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STM 09-13-2011 11:42 AM

I'm a scientist. A got a B in Chemistry Exam 3. Nate I'm still trying to find that evidence btw.

Wings of Fire 09-13-2011 12:15 PM

I'm a scientist, I'm actually engaged in research overseen by a professional with heaps of credentials in an academic institution using cutting edge brain scanning techinques.

STM 09-13-2011 12:47 PM

You're a psychologist aren't you?

Bullet Magnet 09-13-2011 03:14 PM

Brain scanning is Neurology. Unless Joe is desperately trying to bridge the gulf.

Wings of Fire 09-13-2011 03:50 PM

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Brain scanning is Neurology. Unless Joe is desperately trying to bridge the gulf.

Our university's Psychology department is very firmly on the 'Physiological' end of the discipline.

Nate 09-13-2011 05:56 PM

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http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_11.htm

'The Baghdad Battery' is actually understood to be likely some sort of electrical power device. Who knows?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad...Non-electrical

'The Baghdad Battery' is actually understood to not be a battery, despite physical appearances, as it simply wouldn't have worked. Also, no uses of electricity have been found in the archeological record; the theories about it being used for electroplating are especially unlikely as no electroplated artifacts have ever been found from that era.

Occam's Razor woudl suggest that it's much more likely to be a storage vessel than a battery.



Also, for what it's worth, I'm a scientist working as a researcher and PhD student in a respected institution, who has been published and presented at an A-rated conference. But that doesn't mean you should respect my views on archaeology. The fact that I do a minute amount of research and question the plausibility of whatever pseudoscience is presented to me should be a better indication of my reliability.

Scraby 09-14-2011 01:21 AM

isnt it a bit strange that all of these civilisations knew star systems that we dont have the idea that they exist,and also those airplane models found in the aztecs and the saquarra bird that is actually an airplane,time rottened the wood and most of its parts fell off...

Wings of Fire 09-14-2011 01:50 AM

What a convenient lack of evidence.

MeechMunchie 09-14-2011 11:47 AM

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I'm a scientist. A got a B in Chemistry Exam 3.

I guess that means I must be a Professor or something.

STM 09-14-2011 12:18 PM

Nate I found your evidence for the black hole thingy:



This is what I meant, I can't find the exact time but I expect you'll enjoy listening to the whole thing any way. It's a very amazing and insightful video.

Dixanadu 09-14-2011 12:19 PM

Cleaning beakers for scientists doesn't make you one of them, STM.

STM 09-14-2011 12:45 PM

It so does. But I burnt lithium toooo! Like a boss.

Dixanadu 09-14-2011 01:17 PM

Also, about your video.

Ye ol' Hadron Collider or w/e the fuck it is, are they still using it? There was some big shit going on a few years back about it being activated and now there's nothing about it at all.

Perhaps Switzerland is gone.

STM 09-14-2011 01:34 PM

A black hole enveloped Switzerland, it's why they have such a strong currency. It's running at half power and they are charging it up to full power for 2014. Apparently it will take a few years to find enough evidence for the Higgs Boson.

Dixanadu 09-15-2011 04:46 AM

Switzerland is a bit of a useless country, anywho.

STM 09-15-2011 07:42 AM

Historically its very important, it's also good for proper human rights.

Dixanadu 09-15-2011 08:25 AM

It's good for cheese, too.

But let's not talk about Scissorland anymore, but the massive god-damn fucking hadron colliding end-of-world doom machine.

Seriously, why the fuck would anyone in the right mind want to replicate the big bang, when people assume it's like the city-smashers dropped on Japan times a fucking billion. Then, take that percentage and multiply it by infinity.

Those Swiss are hardcore menz

STM 09-15-2011 10:44 AM

Dixy...I think you need to go and look at what they're trying to do, then remove the scaremongering factor that The Daily Mail tried to implement in your mind.

Dixanadu 09-16-2011 12:25 AM

Yes, but they painted it to be exciting.

I'm not having my excitement destroyed by understanding it's benefit.

(For the record, I read the Derry Journal).

STM 09-16-2011 12:48 AM

I no not whether the Derry Journal is as crazed as the DM.

Dixanadu 09-16-2011 02:11 AM

It wasn't as crazed as the News of the World.

OAH!!

Dixanadu 09-16-2011 04:29 AM

Fuck double posting.

New planet recently discovered.

STM 09-16-2011 10:33 AM

Lol that's old news. Yep, can you feel that? That's me reaching into your pocket and picking the thunder from it.

Dixanadu 09-16-2011 10:40 AM

The story was published on that site not so long ago, so was I meant to know it was old news?

And that's not thunder. It's my dick.

