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Author | Topic: President Obama to appear on Mythbusters in December | |||||||||||||||||||||||
hooah212002 Member (Idle past 801 days) Posts: 3193 Joined: |
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.
source 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 Member Posts: 18262 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
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 Member (Idle past 305 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HplZ_taHXLM
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1466 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 3775 days) Posts: 652 From: Puyallup, WA. Joined: |
Anyone could photoshop that!
Where's his longform Birth certificate! *In the spirit of full disclosure I'm joking
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frako Member (Idle past 305 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 3291 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
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.
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Artemis Entreri  Suspended Member (Idle past 4228 days) Posts: 1194 From: Northern Virginia Joined: |
Dang its like the Obama Fan Club here.
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subbie Member (Idle past 1254 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
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  Suspended Member (Idle past 4228 days) Posts: 1194 From: Northern Virginia Joined: |
sure have
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3941 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
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: Now, I was going to plug this into a misc. links topic, but then I discovered in the Slate article:
quote: followed up with:
quote: Much more at both articles. Moose
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Tupinambis Junior Member (Idle past 4655 days) Posts: 18 Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 3291 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
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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