Computers are a form of TECHNOLOGY.
If there is any science involved please tell me
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So uh, yeah... I picked this one because I need help with my magical computer issue:
Why does blood come out of my left ear every time I read one of this guy's posts?
Count yourself lucky. I get it coming out of both.
This is nothing. I had a philosophy professor tell a room full of 300 engineering students that science has not produced anything; all products are technology and technology always precedes science, never the reverse. And then gave us a multiple choice test where we had to affirm this fact or suffer the consequences.
geez, Ens, what school do/did you go to? I'm glad the engineers revolted, I think I would have had a fit. And I'm a philosophy student! Doesn't everyone know this?
Science, shmience. Everything you need to know about computers is in the bible.
Sometimes it amazes me that some people still adhere to a childish image that a scientist is a guy wearing glasses and a lab coat surrounded by test tubes and flasks and bunsen burners, spending his days mixing chemical A with chemical B to see what happens.
TDR:
If there is any science involved please tell me
Ens, please hunt down and shoot this "professor", for the good of all humanity. No one that stupid should be allowed to exist.
NonHomogenized:
Obviously computers are made from magic, just like the bullet that killed JFK, just like the reason why the Great Depression happened, why the Earth revolves around the sun, and why Jesus has been so popular.
Read the history of computers, the history of the transistor, the history of integrated circuits and the history of lasers, for a start.
The integrated circuit technology was 'reverse engineered' from samples from the Roswell UFO.
So, actually, computers come from SATAn, and yergonnaHell.
Read the rest of the thread too, it's great.
"The other day while installing some new fiber optics cables for a satellite array I overheard some coworkers talking about quarks. Quarks are supposedly tiny particles that nobody can see and nobody has any use for. So why do we know about them? What good does it possibly do us to know what a quark is? Just another example of useless science, and wasted money on the so called research needed for this great discovery. "
From wikipedia: "In particle physics, a quark (pronounced IPA: /kw??(r)k/) is one of the two basic constituents of matter (the other are the leptons). Quarks are the only fundamental particles that interact through all four of the fundamental forces."
He's got to be a troll. Who would be laying fibre optic cable and preaching against technology and science?
Dear Lord, I think my brain committed suicide. Or ran away when I read that. :P
How... what... how can anyone be that dumb ?
"technology always precedes science, never the reverse"
The transistor is a glaring disproof of that stupid assertion.
"Computers are a form of TECHNOLOGY.
If there is any science involved please tell me"
The development of the digital computer, leading to the very thing you're using, spreadingtheword? You have one man to thank:
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Alan Turing. A scientist. Also an Atheist. And a homosexual.
Not only are your internet privileges revoked (ARPANET created by the very non-Christian Department of Defence), but you're using the product of heathen knowhow, thus it is evil. And you'd better throw it away, lest you catch teh ghey spreadingtheword.
...oh, and it's OS? If it's Windows, Bill Gates is an Atheist. Linux? Linus Torvalds is an Atheist. So you'd better throw that PC away and get a Mac. Mac OSX Snow Leopard? Steve Jobs is an Atheist.
So, short of creating your own unique non-Atheist-developed OS, you're just as fucked.
This quote is too stupid to be worth commenting on.
>>dg
The windfarm thing - wouldn't that disrupt the ecology too? <<
Not relevant. There isn't enough kinetic energy in the air moving through Texas below any sensible altitude to supply the US's (to say nothing of the world's) power needs.
Now, a solar array the size of Texas might work. But then there are questions of distribution and energy storage and environmental impact.
Reminds me of my father, who worked in automobile construction. He is one of these "simple, rural, hard-working, faithful redneck guys".
He once snapped at me "What is science good for, eh? I don't need this nonsense! You academics should be forced to do REAL work!"
It was impossible to explain to this stupid dimwit that without modern thermodynamics, he would never have worked in automobile manufacturing.
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"Primary school", hah! Each of us must crawl before we walk.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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