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Gaaark
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Linux user. Tries to keep feeding the brain with stuff. Husband and father of a young lady and a younger son who has autism/is autistic... that nut didn't fall far from this nut-tree, I'll tell ya: he gets it honestly. Now if only he'd sleep..............
I believe that God gave us the science, curiousity and intelligence to one day conclusively prove that God does not exist.
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Linux user. Tries to keep feeding the brain with stuff. Husband and father of a young lady and a younger son who has autism/is autistic... that nut didn't fall far from this nut-tree, I'll tell ya: he gets it honestly. Now if only he'd sleep..............
I believe that God gave us the science, curiousity and intelligence to one day conclusively prove that God does not exist.
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Tuesday October 23, 18
01:54 AM
Or at least someone smarter than me does:
http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/
Job opening to work on actual science instead of hand-wavy, platform nine and three quarters, oompa-loompa dark matter magic.
There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing
Is it raining, is it snowing
Is a hurricane a-blowing
Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing
Is the grisly reaper mowing
Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing
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innovate, v.:
To annoy people.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:45AM
Gaark, you are Canadian. Keep that in mind. There are worse fates. . . .
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:27AM (3 children)
Time to ram my dark matter chocolate cock into Gaaark's tight ass. You won't think it's magic when it's cumming through the crimson event horizon of your boy snatch.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday October 23 2018, @10:55AM (2 children)
Wow...good one....
...for a sixth grader.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:34PM
Gotta admit this is probably the first time someone has thrown shade over dark matter skepticism. A lame first, but hey you could spin it into a fun story with a lot of embellishing. "Oh man, one time I got shit for posting a job opportunity! Some poor sap regressed to the 6th grade over the idea that dark matter might not be real!" etc. etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @06:23AM
Yes... your autism keeps you at a sixth grade level.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:47PM (7 children)
Read a week or two ago that he got a big ole government grant to explore using QI for propulsion purposes. This would be him looking for folks to help him figure it out.
One beef though...
Not much planet-saving going on even if he manages a fuel-free engine. It'll still require chemical power to get out of the atmosphere and an engine used outside the atmosphere doesn't impact the planet at all.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday October 23 2018, @03:10PM
He has a TED talk where he says at the end about in the future you could use QI to fuel-lessly launch from Earths surface.
Anyways, it's more interesting and realistic than dark matter, to me.
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(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Tuesday October 23 2018, @03:30PM (3 children)
I am not 100% on his whole situation, I am certainly not a physics postdoc, but my understanding is that he hopes to eventually be able to escape orbit on pure QI, as well as perform terrestrial tasks. Also Buzzy, you shouldn't forget the incalculable gain removing some fragment of humanity from the surface of the planet would be.
One thing I haven't seen, and didn't find in a cursory search, is what his detractors say about his theories. I can find plenty of people who complain that a quack got DARPA money, but nowhere a refutation of his ideas directly. Frankly dark matter has always seemed hand wavy to me, but he seems to be regarded as a fool by and large, and I would like to know why. I fear it may be a domain knowledge thing where I don't know the right key words to find the objections or I may not comprehend them (yet).
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:38PM (1 child)
I think it's a tenure thing: if your job is to work on dark matter or string theory, that's what pays your bills. Someone come up with something that may take money from you and "He's an idiot!" because.
Einstein was called a quack too, for a while, until they decide his theory WAS better.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:36PM
But Science! See the big S? Established doctrine or bust!
I kid, little science is great, big Science is the domain of those who are just raging against organized religion ;)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 23 2018, @10:43PM
That's not a gain, that's a loss. You will likely never recover their mass in the appropriate elements if you ship them off. It's far more green to shoot them and use them as fertilizer.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:01PM (1 child)
an engine used outside the atmosphere doesn't impact the planet at all.
Depends on the warhead(s)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 24 2018, @03:10PM
Damn, and me without mod points.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 23 2018, @03:17PM (3 children)
Rather, Mike has an idea. And, he's looking for someone smart enough to make the idea real.
I guess that's how a lot of other people have gotten rich and famous.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:54PM (2 children)
It is possible, the guy's credentials and writing style are a bit suspicious. However I don't see how this would make him rich or famous (infamous more likely) unless his theories actually work. The theory isn't really tied to his current job so that doesn't really fly either, https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/mike-mcculloch [plymouth.ac.uk]
Probably would have been safer to make some Mr. Bean jokes.
His intro to the book is a little wonky too
So simple math stuff included to try and persuade people with "look you can do it too!" and numerous cartoons by the author? I mean add cartoons fine, but for an intro this reads like "please buy my book it'll be fun!"
Anyway, all that doesn't really matter as it could be idiosyncrasies of a scientist. Reviews by other PhD physicists is what we want, your commentary reeks of "scientists push lies for money!" Sure that does happen, but using that reasoning is the same as Trump's "all Mexican immigrants are rapists, thieves, and murders."
You might ask "why make this political?" and I will say "I didn't". It isn't my fault Trump is such a perfect on going example of stupidity and ignorance :D
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @02:14AM (1 child)
So, prove him wrong!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @08:08PM
I'm more interested in proving him right actually, I'm just quite skeptical these days. After watching his TED talk he really does seem genuine. Sadly I don't even know where to begin to prove his theory.