[QUOTE=tdn]
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But mon deiu, the moron’s le chique was le hot!
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You betcher. It seemed like she knew the right answer too. Hot, smart, and glasses!
[QUOTE=Colophon]
Uh huh, but anyway I was saying to Bill, did you see that thing on that one show last night, where the dude like totally fell in the ditch off that ramp? I was like, haha, lamer! Shall we go and get some burgers, I’m bored…
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Yeah, but, like paris Hilton says its hot, soo…
[QUOTE=Laughing Lagomorph]
You betcher. It seemed like she knew the right answer too. Hot, smart, and glasses!
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I know a little French, but not enough to answer this question. Is it worded in such a way that people could have been confused and thought it asked what the Earth orbited?
[QUOTE=elucidator]
That could really mess up daylight savings time.
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Which, of course, leads to global warming.
Once, while camping, I was talking to some of the other people in the area. They were amazed by how many triangles you could make out of the stars in the sky.
What morons! Everyone knows there’s only one!
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Which, of course, leads to global warming.
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Egads! The ignorance shown in that!
I mean, what the hell was Congress thinking? :eek:
I propose this: ln order to counteract global warming caused by extended daylight savings time, we have more snow days in the Winter.
[QUOTE=tdn]
Egads! The ignorance shown in that!
I mean, what the hell was Congress thinking? :eek:
I propose this: ln order to counteract global warming caused by extended daylight savings time, we have more snow days in the Winter.
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I thought that letter had to be a joke.
And I was right.
-FrL-
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
I’ve mentioned this one before:
Mangetout and Friend are gazing at the clear night sky
F: The sun is a star, right?
M: That’s right.
F: <looks around at the many visible stars in the night sky> Which one?
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Mm. If the sun has a “secret identity” in which it is just another star in the heavens at night…
Would it be fair to says it moonlights at night? :eek:
True Blue Jack
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor]
The only thing I know about astronomy is that I’m a Capricorn and sometimes my horoscope in the newspaper says my day is going to suck, and *it’s always right *so there must be something to it.
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Yeah, well, I WOULD believe in Astrology BUT
— I’m a Cancer with Leo rising. That makes me WAY too skeptical about such things.
True Blue Jack
[QUOTE=commasense]
I’m somewhat surprised that after more than a week and 160+ posts, neither the OP nor any the scientifically literate Dopers here have bothered to defend Lumpy’s poor wife.
In fact, the whole Universe does go around the North Star, once a day, for all observers in the Earth’s Northern Hemisphere.
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I let it go because as any married man knows, wives are in a special category of People You Don’t Contradict.
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ]
So I’m confused…do all you people who want others to “be curious about the world around you” really want us to be curious, or just be curious to ourselves and not ask questions out loud?
All the examples I’ve seen in this thread don’t point to knowledgeable people giving less-knowledgeable people information. They point to knowledgeable people pointing and laughing at the ignorance of others.
Not all of us come up with a question and trot off to the library to get 12 books on the subject. Sometimes it’s easier just to help others with their facts and move on. Laughing at people only makes them less eager to care about the subject at all.
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Exactly. I mean, what is so wrong with sharing information? Not everyone can afford, time-wise or monetarily, to get multiple degrees. And even if you do have multiple degrees, you’re still going to have gaps in your knowledge somewhere. So what’s wrong with asking a question that will fill that gap?
Bear with me on this – I’m thinking of a scene from a movie called Shirley Valentine. The titular character, middle-aged, is describing the turning point in her adolescence. She was in school, and the whole class had been posed a question that was worth, I think, ten house points. A large amount, anyway, and since it was unusual for her to get any house points, this was a big deal to her, because she happened to know the answer on account of her dad had told her.
The question was “What was man’s most important invention?” One student after another got it wrong, while she stood there going “Ooh, ooh, miss, please,” Horshak-style. Finally, the headmistress said, “All right, Shirley; you might as well get it wrong with everyone else.”
“[deep breath] Miss…It was the wheel.”
::crickets::
“Miss? It was the wheel? Man’s most important invention?”
“Someone must have told you!”
“Well how the bleedin’ hell else could I learn it?!”
And, of course, she didn’t get the points. Now, to be fair, I suppose she shouldn’t have said “bleedin’ hell” to the headmistress, but I understand the logic. Being told is a perfectly valid way to learn something. But in that case, the twig was bent. :dubious:
[QUOTE=cmyk]
Not intentionally. In my eagerness to put this together, the ~29 day moon cycle was a gross oversight on my part. :smack:
I’ve been meaning to correct that, and upload an updated version. But, I plan on making more of these sorts of videos (and of much better quality too).
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I’m glad you show the moon’s shadow passing “behind” (I believe that would be south of) the earth, and the earth’s shadow passing “behind” the moon. If you weren’t planning to already, I think it would be cool to do a video showing both types of eclipses, maybe with a “side view” shot or something. Pretty good video though in any case.