though, because at the same time, they become something entirely new. It's strangely poetic that the process of creating life is exempt from the idea.
I hope any of that makes sense.
Here goes nothing.
The Tragedy of Us:
The tragedy of us is that we'll always be apart.
We're not two halves that make a whole.
As close as we get, as hard as we try,
we'll never be less than one plus one.
You could break us down to naught but dust,
to soil so we may nourish the trees,
and our dreams would follow suit,
as we await the rain that will hold us together.
Let us roam the states of being,
as poisonous gas to kill a man, or
liquid water to quench his thirst,
yearning all the while to be a solid.
Even in the elementary heart,
where you learn to love my quarkiness,
you are up and I am down,
And we are out of synch.
In this vast and wild universe,
our last, best hope lies in being particles,
subatomic and desperate
for the moment we find each other.
The tragedy of us is that we've discovered a way
to be something less than one plus one.
We're not two halves that make a whole,
and when at last we come together...
We annihilate.
The idea behind this is that it strikes me as a bit tragic that in so many instances, even on the smallest scale, two particles/bodies will always be two, with the exception of annihilating subatomic particles. That said, I just thought of an exception, which seems a bit fitting. When a sperm and an egg come together, they do, in a sense, become one. It's different, though, because at the same time, they become something entirely new. It's strangely poetic that the process of creating life is exempt from the idea.
I hope any of that makes sense.
Wow.
I was reading this while listening to Ode to the Brain and it literally just made me so happy I can barely express it in mere words.
I think about this whole subject a lot. I love the part of different 'states of being'. I also think way too much about this. This made complete sense to me, like you literally plucked my thoughts and put them into a readable form.
This is really lovely.
"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan
here is a hint