Devastated

thetrim

Eggcelsior

http://youtu.be/rDJu7r6OUvk

thetrim

thetrim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Tv3y-JO4E

gmac

saluki2007 said:

So has anyone ever tempted to make this?

I have been tempted but I have never attempted it. 

nolaegghead

nolaegghead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDCXma0v-fY

henapple

nolaegghead said:

Hitler picked up the concept from the US.  The US program was funded by corporate institutions.

And also involved...omg, those infallible scientist. 

Sardonicus

LOL

Science mockers are funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAyJcwkEuPE

Hilarious, even.

henapple

Eggcelsior said:

@henapple good thing science proved them wrong.

Evidently the great thing about science is d&#!= it's true...until they change their mind. 

nolaegghead

Uninformed "gut" solutions are always more manly.

henapple

Damn scientists. ... http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/california-drought-climate-change-noaa

nolaegghead

@henapple most localized weather is just weather. 

Sardonicus

Amazingly ignorant or blatantly disingenuous?

You decide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0a_60PMR8

NPHuskerFL

Meanwhile in the Mad Scientist Lab he's coming up with new exciting ways to steal gov't tax $$$$$ researching the sex lives of South African ground squirrels.  What would we do if we didn't know?  That would be an utter travesty!  Yeah science. 

nolaegghead

An aversion to complexity—at least when communicating with the public—can also be seen in the types of answers politicians now provide the media. The average length of a sound bite by a presidential candidate in 1968 was 42.3 seconds. Two decades later, it was 9.8 seconds. Today, it’s just a touch over seven seconds and well on its way to being supplanted by 140-character Twitter bursts.

Little wonder then that distrust—of leaders, institutions, experts, and those who report on them—is rampant. A YouGov poll conducted last December found that three-quarters of Americans agreed that science is a force for good in the world. Yet when asked if they truly believe what scientists tell them, only 36 per cent of respondents said yes. Just 12 per cent expressed strong confidence in the press to accurately report scientific findings. (Although according to a 2012 paper by Gordon Gauchat, a University of North Carolina sociologist, the erosion of trust in science over the past 40 years has been almost exclusively confined to two groups: conservatives and regular churchgoers. Counterintuitively, it is the most highly educated among them—with post-secondary education—who harbour the strongest doubts.)

The term “elitist” has become one of the most used, and feared, insults in American life. Even in the country’s halls of higher learning, there is now an ingrained bias that favours the accessible over the exacting.

henapple

Well. ..we've gone from an impending ice age to global warming to climate change. I guess I'll pack a speedo but throw a jacket in just in case.

nolaegghead

They don’t appear to be getting much smarter as they age. A 2013 survey of 166,000 adults across 20 countries that tested math, reading and technological problem-solving found Americans to be below the international average in every category. (Japan, Finland, Canada, South Korea and Slovakia were among the 11 nations that scored significantly higher.)

The trends are not encouraging. In 1978, 42 per cent of Americans reported that they had read 11 or more books in the past year. In 2014, just 28 per cent can say the same, while 23 per cent proudly admit to not having read even one, up from eight per cent in 1978. Newspaper and magazine circulation continues to decline sharply, as does viewership for cable news. The three big network supper-hour shows drew a combined average audience of 22.6 million in 2013, down from 52 million in 1980. While 82 per cent of Americans now say they seek out news digitally, the quality of the information they’re getting is suspect. Among current affairs websites, Buzzfeed logs almost as many monthly hits as the Washington Post.

Eggcelsior

http://youtu.be/3KeplwDwEB4

NPHuskerFL

Research the molecular saturation degree necessary to trigger a cotton garment to become translucent. People rioting over money being spent said no egghead ever.  

Eggcelsior

@henapple get in line.

nolaegghead

henapple said:

nolaegghead said:

Hitler picked up the concept from the US.  The US program was funded by corporate institutions.

And also involved...omg, those infallible scientist. 

The eugenics movement was an extreme manifestation of social racism.

henapple

Hehe.
 In a sense, climate change can now be considered the world’s largest weapon of mass destruction, perhaps even, the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.”

John Kerry, February 16, 2014 

I thought muslim extremist might top the list....tell those Iraqis to get some sunscreen. 

nolaegghead

I don't like fear mongering regardless of who says it.  What Kerry said is BS.

henapple

@nolaegghead. ..I read the entire article. You do not want to know what I think the problem is.

Sardonicus

Were the GOP "leaders" telling lies then

or are the GOP "leaders" telling lies now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckxLgsUQmHg

henapple

They are republicans. ..not conservatives. 

Eggcelsior

henapple said:

They are republicans. ..not conservatives. 

They sure seem to think so.

NPHuskerFL

@henapple Sending care packages to Iraqis of SPF-100 baby oil. Sun is good. 

henapple

Eggcelsior said:

henapple said:

They are republicans. ..not conservatives. 

They sure seem to think so.

No...scientists do, and liberals