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HalfMooner
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 Posted - 03/07/2009 : 14:13:50
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From Daisy Owl, a discussion of the Accidental Theory of Science:
(Hat tip to Cracked.com.)
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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. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 03/08/2009 12:32:45
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On fire for Christ
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Norway
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 02:13:44 [Permalink]
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 05:22:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by On fire for Christ
I don't get it.
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There's so many myths we believe in, floating around preventing us from acting rationally.
Just like a ruptured appendix. You really don't need to see a doctor, just pray to Jesus to heal you, and if you really believe in your heart, you'll be healed.
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 07:47:01 [Permalink]
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| Wow you sure got a lot out of that strip...for me it's just about the folly of repeating what you hear as fact, which we are all guilty of. Really its not a very funny comic. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Simon
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 09:34:17 [Permalink]
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| There are lot of cute little story about how this or that discovery was made accidentally. Most of these stories are false... |
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.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 11:16:50 [Permalink]
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Its about, as others have said, common beliefs about how some things were discovered. The Einstein reference at the end is, I think, intended to illustrate the absurdity of it all. I mean, think about it for a sec, and it is actually rather hilarius. Einstien in a dance competition? Just visualize that for a minute.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 11:43:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by On fire for Christ
I don't get it.
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Part of the humor doesn't depend upon a formal gag so much, as the whole cartoon laying down seeds to set up a comically absurd mental image, harvested in the final comment: "Einstein never lost a dance competition."
This may help. Picture Albert in "Saturday Night Fever":
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 03/09/2009 : 12:13:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Al had Tiny Head Syndrome, too? Poor guy.
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Hey, that was just a quickie. As I usually do when scaling replacement heads, I compared the distances between the eyes and the upper lip. But I didn't take Einstein's droopy mustache into account, nor Travolta's already tiny noggin.
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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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Invoking the Authority of Einstein on Lab Safety
