Comments on: Still here http://www.mybigworldofcrap.org/2008/09/13/still-here/ I'm in my 50's, live in Canberra and these are my musings about all sorts of crap that grabs my attention Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:06:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: chosha http://www.mybigworldofcrap.org/2008/09/13/still-here/comment-page-1/#comment-2585 chosha Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:30:13 +0000 http://www.mybigworldofcrap.org/2008/09/13/still-here/#comment-2585 What scares me about these kinds of experiments is that they perform them in full awareness that they can't predict the outcome. This was also the case with the first atomic bomb test CA mentioned. It wasn't just crazy media making doomsday predictions - the scientists themselves didn't know what the result would be. I hate the fact that scientists only care about what they <i>can</i> do and never stop to think whether they <i>should</i> do it or not. And it's not just these big events either. I hate that they can genetically modify our food without even telling us. Scientists have no ethics and then congratulate themselves for it, because it's all in the name of Science. They don't even recognise how they turn this stuff into their own wacky religion. When they finally do create a black hole I hope they're standing next to it at the time, and that someone figures out how to shut it down just <i>after</i> they are sucked in. /rant What scares me about these kinds of experiments is that they perform them in full awareness that they can’t predict the outcome. This was also the case with the first atomic bomb test CA mentioned. It wasn’t just crazy media making doomsday predictions – the scientists themselves didn’t know what the result would be. I hate the fact that scientists only care about what they can do and never stop to think whether they should do it or not. And it’s not just these big events either. I hate that they can genetically modify our food without even telling us. Scientists have no ethics and then congratulate themselves for it, because it’s all in the name of Science. They don’t even recognise how they turn this stuff into their own wacky religion. When they finally do create a black hole I hope they’re standing next to it at the time, and that someone figures out how to shut it down just after they are sucked in.

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]]> By: Computer Aid http://www.mybigworldofcrap.org/2008/09/13/still-here/comment-page-1/#comment-2584 Computer Aid Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:39:55 +0000 http://www.mybigworldofcrap.org/2008/09/13/still-here/#comment-2584 I can't believe how some people panic at the slightest mention of science. I knew someone who wouldn't use a microwave oven, because she was afraid of the "radiation". I don't think she believed me when I said that you get bathed in "radiation" by switching on a light globe... or even stepping into sunlight. And then there was the panic before the first atomic bomb was tested: "it could ignite all the oxygen in the atmosphere... all the air in the world would explode in a giant fireball"... of course it didn't happen. These panic merchants watch too many science horror movies, and slept through too many science classes at school! I can’t believe how some people panic at the slightest mention of science.

I knew someone who wouldn’t use a microwave oven, because she was afraid of the “radiation”. I don’t think she believed me when I said that you get bathed in “radiation” by switching on a light globe… or even stepping into sunlight.

And then there was the panic before the first atomic bomb was tested: “it could ignite all the oxygen in the atmosphere… all the air in the world would explode in a giant fireball”… of course it didn’t happen.

These panic merchants watch too many science horror movies, and slept through too many science classes at school!

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