L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 They do, for a given value of "don't." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 * Cancer spits. * Revisionist tripe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Or would you prefer that someone actually thought that parsec was a time unit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Meh, I've had people think that parsec was a liqueur, like triple sec. Those people aren't science fiction writers, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Lucas isn't either. He's softer on the science than a really soft thing that is very soft indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 One of my proudest moments was when I caught a mistake on CSI. They were looking at an IR spec and saying "This confirms the presence of acetone at the crime scene" and I blurted out, "No it doesn't! There's no carbonyl peak at 1700!" My roommates looked at me funny. I've found an error in The Big Bang Theory. I know you don't watch it but Marcus does, which is why I'm posting. For LM: it the episode when Sheldon teaches Penny "a little physics" and mentions Aristotle and motion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Plato. Aristotle. Socrates. Morons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 I am reminded of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Meh, I've had people think that parsec was a liqueur, like triple sec. Those people aren't science fiction writers, though. Yeah, that was a case of Lucas just Not Doing The Research. I've heard it described as 'a neglect of facts of Meyerian proportions'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Imagine if the old Greek guys had stumbled upon the Scientific Method! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Plato. Aristotle. Socrates. Morons. Really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Imagine if the old Greek guys had stumbled upon the Scientific Method! Well. they should have. The Hippocratic approach to treating disease was pragmatic in treating causes & testing medicine. It is one small-ish step from that to applying it to Greek science. They already had a theory of atoms And they had Aristotle's description of what a science is in the Organon, as well has a whole system of scientific knowledge. The Greek "big bang theory" was Plato's Timaeus They had mathematics, geometry and astronomy. As well as Pythagoras' point-of-view that nature can be described in mathematical terms. The pieces were all there, just waiting to be assembled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Really? From The Princess Bride, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 I just remembered the Sicilian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 From The Princess Bride, of course. Oh...for a moment I thought it was a personal opinion...because...no attribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 I thought the attribution unnecessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Ah, okay, fair enough. Also touché. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 I just remembered the Sicilian.1. e4 c5 A pretty effective opening, but you have to be up on it; it's double-edged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Black on the 4-4 star point. That's Go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Figured you for more of a hnefatafl guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Always been a bit of Japanophile. Apart from the raw fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 I remember you had a nice personal photo on your profile of yourself in your kendo gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 Well. they should have. The Hippocratic approach to treating disease was pragmatic in treating causes & testing medicine. It is one small-ish step from that to applying it to Greek science. They already had a theory of atoms And they had Aristotle's description of what a science is in the Organon, as well has a whole system of scientific knowledge. The Greek "big bang theory" was Plato's Timaeus They had mathematics, geometry and astronomy. As well as Pythagoras' point-of-view that nature can be described in mathematical terms. The pieces were all there, just waiting to be assembled. From the Hippocratic Corpus, Precepts (although Precepts seems to have been written 1st or 2nd century AD) "In medicine one must pay attention not to plausible theorising ("logismos") but to experience and reason ("logos") together.... I agree that theorizing is to be approved, provided that it is based on facts, and systematically makes its deductions from what is observed but conclusions drawn from unaided reason can hardly be serviceable; only those drawn from observed fact." Seems like an early scientific method, do others agree? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 The beginnings, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 I remember you had a nice personal photo on your profile of yourself in your kendo gear. Ah yes, from an outdoors training session in Umeå's city park; my first time in armor. Back in the days I had a full head of hair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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