More absurdities of science

[gaara4158]

I just thought I'd continue the list in another thread about all the absurdities science is feeding us, since the other one got boring.

1) That a tube of metal weighing several tons can actually fly in the air without the use of miraculous magic;
2) That a careless exchange of fluids can somehow result in a baby
3) That the sun is 93 million miles away yet I can still see it
4) That the stars are trillions of times further than that, yet i can also see them
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Complete the list!

 

[ragarth]

That those drunken, slothenly Greeks were right about the Atom.

That ice floats because it's less dense than water

That fever isn't caused by excessive red humour

 

[GoSeminoles!]

Time is a variable which depends on how fast you are traveling relative to someone who is stationary.

 

[GoSeminoles!]

A vacuum is a space in which there is on average nothing, but at any instant matter spontaneously appears and disappears.

 

[Danyc]

That the same force that causes me to stay on the ground can cause the sun to make the earth spin around it despite it being millions of miles away!!!!

 

[gaara4158]

That the same force that causes me to stay on the ground can cause the sun to make the earth spin around it despite it being millions of miles away!!!!

utterly preposterous i say!

 

[sbvera13]

That millions and billions and trillions of tiny animals that are too small for you to even SEE! can actually make you sick!

 

[AV1611VET]

I just thought I'd continue the list in another thread about all the absurdities science is feeding us, since the other one got boring.

1) That a tube of metal weighing several tons can actually fly in the air without the use of miraculous magic;
2) That a careless exchange of fluids can somehow result in a baby
3) That the sun is 93 million miles away yet I can still see it
4) That the stars are trillions of times further than that, yet i can also see them
5) That a space vessel that can't lift off in cold weather one day, suddenly can in another.
6) That a payload's door wouldn't open in a fire because it was built to open outward.
7) That a chemical that doesn't affect mice would horribly disfigure humans.
8) That we're still alive after Y2K.
9) That Pluto is still thought of by some scientists in the IAU as a planet.
10) That the entire universe fit within a pixel, yet Noah's Ark was too small for all those animals.

Complete the list!

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[Naraoia]

That you can control machines with your thoughts. Or even talk to people on the other side of the globe without sending a messenger and waiting months for its return.

 

[Nathan Poe]

"1) That a tube of metal weighing several tons can actually fly in the air without the use of miraculous magic;"

I live on the Hudson River, so I'm finding this one debatable these days...

 

[keith99]

Time is a variable which depends on how fast you are traveling relative to someone who is stationary.

Fail. You stated this in a way that implies that one object can objectively considered stationary and the other moving. relativity says the opposite.

 

[GoSeminoles!]

Fail. You stated this in a way that implies that one object can objectively considered stationary and the other moving. relativity says the opposite.

Fail is duely noted.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

Those magical images I keep seeing are supposed to be tennis players. It is said that I see the matches at the same time that they are played! One the other side of the globe!! As if. How come they don't simply fall off? Or just freeze to death in their *crosses himsef* miniskirts?? LOL

Surely the Deveiver aided by the willing help of the Australian Openist Faith is trying to get us and our children to do likewise and catch death by wearing only light garments outside.

 

[paug]

I still don't get how we're meant to believe that there's water in the air. It's pretty obvious there's nothing there, because otherwise we'd see it!

 

[AV1611VET]

I still don't get how we're meant to believe that there's water in the air. It's pretty obvious there's nothing there, because otherwise we'd see it!

 

[Lord Emsworth]

I still don't get how we're meant to believe that there's water in the air. It's pretty obvious there's nothing there, because otherwise we'd see it!

There you have it, paug. If you look past the clouds in the magic painting, the blue stuff, that's the water.

(Although I have to say, I think the moving magical paintings are better.)

 

[BananaSlug]

I still cannot believe that embryos are formed from an incomplete egg and incomplete sperm. Everyone knows that the homunculus within the man's seed is already fully formed!