I gave it a Spock-like :dubious: based not on that but that I’d understood Vulcan’s sun to be red. Not enough UV for sunburn. Of course this assumes that UV resistance is the only reason for black skin, and makes no allowance for the many colours of Barsoomians, but at the time I thought it was illogical and they were giving us a Black Vulcan just because.
And “effect” can be a verb, meaning “to cause to come into being” or “to bring about; to accomplish.”
“It’s just a theory.”
Can we get some context for that?
I agree that that’s an annoying statement in reference to, say, evolution, but not if I’m admitting that the supposition I just offered is as of yet unproven.
“Just because” of what? Why shouldn’t Vulcans come in more than one skin tone?
But evolution IS a theory. The speaker may not know what a theory is in scientific terms (gravity is “just a theory” in terms of its scientific explanation, but only the intelligent falling people doubt it exists) but the statement is not actually false.
The statement isn’t false.
The implicit assumptions behind the statement are factually incorrect in every way. They are so monstrously wrong that there are no others errors I know that convey so much ignorance in so little space.
What makes the statement problematic is the word “just,” I think. That and the fact that it’s always uttered by idiots.
What are you proposing as the mechanism?
But virtually nobody ever uses that sense. At least, I’ve never heard it.
These people think they’re saying is sufficiently dismissive- like saying “It’s just a hypothesis” would be.
I assume you meant reasons why people DO believe autism is caused by vaccines…since the scientific evidence confirms the opposite.
Don’t people wonder about all those unobserved children who had the MMR vaccine and didn’t turn out to be autistic?
We have done this one before. A car battery is capable of delivering hundreds upon hundreds of amps all at one in an instant. Yet you can grab the positive pole in one hand and the negative pole in your other hand. Not only will you not die, you won’t feel a thing. As the current would have to flow directly across your chest to get from one hand to the other, if what you are saying is correct, you would expect … something. In reality, nothing happens. This is due to the resistance of your body (skin mainly I believe) being high enough that the voltage drop across the resistance renders a zero or near zero current flow.
I think he’s suggesting that the price of a product is determined by the amount people are willing to pay, not by how much it costs to produce.
I suppose what he’s saying is inaccurate in a wider sense- lots of companies that manufacturers of consumer products sell high-end items that they actually sell at a loss in order to enhance the overall image (automakers, for example). Still, in general terms, it’s silly to suggest that manufacturing cost has no bearing on price.
Meh. Be a bit odd if melanin response evolved independently on different planets.
While there are general variations in color in just about every species on earth, there isn’t as wide a range as seen in humans for the most part.
My numerous empirical studies show that every parent that believes this will often make exclamations about the correlation between dietary sugar and misbehaving children when koolaid or M&Ms are involved, but never when apple juice or an orange are involved.
Despite the fact that all four are loaded with sugar.
I’ve heard it many times, but then again my mother is a psychologist.
It’s not common in ordinary conversation, but “affect” is the clinical term used to describe emotional expression. Someone suffering from depression, for instance, might be described as displaying a lack of affect, or more properly blunt or flat affect.
I note that Vulcans, like Terrans, Klingons, Cardassians, Bajorans, Betazeds, Andorians, Tellarites, Jem-hadr, Vorta, whatever the hell Kes was, and whatever the hell Neelix was, have four fingers plus a thumb on each hand. Not four fingers and two thumbs, or six fingers and one thumb, or three finges and one thumb, etc. Why is that any less improbable?
I’ll grant you that affect exists as a verb in a technical setting, but the post I quoted did not use it in that sense. Affect as a noun in general usage is obsolete.
It’s quite possible that there’s a good anatomical explanation why 4/1 is a somehow optimal arrangement of digits in an intelligent life form. However, it’s probably just more likely that there are no SAG members with seven fingers on each hand.
Seriously? Supply and demand primarily, and the whim of the entrepreneur as the other.
Both of those are valid. I do SAT & ACT tutoring on the side. the more options a potential student finds acceptable for receiving the service I offer, the more I am going to have to lower my prices. The fewer alternatives a prospect finds acceptable, the more I can raise them.
And, of course, I have an attitude rider. If the student or his/her parenst pisses me off early on, I charge more. If I like the student or his/parents, or identify with them in some way, I’ll cut them a deal if needed. Hell, if I am having a good month and think the kid is cool, I’ll do it for a nominal price.
Why should it be any different?
I hear it affect used in that sense all the time. But I may hang around more counselors, therapists, & persons in counseling or therapy than you.
But there are plenty of SAG members with skin tones other than the European norm. Why shouldn’t they be hired to play Vulcans? Why must Vulcans be portayed as all being Caucasian with slightly greenish skin?