Let me get this right…I’m a white (well ,pass for white) straight male, living in one of the richest, fattest countries in the world. At a point in history with massive technological luxuries but before (fill in your flavor of Armageddon…nanites…nuclear war…whatever) I’ve never broken a bone larger than a pinky nor had a close friend or relative die.
How fucking unlikely is that? Not to mention my baseball team has won the World Series three times in the last ten years after 86 years?? Please. As I said in another thread…either I’m God, or this is some kind of simulation.
I used to live next to a village in Ohio that also has a coal fire. It’s been burning for over 100 years.
Word was (and I have no idea if this is true, but I saw it repeated on Wikipedia) that it boiled the water while it was still in the ground, so people could draw up boiling water from a well.
A quarterback out of a Division I-AA team is undrafted. He later gets picked up as a backup by a NFL team, who hasn’t had a winning season in 10 years. Their starting QB goes down to injury, he steps in and has a record-breaking season. The team rises out of nowhere and wins the Super Bowl!
Then several years later, his skills apparently decline. After two teams no longer want him, a historical doormat picks him up (1 winning season in 25 years) as a backup. He then leads that team to the Super Bowl!
Did I mention he started his pro football career in the Arena Football League?
Magellan: Hey, guys! We’re back! Made it all the way around the world without any problems – oh…except that I got killed on this island in the middle of the ocean.
Welcome committee recruit from nowhere: Umm…excuse me, sir but if you’re standing here, that’s a bit hard to believe.
Magellan’s second-Mate: Really? Which part? :dubious:
Plot hole? I should have thought it was possible for anyone to conclude that:
Killing a foetus is a moral evil, and
If something is a moral evil then it is wrong for anyone to do it.
I don’t say that this is the last word on the argument and proves that being pro-choice* is wrong, but I suggest it’s a viewpoint available to anyone regardless of gender - whereas you seem to imply that, for women at least, the possibility of self-interest should trump ethics.
*Choice being narrowly defined here - for instance, no-one says “If you think it is wrong to burn homosexuals then don’t burn them; let me choose for myself” but very properly agrees that no-one, even if for some reason they think it acceptable to burn homosexuals, should be allowed to do so.
Some random Japanese National named Tsutomu Yamaguchi just happened to be in Hiroshima on business when the very first atomic bomb ever used in war was exploded, survived, and then headed back home to Nagasaki only to survive the next atomic detonation? Give me a break.
Here is a plot hole, or just hole in reality (at least if you take the laws of the physical universe as we know it to be all there is)
Infinity is a number we cannot reach in terms of linear time. An infinite amount of time cannot have therefore already past us. If an infinite time cannot have past, then time had a beginning.
If time had a beginning, matter must have had a beginning because how is there going to be matter outside of time (at least within the physical laws of the universe as we “know” it).
In other words, time and matter had a beginning. That is inconsistent with the idea that matter cannot be created or destroyed. Where did all the matter come from? Also how did this realm of time and matter come about… what/who is able to create time?
So the “plot hole” in reality is mostly a plot hole in that physics at we know them aren’t the full story.
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Perhaps you are being ironical, but what is actually stopping them is their non-existence. (“All over the United States” anyway: there may, possibly, be a handful, somewhere.)
We haven’t found a cure for cancer, but we have plenty of drugs for erectile dysfunction and procedures to get rid of wrinkles.
UFOs and claims of alien abductions and probings
That all cars aren’t standardly equipped with anti-drunk driving technology. It doesn’t seem like it would be that hard. Something like a sensor that detects alcohol breath from the front seat and the car absolutely WON’T start. This wouldn’t take care of driving high or drugged, but it would save a lot of lives and I’m sure some geek in a lab could come up with a solution for the other.
I’m very proud to have inspired this thread, which I think has been more successful than any thread I’ve actually started.
Most of the actual “plot holes” in reality are too boring to describe. “Why didn’t they just do X?” Because they didn’t think of it. But as for things in reality that seem ridiculously implausible…
I’m definitely not a fan of Miley Cyrus, but I’m not surprised she’s popular. But what I still have trouble believing even though I know it happened was the VMA “twerking” scandal. I’m still not totally convinced that people weren’t just pretending to be shocked, shocked that a young woman was dancing suggestively on MTV. That’s basically what MTV is, at least when it’s not airing reality shows about pregnant teenagers. You (the general “you”) don’t have to like it, but unless you’ve been in a coma for the past few decades or only just recently left the Amish community where you grew up then there’s no excuse for being surprised by it.
Here is another one along those lines. The domestication of horses was essential to human development and lasted until less than 100 years ago. People learned to domesticate horses and use them as both means of transportation and draft animals several thousand years. Do you know what it takes to ride a horse well? It takes a saddle, a bit and stirrups.
Everyone mastered the saddle and bit part early on but nobody invented stirrups until thousands of years after the initial domestication. It is even worse than that. Even the ancient Romans did not think that you just might want to put footholds on the side of the saddle to give you better stability and control even though the concept is dead simple. Asians adopted stirrups first even though there is no explanation why it took so long but it even way more shocking to realize that they didn’t show up in Europe until 500 AD and didn’t become widespread until well after that.
Here is another one for you. Archaeologists still don’t know what to make of this although it is a proven site. Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is an extremely elaborate temple complex in modern day Turkey that is more than twice the age of the Pyramids in Egypt. It is pre-Ice Age and was supposedly built buy stone age people even though it obviously wasn’t in technological terms. The artwork is incredible and depicts animals that lived in the region tens of thousands of years ago but don’t anymore. One of the most puzzling things is that it appears to have been intentionally buried very carefully by the same people that built it. Absolutely no one knows where that civilization came from and it has shaken up both the anthropological and archaeological world but it is there and real.
A similar thing is true with the Great Sphinx in Egypt. Most people think it was built around the same time as the Pyramids but that is not true. It is several thousand years older and nobody knows who built it or why. The cultures that built the Sphinx are more remote to Egyptians that built the Pyramids than any existing culture is to us.
I am no expert on that twerking “scandal,” but I bet it was a bigger deal than it should have been because the protagonist had been a child actor in recent memory. Even if it’s just on a subliminal level, that tends to weird some people out.
Bush - A comedian as president, a totally comical dunce that if you saw it in a movie you would thing were too obviously dumb to be real as a Gardner, despite that my opinion of him was lower than low, when David Letterman said straight faced his Segway crash was caused by him not turning it on I still found it hard to believe, As did Paul, he had to say it several times to be clear it wasn’t a joke, real disbelief. Bushism are as funny (and sad) to read as any comedy material you will find.
So how can the next president be even more unlikely?
Barak Hussein Obama
Have everyone mad at (well, it was an inside job) Osama Bin Laden and the other bad guy, Saddam Hussein. And a connection to very unpopular religion (Muslim), And a race that has recently and even currently faced discrimination African (Black) but not even fully American (Kenyan father) even IF he was, Born in the US which is debatable.
So, who will be the democratic candidate? The wife of one of the US’s most successful presidents ever, the most financially positive president ever just after the last dunce tanked everything? Oh, sure he cheated not her, but that should have worked in her favour. Closest thing to a replay. Nope.
Also there were two women in England who both started essentially identical businesses with same or almost same name, the business was something sexy or sleazy but I forget the details.
I also think that scientists have accepted a totally impossible theory for 109 year that is obviously flawed is pretty astounding, despite being true (in my light speed threads).
