They say that a girl can tell if she's going to ever have sex with a guy within the first ten minutes of meeting him. I personally think thats a load of bull, but maybe we can learn a more general lesson from this. Can you actually find out certain intricate things about a person from just seeing them? A million times, yes! Prime example: Today I was driving home from dropping the youngsters off at school when I saw the most ridiculous sight. So there on Route 4-A was a whiskey-tango S.O.B., but not a normal one, a super-crazy one, more than usual. He was wearing shorts and a trench coat peddling his bicycle with training wheels...in the large pockets of his trench coat he had kittens. I think I found the craziest man in the world.
Astrobiology is mainly a field for crazy people--and, going by the "Ben Scaralia rule of Generalization" sampled above, you can basically take your pick of scientists in the field and call them a crackpot with basically perfect accuracy. This is because most people who JOIN the field in the first place do so in order to contact the aliens. These are the kinds of people who think that SETI is a worthwhile project (that one where the radio signals are sent out to contact the smart aliens). These are the kind of people who are expecting Contact.
Tangent time--I personally think Contact was one of the worst movies I have ever seen...I mean come on, the first facility is destroyed by terrorists and they just happened to be making a secret identical facility at the same time? That is THE cheapest plot device I have ever seen, and I've seen Signs...that's saying something...and then as our big climax, the experiment is all just a dream? Fuck you Robert Zemeckis!
Back on topic, I met an Astrobiologist of the typical kind this summer. Her favorite movie was Contact, she was into intelligent Extraterrestrial life, and thought SETI was one of the best ideas ever. Astrobiologists like this give a bad image to the more respectable portions of the science--the search for biotic and prebiotic compounds and possible habitable extrasolar planets. Astrobiology should be called Cosmobiology and is formally the study of the origins and evolution of life here on Earth AND elsewhere in the universe.
The reason I was thinking about this is cause her idol was Carl Sagan...and I saw this funny comic today...yes its an xkcd...but trust me, there ARE about 3-4 funny ones amidst his sad collection of computation jokes.
Done for now--take care!
"Silence and Valor"
-B
Ok first, that is a COMPLETE load of bull, as far as I can tell.
ReplyDeleteSecond, "cosmo-" is a communist prefix! :oP
And third, Carl Sagan wasn't an idiot; it's not his fault that OTHER people are crazy.
Hey the communists are just mostly evil!
ReplyDeleteand whats the bull? Which part?
oh, "a girl can tell if she's going to ever have sex with a guy within the first ten minutes of meeting him", sounds like a ridiculous idea. What girl even thinks about that within 10 minutes of meeting somebody?
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