STM 09-16-2011 10:43 AM

I mean people have been finding binary systems for a hundred years.

And that explains why it's all old and shrivelled up, thunder is a lot more substantial. You're losing your touch, and damn it you keep leaving the dungeon doors open.

Nate 09-16-2011 10:00 PM

It's a binary system with a planet, which until recently many astronomers thought might be impossible. Can you feel that? That's me punching you in the vocal cords so that you lose the ability to be patronising to people less ignorant than yourself.

LDG519 09-17-2011 12:33 AM

does light pass through objects to some extent?

it clearly passes through stuff like glass. water and certain plastic but does it pass through non transparant material but just get weaker when it does so it's not noticeable? it at least passes through eylids cause when I look at a light source with my eys shut it's brighter than when I have my eys shut in dark, also I can block the light with my hand and it get's dimmer, I'm just wondering if it passes through everything but gets degraded alot more with other objects

Phylum 09-17-2011 12:45 AM

To an extent, yes. It's a very small extent.

Nate 09-17-2011 12:49 AM

It also depends what you refer to as 'light'. Electro magnetic radiation in general does pass through matter to a greater or lesser extent. X-Rays wouldn't work otherwise. The smaller the wavelength, the more likely it is to pass between the atoms in the material without hitting them and being absorbed or bounced back.

STM 09-17-2011 02:56 AM

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It's a binary system with a planet, which until recently many astronomers thought might be impossible. Can you feel that? That's me punching you in the vocal cords so that you lose the ability to be patronising to people less ignorant than yourself.

Ouch, you angry person Nate!

Nate 09-17-2011 06:19 AM

Not angry. Just tired of you being patronising to people who know what they're talking about.

Dixanadu 09-17-2011 07:48 AM

For all he knew, it might have been old news and that site only recently discovered it.

But then you said it's the first binary system with a planet, then STM was a zombie.

moxco 09-17-2011 07:54 AM

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It also depends what you refer to as 'light'. Electro magnetic radiation in general does pass through matter to a greater or lesser extent. X-Rays wouldn't work otherwise. The smaller the wavelength, the more likely it is to pass between the atoms in the material without hitting them and being absorbed or bounced back.

Are you sure that's how it works, by that logic wouldn't that mean any material that isn't soundproof is somewhat translucent? That would also mean that radio waves (that can be metres long)can't travel through, well anything.

Of course I'm probably just saying something stupid.

STM 09-17-2011 08:10 AM

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Not angry. Just tired of you being patronising to people who know what they're talking about.

It's time someone taught you the meaning of a joke Nate. I mean, you can't physically steal someone's thunder, nor can you put thunder in someone's pocket. Furthermore, it is a very rare occasion that I am patronising because I can ill afford to be. In all fairness I could say the same to you I'm sure.

Dixanadu 09-17-2011 08:41 AM

STM also can't physically touch my penis.

To do so would cause him to explode in a hail of confetti and glitter.

STM 09-17-2011 10:49 AM

It would just be that good. And that's scientific fact.

Manco 09-17-2011 01:34 PM

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it is a very rare occasion that I am patronising

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It's time someone taught you the meaning of a joke Nate.

lol

STM 09-17-2011 03:23 PM

That's not patronising, it's just being sarcasm.

Nate 09-17-2011 05:18 PM

They're not mutually exclusive, you know.

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It's time someone taught you the meaning of a joke Nate. I mean, you can't physically steal someone's thunder, nor can you put thunder in someone's pocket.

The whole 'stealing thunder' thing isn't what made your comment patronising. It was that you attempted to correct someone else whilst mocking them. Even if you had had your facts straight it would have been patronising, but the fact that you were full of shit just made it worse.


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Are you sure that's how it works, by that logic wouldn't that mean any material that isn't soundproof is somewhat translucent? That would also mean that radio waves (that can be metres long)can't travel through, well anything.

As for the first point, I don't know why you mentioned sound; they operate on very different principles. As for light, most materials that we come in contact on a daily basis are dense enough to block all visible light (by which I'm refering to the photons that have wavelengths in a certain spectrum) but would be transparent to gamma rays and x-rays, to a certain depth. I'm working from memories that are a decade old, so excuse a little fuzziness on the details, but I think it has to do with more than just the density though. It also depends on what the material is and what its crystalline structure is.

As for radio waves, they actually do get blocked quite easily. The plus side of long wavelengths is that they bounce easily and spread out quickly (like the light beam from a torch that widens as it is emitted), so if there's a narrow gap for them to enter a building (say, through a window), they'll quickly spread out to fill the whole room.

Bullet Magnet 09-17-2011 05:40 PM

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they'll quickly spread out to fill the whole room.

Understatement.