I love the clarity that science brings

[jsharr ★]

[Dottleshead ★]

So awesome.

[Kzoo]

I wonder if it's because they all got too close to the edge.  Some sort of T-Rex reunion gone bad on the edge of the world.

 

[jsharr ★]

2 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

I wonder if it's because they all got too close to the edge.  Some sort of T-Rex reunion gone bad on the edge of the world.

 

I think they were all on a train and the bridge washed out and none of them could pull the emergency stop cord.

[Kzoo]

7 minutes ago, jsharr said:

I think they were all on a train and the bridge washed out and none of them could pull the emergency stop cord.

Now that makes sense.

 

[jsharr ★]

8 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

Now that makes sense.

 

Science is like that.

[12string]

1 hour ago, Kzoo said:

I wonder if it's because they all got too close to the edge.  Some sort of T-Rex reunion gone bad on the edge of the world.

 

If they all congregated on the edge it would have flipped the earth over, and all the dinosaurs would fall off and there wouldn't be any more.....   HEEEYYYY I think I just made a major discovery!  SCIENCE!!!

[JerrySTL ★]

 

[MickinMD ★]

Each year of teaching high Gifted and Talented Chemistry, I would read the piece below from W. H. Auden's "For the time being," and ask them what it means.  Of course, it means we can not discover scientific truths if our studies are influenced by our expectations (Nature "is just as big a liar...as we are.").  Shortly after discussing this, we studied Rutherford's Gold Foil experiment, which shocked Rutherford and showed that atoms are mostly made of empty space.

The First (of the 3) Wise Man:

To break down Her defences

And profit from the vision

That plain men can predict through an

Ascesis of their senses,

With rack and screw I put Nature through

A thorough inquisition:

 

 

But She was so afraid that if I were disappointed

I should hurt Her more that Her answers were disjointed

I did. I didn't. I will. I won't.

She is just as big a liar, in fact, as we are.

To discover how to be truthful now

Is the reason I follow this star.

[Kzoo]

@jsharr

[Ralphie ★]

9 hours ago, MickinMD said:

Each year of teaching high Gifted and Talented Chemistry, I would read the piece below from W. H. Auden's "For the time being," and ask them what it means.  Of course, it means we can not discover scientific truths if our studies are influenced by our expectations (Nature "is just as big a liar...as we are.").  Shortly after discussing this, we studied Rutherford's Gold Foil experiment, which shocked Rutherford and showed that atoms are mostly made of empty space.

The First (of the 3) Wise Man:

 

To break down Her defences

 

And profit from the vision

 

That plain men can predict through an

 

Ascesis of their senses,

 

With rack and screw I put Nature through

 

A thorough inquisition:

 

 

 

 

But She was so afraid that if I were disappointed

 

I should hurt Her more that Her answers were disjointed

 

I did. I didn't. I will. I won't.

 

She is just as big a liar, in fact, as we are.

 

To discover how to be truthful now

 

Is the reason I follow this star.

 

My high School chemistry teacher was also the tough and gruff winning futbal coach, and he told us “When you assume, it makes an ass out of u and me.”  Simple but great advice that I have never forgotten and wish I could say always observed.  One of life’s great truths IMNSHO  

 

 

[Longjohn ★]

Assumption is the lowest form of thinking.

[late]

16 hours ago, Kzoo said:

I wonder if it's because they all got too close to the edge.  Some sort of T-Rex reunion gone bad on the edge of the world.

 

Naw, it was a vacation in Mexico.

By a rock 6 miles wide.

It went through the ocean, through the mantle, and had a party with the lava.

It was a bad hair day.

Now ask yourself, why aren't we smarter than the dinosaurs yet?