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 Ahtman wrote:
I feel like only /b/ and maybe /a/ is being talked about. The /tg/ board isn't that bad.

anything stamped 18+ is something to avoid



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 LoneLictor wrote:

 nomsheep wrote:
Just for your knowledge, 4chan is anonymous for a reason, they don't have accounts, and unless you bring porn, weed or cats you will either get told to leave ( not that nicely) or ignored. 4chan is not all it's built up to be.

Hell, half of it's 'members' ditched it for Reddit.

And now Reddit sucks.

I remember when Reddit was a good website. True, it was mostly pictures of cats. But beyond that it was a pretty good website.

Then all the 4chan people came.

I have only seen it recently and decided i still stick to insulting the op on /b/

 nomsheep wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
I feel like only /b/ and maybe /a/ is being talked about. The /tg/ board isn't that bad.

anything stamped 18+ is something to avoid

Not if you're looking for porn or R-rated films.

 Cheesecat wrote:

 nomsheep wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
I feel like only /b/ and maybe /a/ is being talked about. The /tg/ board isn't that bad.

anything stamped 18+ is something to avoid

Not if you're looking for porn or R-rated films.

Depends on how graphic you want your kitties.

And they are claiming satellites don't exist... When you can see them going over

Those are high altitude spy planes, after all the conspiracy ridden governments want the capabilities of the 'satellites' they claim to possess. Its in their nature.

Also, being a scientist is ludicrous and stupid, because they are proven wrong all the time and constantly have to change their theories.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Also, being a scientist is ludicrous and stupid, because they are proven wrong all the time and constantly have to change their theories.

Isn't that kinda the whole point of science? Guess something, test it out, was it right? yes - more tests, no, then why not?

Testing something is like admitting that you could be wrong! So only people that could be wrong become scientists!

"The fool doth think himself a wise man, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"

Whats funny is that in medieval times people knew that the world was round. It was a myth made up later on to demonstrate how 'backward' they were.

 Phototoxin wrote:
Whats funny is that in medieval times people knew that the world was round. It was a myth made up later on to demonstrate how 'backward' they were.

Indeed.

The way that the story of Columbus is taught here (at least at the High School level) is that he was the only one that thought that the world was round and everybody else thought it was flat and that it turned out he was right.

Instead of the "Columbus thought the world was round and small, and everybody else thought the world was to big to sail across the ocean and it turned out that Columbus was wrong" version.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Also, being a scientist is ludicrous and stupid, because they are proven wrong all the time and constantly have to change their theories.

I do so hope that this is intended ironically...

 d-usa wrote:

 Phototoxin wrote:
Whats funny is that in medieval times people knew that the world was round. It was a myth made up later on to demonstrate how 'backward' they were.

Indeed.

The way that the story of Columbus is taught here (at least at the High School level) is that he was the only one that thought that the world was round and everybody else thought it was flat and that it turned out he was right.

Instead of the "Columbus thought the world was round and small, and everybody else thought the world was to big to sail across the ocean and it turned out that Columbus was wrong" version.

I'm fairly sure Columbus wasn't the fellow who "proved" the world was round...
I think it was Francis something or other...

 purplefood wrote:

 d-usa wrote:

 Phototoxin wrote:
Whats funny is that in medieval times people knew that the world was round. It was a myth made up later on to demonstrate how 'backward' they were.

Indeed.

The way that the story of Columbus is taught here (at least at the High School level) is that he was the only one that thought that the world was round and everybody else thought it was flat and that it turned out he was right.

Instead of the "Columbus thought the world was round and small, and everybody else thought the world was to big to sail across the ocean and it turned out that Columbus was wrong" version.

I'm fairly sure Columbus wasn't the fellow who "proved" the world was round...
I think it was Francis something or other...

He didn't, like I said it was a question of "how big is this round world" instead of the "round vs. flat" battle that is taught in high school over here.

 purplefood wrote:

 d-usa wrote:

 Phototoxin wrote:
Whats funny is that in medieval times people knew that the world was round. It was a myth made up later on to demonstrate how 'backward' they were.

Indeed.

The way that the story of Columbus is taught here (at least at the High School level) is that he was the only one that thought that the world was round and everybody else thought it was flat and that it turned out he was right.

Instead of the "Columbus thought the world was round and small, and everybody else thought the world was to big to sail across the ocean and it turned out that Columbus was wrong" version.

I'm fairly sure Columbus wasn't the fellow who "proved" the world was round...
I think it was Francis something or other...

Aristotle (writing in the 330s BC),credits the mathematical and observational proof of the spherical earth to Pythagoras (6th century BC), so you're about 2000 years out. By the time Ptolemy published his Geographica (mid 2nd century AD), it had become accepted scientific fact, one which remained so among the educated through the medieval period (Bede and Augstine, for instance, both refer to a spherical earth). Columbus, Magellan and Drake all set sail comfortable in the knowledge that the earth was spherical, albeit with less certainty as to its actual circumference (and thus the distance necessary to reach the Americas).

What did not remain accepted was the heliocentric (i.e. that the earth revolved around the sun) model attributed by Archimedes to Hellenistic era (3rd century BC) scholar Aristarchus of Samos, rather the medieval world - which is to say the Catholic church - remained stubbornly wedded to the Ptolemaic model of a geocentric universe, in which the sun, stars and other planets revolved about the earth, long after Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler had demonstrated it by applying geometry to observations of the apparent passage of the stars and planets, to be obviously false, famously arresting and trying Gallileo for publishing on the subject, and burning to death the astronomer Giordano Bruno. (Amusingly, it took until 1992 for the then-Pope John-Paul II to officially apologise on their behalf.) Galileo's supposed parting remarks to the inquisition "Eppur si muove" ("And yet it [the earth] moves") have been upheld since as encapsulating the rejection of dogmatic religious obscuratanism which heralded the scientific revolution (which in time provided, in the form of Newton's laws of gravitation, the theoretical basis to explain his predecessors' empirical observations).