List of Misconceptions

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**Krellnus**

An area where people are able to list misconceptions that they know.
Rules: Validate it if you are able to
As many as you like per post
If someones asks you to explain it, please do.
Thank you, and if you find a rather ambiguous one, please be sure to post it!

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Men do not have a prostrate.

They will never be able to get prostrate cancer.

**Tim the Biovore**

In some countries, dogs need a permit to, ah, well, you know, with cats.

It gets weirder though. If the law requires a permit, that means there should be a place to get such a permit.

**Krellnus**

Rayleigh Scattering and the Tynall Effect DO NOT make the sky blue. The sky is a blue material!

**helgrenze**

Gyroscopic forces are not required for a rider to balance a bicycle.
However, the stability of a bicycle is improved by gyroscopic forces as well as by its geometry and the rider's ability to counteract tilting by steering.

**Darkchild**

Can i do a 40k related one? Or is that not Off topic enough?

Darkchild

**Krellnus**

No, this is the OT forum. This is for real life misconceptions.

**Darkchild**

um ok. Most berries are not berries.
Examples of true berries include tomatoes, grapes and the fruit of a potato plant.
Which will kill you.

Darkchild

**Emperors Faithful**

Van Gogh did not cut off his ear.

It was his ear lobe.

**Regwon**

Cracking your knuckles (or any of your joints for that matter) does not cause arthritis.

**Emperors Faithful**

*phew*

That's a relief.

*crackle*

**Kilkrazy**

If you use a microscope to observe a chamber containing air and pollen grains floating in it, you will see the pollen grains moving around in a random manner.

This is the pollen grains hunting for food.

**The Dreadnote**

A manometer is an instrument used to measure pressure.

**IAmTheWalrus**

There is no such thing as centrifugal or 'center-fleeing' force.

It's merely a force vector of centripetal and lateral motion.

**CadianXV**

Life imitates art.
Art imitates life.

**dogma**

Centrifical Force.

Evolution.

**Orkeosaurus**

Space isn't cold.

It can't have any temperature, temperature is a property of matter.

**dogma**

Coldness is the absence of heat. Since space cannot hold heat, it is necessarily cold.

**Orkeosaurus**

I disagree.

By that logic every abstract concept is cold as well. And that's just silly.

Hot and Cold are defined by a high and low temperature, respectively, and their relation to one another. As temperature is an inapplicable metric for concepts that are not composed of matter those concepts cannot be hot or cold, and the question of whether they contain heat is invalidated by the absence of the metric used to determine the quality of "being hot".

**whatwhat**

Regwon wrote:Cracking your knuckles (or any of your joints for that matter) does not cause arthritis.

I heard this one the other day, and supposedly your not even cracking anything, it's just the sound of trapped air being released.

The great wall of china is the only man made object visible from space. For one it's only visible against a morning or evening shadow, and for another billions of lights are far more visible up there.

**generalgrog**

^^^^^^
We have our first debate!!

Anywhooo..I'll conrtribute.

America is a Christian Nation.

GG

**dogma**

Orkeosaurus wrote:I disagree.

By that logic every abstract concept is cold as well. And that's just silly.

Not silly, irrelevant. Its the same sort of argument that makes Communism atheist.

Orkeosaurus wrote:
Hot and Cold are defined by a high and low temperature, respectively, and their relation to one another. As temperature is an inapplicable metric for concepts that are not composed of matter those concepts cannot be hot or cold, and the question of whether they contain heat is invalidated by the absence of the metric used to determine the quality of "being hot".

Are we discussing space in terms of literal emptiness, or space in terms of Dirac?

**whatwhat**

The whole "debate" is "irrelevant." Since it can bee seen as being implicit, rather than being a misconception.

**dogma**

whatwhat wrote:The whole "debate" is "irrelevant." Since it can bee seen as being implicit, rather than being a misconception.

So, the debate isn't irrelevant because there are multiple valid positions?

**Frazzled**

whatwhat wrote:The whole "debate" is "irrelevant." Since it can bee seen as being implicit, rather than being a misconception.

**whatwhat**

dogma wrote:
whatwhat wrote:The whole "debate" is "irrelevant." Since it can bee seen as being implicit, rather than being a misconception.

So, the debate isn't irrelevant because there are multiple valid positions?

Yeh but it's wholly irrelevant on the basis that a conclusion to said debate would do nothing than put a slight smirk on your or orkeo's face. Irrelevant.

**dogma**

whatwhat wrote:
Yeh but it's wholly irrelevant on the basis that a conclusion to said debate would do nothing than put a slight smirk on your or orkeo's face. Irrelevant.

No, that's not what irrelevant means. You've necessarily indicated that this debate is relevant to both Orkeo and myself, therefore it cannot be irrelevant in general. Are you referring to relevancy with respect to the thread (itself placed in the off-topic forum) or relevancy with respect to the people conversing?

**whatwhat**

dogma wrote:
whatwhat wrote:
Yeh but it's wholly irrelevant on the basis that a conclusion to said debate would do nothing than put a slight smirk on your or orkeo's face. Irrelevant.

No, that's not what irrelevant means. You've necessarily indicated that this debate is relevant to both Orkeo and myself, therefore it cannot be irrelevant. Learn to speak English.

It's certainly not relevant to me, and the other however many people on this forum. No doubt now you will tell me how irrelevant is not a democratic word.

edit: Ironically I have now become involved in a debate which in the same way, to many people is completely irrelevant. Debate fail.

**dogma**

whatwhat wrote:
It's certainly not relevant to me, and the other however many people on this forum. No doubt now you will tell me how irrelevant is not a democratic word.

Democracy has nothing to do with this matter.

Do you discuss relevancy in all threads which feature comments that do not interest you? That must be quite the work-load. I mean, if I commented on all things which did not interest me I would have a very full day. Not to mention the conundrum that follows from being interested by that which is not interesting.

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whatwhat wrote:
edit: Ironically I have now become involved in a debate which in the same way, to many people is completely irrelevant. Debate fail.

You failed as soon as you made your first post.

**whatwhat**

Blatantly you weren't taking me as seriously as was talking myself. Never mind squire.