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hooah212002
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Message 1 of 13 (587306)
10-18-2010 10:28 AM


Obama will announce Monday that he has a walk-on role on Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" program in December to challenge the ancient myth that Greek scientist Archimedes set fire to an invading Roman fleet using sunlight reflected by mirrors.
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First, I have to say: "goddammit Adam and Jamie, HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO BUST THIS MYTH?????"
Second, this is awesome, I think. This president has done quite a bit to include secularists and science minded folk. Of course, it can be argued that he has done what he should do, but it is out of the ordinary for U.S. presidents to go out of their way to acknowledge science and the non-religious.
Edited by hooah212002, : dear god. The dreaded there/their mistake and none of you called me out on it.....

"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.

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Phat
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Message 2 of 13 (587320)
10-18-2010 12:21 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by hooah212002
10-18-2010 10:28 AM


while there
Maybe while there, Obama can also bust the myth that he is not a US citizen, by offering irrefutable proof!

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frako
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Message 3 of 13 (587326)
10-18-2010 12:38 PM
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10-18-2010 12:21 PM


Re: while there

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crashfrog
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Message 4 of 13 (587329)
10-18-2010 12:55 PM
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10-18-2010 12:21 PM


Re: while there
Maybe while there, Obama can also bust the myth that he is not a US citizen, by offering irrefutable proof!
I know you were kidding. Still, good to have it out there.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Turned graphic into big thumbnail to get page width back to normal.

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DBlevins
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Message 5 of 13 (587334)
10-18-2010 1:04 PM
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10-18-2010 12:55 PM


Re: while there
Anyone could photoshop that!
Where's his longform Birth certificate!
*In the spirit of full disclosure I'm joking

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frako
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Message 6 of 13 (587434)
10-18-2010 7:59 PM
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10-18-2010 10:28 AM


First, I have to say: "goddammit Adam and Jamie, HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO BUST THIS MYTH?????"
good point they did it whit old type mirrors, new mirrors who came up whit a new argument that it could work. The concept sonuds good on paper though it fails in practice the best they got it to do was singe the wood and the boat would only haveto move a few inches and it would be good for a few hours before one could set up the mirrors aggain.

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Taz
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Message 7 of 13 (587474)
10-19-2010 12:45 AM


I for one can't wait for all the bogus complaints from the right. They'll probably charge him of being a stalinist atheist for appearing on mythbusters, or some other nonsense.

  
Artemis Entreri 
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Message 8 of 13 (588561)
10-26-2010 3:20 PM


I <3 Obama
Dang its like the Obama Fan Club here.

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Message 9 of 13 (588644)
10-27-2010 12:47 AM
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10-26-2010 3:20 PM


Just curious
I'm curious about something. Have you posted even one message on this forum that is solely substance? In other words, no name calling, no snark, but simply facts or reasoned argument.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
...creationists have a great way to detect fraud and it doesn't take 8 or 40 years or even a scientific degree to spot the fraud--'if it disagrees with the bible then it is wrong'.... -- archaeologist

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Artemis Entreri 
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Message 10 of 13 (588661)
10-27-2010 8:48 AM
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10-27-2010 12:47 AM


Re: Just curious
sure have

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Minnemooseus
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Message 11 of 13 (595707)
12-10-2010 1:21 AM


Do Republicans shun science or does science make Democrats?
The subtitle is from something from the Daily Kos:
Do Republicans shun science or does science make Democrats?
The above cited is commentary on a Slate article:
Most scientists in this country are Democrats. That's a problem.
The Kos article starts off by quoting:
quote:
A Pew Research Center Poll from July 2009 showed that only around 6 percent of U.S. scientists are Republicans; 55 percent are Democrats, 32 percent are independent, and the rest "don't know" their affiliation.
Now, I was going to plug this into a misc. links topic, but then I discovered in the Slate article:
quote:
This immense imbalance has political consequences. When President Obama appears Wednesday on Discovery Channel's Mythbusters (9 p.m. ET), he will be there not just to encourage youngsters to do their science homework but also to reinforce the idea that Democrats are the party of science and rationality. And why not? Most scientists are already on his side. Imagine if George W. Bush had tried such a stuntevery major newspaper in the country would have run an op-ed piece by some Nobel Prize winner asking how the guy who prohibited stem-cell research and denied climate change could have the gall to appear on a program that extols the power of scientific thinking.
followed up with:
quote:
Yet, partisan politics aside, why should it matter that there are so few Republican scientists? After all, it's the scientific facts that matter, and facts aren't blue or red.
Well, that's not quite right. Consider the case of climate change, of which beliefs are astonishingly polarized according to party affiliation and ideology. A March 2010 Gallup poll showed that 66 percent of Democrats (and 74 percent of liberals) say the effects of global warming are already occurring, as opposed to 31 percent of Republicans. Does that mean that Democrats are more than twice as likely to accept and understand the scientific truth of the matter? And that Republicans are dominated by scientifically illiterate yahoos and corporate shills willing to sacrifice the planet for short-term economic and political gain?
Much more at both articles.
Moose

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Message 12 of 13 (596100)
12-13-2010 1:45 AM
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12-10-2010 1:21 AM


Re: Do Republicans shun science or does science make Democrats?
I think a lot of that has to do with what this very forum focuses on: Evolution and Creationism. There are many Republicans who I know personally who believe in Evolution, but if you're a Creationist then chances are you are NOT a Democrat.
I don't think that science in of itself pro-Democrat or anti-Republican, but the fact that the loudest anti-Evolution and anti-Environmental voices tend to come from the Republicans probably pushed more scientists to being Democrats.
An acquaintance of mine was an avid Tea-Party supporter (I'm personally a liberal, mostly) and went to many of their rallies. However, I remember talking with him about environmental issues and he was clearly upset about the Tea-Party's complete lack of legitimate stance on the issue. In modern U.S. politics environmentalism is becoming less of a contest between Left and Right and is degenerating into a contest between Right and Wrong.

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Taz
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Message 13 of 13 (596101)
12-13-2010 1:50 AM


I haven't been watching fox lately. Have they come up with some bullshit criticism of Obama appearing on mythbuster yet?

  
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