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Post by ka9q on Mar 30, 2011 5:00:05 GMT -4
Cars don't float? Well, we could try it with his...
Am I the only one old enough to remember the old VW Bug commercials that featured them floating? The idea was to show the precise German engineering of the door seals, or something.
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Post by Data Cable on Mar 30, 2011 6:10:46 GMT -4
...and his major reason is that "cars don't float." Soooo... the MythBusters faked it? ... Twice?
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Post by gillianren on Mar 30, 2011 14:21:57 GMT -4
You've seen the Moon Hoax episode. The MythBusters are either Them or taken in. I'd bet on Them.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Mar 30, 2011 15:40:22 GMT -4
I'm posting back and forth at another forum with someone who believes the recent tsunami never happened, that the video coming out of Japan is obvious fakes, and his major reason is that "cars don't float." I had the same discussion with someone in Hagbard's forum.
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Post by twik on Mar 30, 2011 17:27:24 GMT -4
Cars don't float? Well, we could try it with his... Am I the only one old enough to remember the old VW Bug commercials that featured them floating? The idea was to show the precise German engineering of the door seals, or something. Nope, I remember that. It skipped along like a flat rock! Seriously, there's lots of air in even a non-VW to keep a car floating for a while.
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Post by blackstar on Mar 30, 2011 18:08:40 GMT -4
Never underestimate the possible contortions. I'm posting back and forth at another forum with someone who believes the recent tsunami never happened, that the video coming out of Japan is obvious fakes, and his major reason is that "cars don't float." I suggest pointing out that if this can float half way round the planet: gcaptain.com/emma-maersk-from-shipyard-fire-to-world-records?38having a car bob a round for a few seconds is pretty trivial. Unless he doesn't believe in container ships either?
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Post by Nowhere Man on Mar 30, 2011 19:29:05 GMT -4
His answer, as far as I can make it out, is that you are expected to notice that what is shown on the video is impossible, and that will make you doubt your own reasoning, and thus condition you even better to accept this faked video and the next as well. You left off the fnord. Fred
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Post by nomuse on Mar 30, 2011 20:24:46 GMT -4
I once drove a truck across a river (well, okay, I was one of the passengers). But I'm not going to mention it there. Partly in honesty; this truck was in fact designed to swim. The other reason it that it was a U.S. Army "Gama Goat" 6-wheeled off-road vehicle, and I was in it as a member of that service.
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Post by randombloke on Mar 31, 2011 5:03:52 GMT -4
It's amazing the stuff people get into their heads and just won't kick out again. Take golf balls for a moment; apparently, golf balls don't bounce. Ever. This was announced to me as I was killing time bouncing a small white dimpled sphere commonly used in a game involving funny-shaped sticks and far-too-much acreage on a patch of concrete.
Of course, since golf balls don't bounce, whatever was bouncing couldn't possibly be a golf ball. The suggestion that the ignorant one go to a golf shop and buy a golf ball and try it was met with equal parts incredulity and shock, as if the very idea of finding stuff out for themselves was anathema.
I have never understood that mindset.
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Post by nomuse on Mar 31, 2011 5:49:19 GMT -4
Yah. That also surprises me. The reaction to "Why don't you try an experiment?" or "Why don't you look it up?" or even "Why don't you look outside?"
The reaction is almost anger...it is so quickly and firmly dismissive. Although they always try to portray their reaction as "What would be the point in looking?" their very resolve NOT to look is, well, surprising and odd.
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Post by gillianren on Mar 31, 2011 13:48:28 GMT -4
We have a school up in this part of the world named after Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, whom I believe was the one who refused to look through Galileo's telescope.
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Post by slang on Mar 31, 2011 16:52:47 GMT -4
The suggestion that the ignorant one go to a golf shop and buy a golf ball and try it was met with equal parts incredulity and shock, as if the very idea of finding stuff out for themselves was anathema. I have never understood that mindset. I guess they didn't have the balls to experiment.
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