# Tuckerfan - How bored are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 30, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603 "2005-06-30T23:08:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/21 "2005-06-30T23:46:01Z")
[New ‘Nuclear Battery’ Runs 10 Years, 10 Times More Powerful](http://www.physorg.com/news4081.html): > [@](#): > > For 50 years, people have been investigating converting simple nuclear decay into usable energy, but the yields were always too low. We’ve found a way to make the interaction much more efficient, and we hope these findings will lead to a new kind of battery that can pump out energy for years. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/22 "2005-06-30T23:58:46Z")
> [@Duke of Rat](#): > > QFT. Are you agreeing with me, or insulting me? Thank you or fuck you, depending. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/23 "2005-07-01T00:04:38Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Are you agreeing with me, or insulting me? > > Thank you or fuck you, depending. 😃 QFT = Quoted For Truth It’s like ‘Me too’ or ‘I second this.’ First time I ever seen it on this here message board, though. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/24 "2005-07-01T00:11:07Z")
I’m a fan of Tuckerfan’s threads. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/25 "2005-07-01T00:17:29Z")
I wouldn’t mind a recurring “This week’s neat Science stuff” thread. That way we could keep it all in one easily accessible place. And you can’t really argue that neat stuff in science isn’t in keeping with the spirit of this board. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/26 "2005-07-01T00:17:45Z")
What they said. Without **Tuckerfan** ’s posts, I’d miss all sorts of cool stuff. Sorry, ' **tool** …you’re on your own with this one. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/27 "2005-07-01T00:18:10Z")
Someone did a QFT on one of my posts here before, I had to look it up on [www.urbandictionary.com](http://www.urbandictionary.com). ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/28 "2005-07-01T00:19:41Z")
I, too, am on the anti-pitting line. His stories are things that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise, usually. Sometimes the humor that shows up is interesting, too. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/29 "2005-07-01T00:23:30Z")
I’ll ninth [or whatever we’re up to now] the opinion that I like Tucker’s threads. I get the [space.com](http://space.com) ticker on my home page, but he puts up a lot of things that I wouldn’t ordinarily run across in my daily surfing, and I usually learn things from the links he offers. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/30 "2005-07-01T00:27:47Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Are you agreeing with me, or insulting me? > > Thank you or fuck you, depending. 😃 Sorry 'bout that! Yeah, agreeing “Quoted For Truth” as others pointed out. Word! I share an interest in a lot of the science/space/aerospace stuff that Tuckerfan linkss. Just scanning the forum will yield nuggets of info that I am generally interested in, and I don’t have to dig for 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/31 "2005-07-01T00:30:14Z")
On the one hand, methinks that creating 5 threads in 5 minutes on a well trafficed board like the SDMB is too much. In general. OTOH: Holy molely, those are cool stories. And I’ll note that they’re from sites like [http://www.eurekalert.org](http://www.eurekalert.org) , not Reuters: most posters are not likely to just come across these stories. So I’ll give Tuckerfan the thumbs up on this one. Sorry **lightningtool**. ## (OBTW: Fans of Tuckerfan are notified that he sponsors lots of cool threads at [The Unaboard](http://65.69.77.33/forums/index.php), another fine SD spinoff.) From Wikipedia: [QFT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFT): QFT can represent ``` * quantitative feedback theory. * quantum field theory, an application of quantum mechanics. * the quantum Fourier transform, a discrete Fourier transform. * Queen's Film Theatre, a cinema in the British Isles. * Quoted For Truth, Internet slang. * Quit Fucking Talking, Internet slang. ``` Kinda ambiguous, no? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/32 "2005-07-01T00:33:39Z")
I like them too. Why are you cluttering up the Pit shit like this? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/33 "2005-07-01T00:41:02Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > Where did I tell other people what to do there? I made a suggestion, which is an entirely different thing then telling people what to do. > > Vapid, shit-eating cunt. Sorry, **Metacom** , I misread your post through the filter of… well, let’s just say this is not a day I’ll look back on fondly. Or at all, if I can help it. So yes, I was out of line. Peace? That said, I’m another vote for enjoying **Tuckerfan’s** links. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/34 "2005-07-01T00:42:15Z")
Sorry, dude. I like Tuck’s posts. He isn’t doing it to pad his post count and he isn’t bragging about the number of threads he posts…he’s just posting nifty stuff. I respect your opinion and I understand that you think it’s annoying. But, I think you overreacted a tad with a Pit thread. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/35 "2005-07-01T00:48:23Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I like them too. Why are you cluttering up the Pit shit like this? I like **lightningtool** ’s OP. Why are you cluttering up his thread with shit like that? Don’t like, don’t read, so on and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/36 "2005-07-01T00:58:18Z")
I’m feeling that the Op wouldn’t care as much if **Tuckerfan** Did something like: > [@](#): > > \ > > \ > > Do you think the explosion of the Columbia will bring more attention to this launch than they’d been getting before? […or perhaps…] Is anyone going to be going to the launch? Rather than: > [@](#): > > \ > \ If people just want links, there are plenty of link sites out there; when I see a thread here, I expect to get more than a sound bite. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@The\_Hook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hook)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/37 "2005-07-01T01:11:41Z")
Bah! It’s not like he linked to the [Eye of Sauron](http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7564) from outer space. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/38 "2005-07-01T01:21:50Z")
Not quite an anti-Pitting. I think he posts some interesting stuff, but five separate threads in a few minutes seems excessive and tends to monopolize the lead page. I like the suggestion that if that’s what he wants to do, he should start a weekly “Tuckerfan’s Whizzbang Science Thread” and consolidate his links there. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/39 "2005-07-01T01:21:56Z")
I like **Tuckerfan** , but I did think that that many threads in such a short time, without adding anything of his own, was annoying. A lot of the stories that I read on here don’t interest me as much as what other people say about them, and it’s the conversations and debates that I’m looking for, not just a quote and a link to an article. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603/40 "2005-07-01T01:23:48Z")
**Tuckerfan** will deserve this pitting when he starts posting [Time Cube](http://www.timecube.com) crap. Okay, so he doesn’t put much commentary into the OPs. But if someone cares enough about them to start a discussion, he always follows up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuckerfan-how-bored-are-you/310603.md?page=3)