Because light reflects off 3*(10^19)kg of assorted shit orbiting around Saturn and those rings are REALLY FUCKING BIG.

Saturns rings consist out of billions of fragments from a crushed moon,some as small as ice cubes,some as large as houses,and some are just f*king BIG.

And yet none can quite match the size of STM’s ego.

...that seemed somewhat uncalled for.

I agonised over whose name to put there. In the end it was an arbitrary choice.

What I’m saying is that everyone has a huge ego.

I don't have a huge ego. That's how modest and better person I am.

See, we were all wrong!

Could've been a comet trail or summat.

To demonstrate 'Doubtfire's "Lots of little shiny things look like one big shiny thing" Principle', or DLolstllabstP:

http://oldstersview.files.wordpress....s-at-night.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/nUKdN.jpg

Also this

Pweety. What are all the lights east of Scotland, though? Oil rigs?

Probably heathen bonfires or some shit.

LOL, seems everybody turned off the lights in the Kingdom of boredom ;P , i'm going back to watch my hairs grow now....

So, it's Shaman's doing?

That would explain why he hasn't visited for some time.

Is this about philosophy still?

Was it ever?

I honestly don't know.

Can a thread created for philosophical discussion still be considered a "philosophy thread" if nobody asks any searching questions?

Well, it's a philosophy thread now.

Not even then, if any of them get answered.

What am I still doing here?

Waiting for an answer to your question. Duh.

I gotta seriously stop answering my own questions

Mary is a brilliant scientist who is, for whatever reason, forced to investigate the world from a black and white room via a black and white television monitor. She specializes in the neurophysiology of vision and acquires, let us suppose, all the physical information there is to obtain about what goes on when we see ripe tomatoes, or the sky, and use terms like ‘red’, ‘blue’, and so on.

She discovers, for example, just which wavelength combinations from the sky stimulate the retina, and exactly how this produces via the central nervous system the contraction of the vocal cords and expulsion of air from the lungs that results in the uttering of the sentence ‘The sky is blue’. What will happen when Mary is released from her black and white room or is given a color television monitor? Will she learn anything or not?

Sorry but I left Lockean metaphysics behind me a year ago and never looked back.

Qualia is Lockean? I though it was more modern than that.

That Mary looks like an easy, avaliable girl, what's her phone number?

Unfortunately I can't remember precisely, but that thought experiment originates from a letter sent to John Locke while he was writing An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. It was explored far more thoroughly by Russel and others during the turn of the twentieth century, but the base model comes from the distinction between primary and secondary qualities of objects.

You know that won't mean anything to most of us, right?

Update:

WHOOOSH

Don't worry BM, I know what he was talking about...for the most part ;)

Well I don't!

SHOE IS ON THE OTHER FOOT NOW BULLET MAGNET :tard:

All those times you, Max and Nate (and WoF sometimes) have talked about maths or crazy science mumbo jumbo and I had no idea what the christ you are talking about.

How does it feel?

Secure in the knowledge that his specialisations were well chosen, I suspect.

Most probably. :monster:

Science is fun, let's have some troll science.
This is the science thread now, right?

BM doesn't know something? I give him another 24 hours before he physically extracts Laser's knowledge through his laptop/PC, once again making him the most intelligent being in the Universe.

What knowledge does best is illuminate vast vistas of mystery that you had no idea existed. That's why university graduates feel like they know hardly anything about anything, while their school-leaver selves thought themselves pretty broadly educated.

I only seem like I know a lot because I usually talk about things I know about, and I hope that you guys learn from it. I just wish the balance tipped the other way more often, because I want to learn too.

BM just tried to find the most polite way to call all of us "know nothing retards".

Can I ramble on about bees? I haven't done that for months. You'd all learn so much!