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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 03:42 PM Original message |
Do people really not understand how tides work? or the basic dynamics of wave-action? |
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SunnySong (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. People thought "bombing the moon" would effect tides... |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. one would almost think that the msm is being deliberately ignorant on these facts. |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. Most people are scientifically illiterate. |
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Ready4Change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 04:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Tides/waves = alchemy. |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 10:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. I'm pretty sure I descended from naked people. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. Are you kidding? Have you seen the crap that people post on this issue? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 09:44 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I can see how "ordinary" people can be "befuddled", but it's so damned annoying to see media |
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SunnySong (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 09:45 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I have always found the news media completely accurate and fair. |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 10:23 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. What is "cease up"? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 10:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Pretty sure they meant seize up |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 10:34 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Thx |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 03:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. I don't particularly care either way when regaling others with my superior understanding of events. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:23 AM Response to Reply #8 |
21. If they cease upping, they'll start downing and *the Earth will implode!* (nt) |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
22. It sorta bugs me that I can't tell which claim is the made-up one |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
12. Hell, from what I've read most don't know how GOV'T works |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:04 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. That's an easy one. |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:17 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Your knowledge doesn't change the previous FACT! |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
13. Are you surprised that a people that are confused by the complexity of the four-way stop sign |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:09 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. LOL |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #15 |
23. And they actually sometimes make you interact with other drivers!111!1 |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:19 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. ahh yes.. the ubiquitous 4 way stop |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
17. It is the very first thing I learned in oceanography. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
19. Consider how many people are dumb enough to believe in homeopathy |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
20. a glass of wine with a few drops of deadly poison in it: Although not all the liquid is poison, all |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
24. Most people are too stupid and are stuck in Magical Thinking. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 03:08 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. The thing that gets me is that so many of these people actually live at or near the coasts |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:59 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. "You know how dumb the average person is, right? Now, look around and realize that |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-27-10 04:31 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Who was it that said that? I can't remember! |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
27. Yes. |
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zorahopkins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
28. Whales |
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