even scientists say it's cuckoo, they claim to have found a planet that's like 15,000,000 years long, so now they aren't even sure how old is the universe!! hahahah
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I've seen "light year" misused as a unit of duration (1/3 fewer calories than a regular year, perhaps?), and even Star Wars did the same thing with "parsec" (in an appallingly dumb line for sci-fi by the time it was made), but this is the first time I've ever seen a reference to a planet being "15,000,000 years long"! That's hilarious!
~David D.G.
Scientists always said the universe was older than 15m years anyway.
That's a pretty big planet by the way, i wonder what it's age in metres is.
Yeah, I should be culled from this batch of extras. I really have no idea what my lines are in this scene. I mean, am I just standing around looking... er... extra-ey?
At least they didn't give me a red shirt. I got blue!
Wait. WAIT, ON THIS SHOW REDSHIRTS DRESS IN BLUE! I AM A NAMELESS SECURITY OFFICER! SHIT SHIT SOMEONE HELP ME THEY'RE GETTING OUT THE SPECIAL EFFECTS GUYS
What the hell? I'm not even sure how to start to decipher this.
Incidentally, how many years long is Earth?
You idiots are so culless. Can't even understand your own stuipid sciene!
Gather 'round, boys and girls--this is some fantastic stupid right here!
The rest of the board is pretty hilarious. Especially the "Maybe God put other planets there to distract the scientists." lol.
No, we understand our science well enough to argue for it in a coherent and intelligent manner. Do you?
With some mucking around with unit conversions it is possible to measure mass in units of distance. Starting from kilograms, multiply by G (the gravitational constant) then divide by c2. This leaves you with your mass in meters, which will be very small (the Earth's mass is about 9 millimeters).
Just thought that was semi-related.
I swear there's a form of religious dyslexia that may be soon documented. Where they can read the vauge and contradictory passages of the Bible and paraphrase them as clear and defined statements. Yet when presented with scientific information they will twist it until it makes no sense. A willful difference in approach which could be so ingrained as to be submerged enough that they don't realize they're doing it.
It could be tested, find some devote fundies willing to enter a blind study. Give them some obscure Bible passages (easy enough with fundies as they obviously don't read the Bible)and tell them they're historical records of the Netherlands or something, and some older scientific literature, or alchemy, tranfered into Shakespearian English. I predict their opinions of validity would shift because of what source they believe it's coming from.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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