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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
 Posted - 03/06/2009 : 08:04:56
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The (very funny) webcomic xkcd just did a strip on correlation/causation.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
354 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2009 : 10:27:35 [Permalink]
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| A funny statistics cartoon - who'da thunk? I'd never heard of this site before - looks good! |
I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone* -Dick Cheney
*some restrictions may apply |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2009 : 15:34:05 [Permalink]
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Here's another one, more subtle correlation-causation. |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2009 : 19:30:47 [Permalink]
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I read that cartoon, then laughed. I wonder if it's funny...
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2009 : 05:27:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
I read that cartoon, then laughed. I wonder if it's funny...
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Which one of them? I laughed at both, but I laughed more at my link.
Slapstick isn't that much my cup of tea, but sometimes it's really funny.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder. |
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xkcd’s comic
