Nice to see liberals acting like conseratives

[SlowSpyder]

No matter how many times you try to gaslight people with this ridiculously inaccurate, fabrication of what the left is, it's convincing no one but you and those who follow your twisted thinking.

I could trot out the numerous times drumpf has made blatantly racist statements, but your bubble will rebuke them, along with the people he's backed (moore comes to mind, along with sessions, and perry). Keep spinning it though. Firmly entrench yourself in drumpfs camp. Definitely the right side of history to be one spidey.

Well, it seems the OP and I came to a similar conclusion independently.... so....

 

[Moonbeam]

Of course not, private charities and churches step up to help people. Much like Chick-fil-a stepped forward to help travelers in Atlanta. You want to force the government and other taxpayers to do it for you since you don't do it on your own.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/18/chick-fil-a-feeding-stranded-atlanta-passengers-on-a-sunday/

I don't understand. Your moral values derive from an ancient time and religion where there were no democratic governments to determine who got help. You needed a work ethic to survive by farming on the land and a social network to divide up specialized tasks. People could see in front of their eyes why you needed to help people. You needed them and you needed them to need you. Now as great as life like that is, everybody left that life for Paris where one job could make you independent. No personal attachments, nobody with their nose in your business. You are trying to bring a carpenter's chest to a server station. People still understand we have to help others, but the ones we need to help we will never meet. Not only that, but the numbers in need can be massive as in some national disaster and require the kinds of tools organization and capital only a government can bring. If you think that you can put some dollars in a plate and the world problems will be solved, you're on the road to becoming a dinosaur. All the benefits that human civilization offers people in an advanced liberal society like much of Europe, where life satisfaction measures are the highest in the world and people enjoy a high standard of living for the most people are all highly socialistic and highly taxed to pay for those benefits. They have preserved the ethics of stone age people by implementing rational modern techniques. Get on board with the program. Those who do get aboard high speed trains and have universal health care. You are a moral person with the best of intentions, but your morality is out of date.

This is the problem with conservatives. They are stuck in a rut because they drive ox carts and cling to them because of words written in ancient sacred texts the societies that would benefit from that knowledge long extinct. When you worship the past and the notions that were derived there, you carry some things that are still meaningful and some that have long since made any sense. You have to take authority for yourself and stop believing every old nonsense passed from generation to generation. You have to be the authority. You have to know where to spend tax dollars. You have to vote appropriately for the age you live in. You have to cast off what is useless from the past and keep what is good. You can only do that if you learn to rationally think and never ever let the notion that something is sacred get in your way. You define sacred, not a book or a tradition. You have to be an independent analysis or a robot slave of the past.

And if you are really good at bootstrapping you can pay your high taxes and still give as you wish. Remember, you have to give not only your shirt but your coat. And you get to tax worthless scum like me who will voluntarily only give peanuts.

 

[zinfamous]

Show me in the Constitution where it says charity should be forced on citizens at the point of a gun. You and I are welcome to provide as much or as little support as we choose, you're the ones that want to remove the choice and take it by force.

I'll take arguments that 3rd graders make for 800, Alex

 

[Puffnstuff]

In the late 1800's we had the industrial revolution and I believe its about time for a financial revolution.

I'll take arguments that 3rd graders make for 800, Alex

But I thought that the whammy appeared at $200... Just pressing my luck.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Well, it seems the OP and I came to a similar conclusion independently.... so....

well there you have it then. Two of the high minded folks here came to the same conclusion independently, there's nothing more to discuss.

 

[Alpha One Seven]

Isn't that a fact. I keep finding millions of people posting there who actually believe the sky is blue just because they read that of facebook. People keep blowing this stuff out their ass like they actually knew something. But smart people like me and you know it's actually green because we saw it with our own eyes by observing through coke bottle lenses.

The sky is not blue, it allows the wavelengths of light through that register as blue. The sky is clear.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

I’m consistently amazed at how little conservatives understand the constitution, considering how often they cite it.

Great answer.

 

[Jhhnn]

The sky is not blue, it allows the wavelengths of light through that register as blue. The sky is clear.

You understand that about as well as you understand national monuments-

A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/BlueSky/blue_sky.html

 

[Gryz]

I'll explain it to the OP.

Old situation:
Democrats: "let's make the world a better place !"
Republicans: "fuck no. we want to keep everything as it is. FYGM. I don't care about others. I don't want to risk to lose something".

New situation:
Democrats: "please, let's try to not make it worse for the average person".
Republicans: "no. fuck the average person. we'll burn the world if there's a little profit in it for the 1%".

 

[repoman0]

The sky is not blue, it allows the wavelengths of light through that register as blue. The sky is clear.

It's very cute when you try to talk about science. Nice try though!

 

[Alpha One Seven]

It's very cute when you try to talk about science. Nice try though!

Even cuter that you don't understand the facts, maybe you'll believe this??


Questions About Physics

Color of the Sky
You asked:
I was wondering what color the sky is? I know that it looks blue but what is it actually?



Dear Nathalie,

This is really an excellent question with a difficult answer. I had a long discussion with one of my colleagues about this topic. I'm still not sure how best to explain the science, but let me give it a try.

First of all, think about all the things that can happen when light encounters an object. The light could be absorbed by the object. It might be reflected (like from a mirror) or diffusely scattered (like from most objects). Or, the light may be transmitted through the object (windows are a good example of this), and while the light is being transmitted, some of it may also be scattered in different directions.

The result (absorption, reflection, transmission, scattering) depends on the type of object and the wavelength of the light. In particular, for different wavelengths, the object might behave very differently. This explains how everyday objects (plants, clothes, Coke cans) have colors. These things absorb *almost* all the light that hits them, and reflect/scatter just certain combinations of wavelengths that our eyes then perceive as colors.

So what is the real color of the sky? Depends on your point of view! If I take a glass jar filled with air, it would look pretty clear and colorless. In fact the gasses that make up our atmosphere (almost all nitrogen and oxygen) are classified as "colorless" in chemistry reference books. Air transmits visible light almost completely. But nothing is *completely* transparent. If you shine white light through many miles of air (like sunlight in our atmosphere), you will notice that the air tends to scatter the bluer wavelengths and transmit the redder wavelengths. That's why the sky appears blue; it's scattering the blue portions of the sunlight.

So perhaps I should sum this all up by saying that the sky really is blue, but the air is nearly colorless. Hopefully my explanation isn't too confusing. If this answer leaves you with more questions, please don't hesitate to ask them!

Cheers,

- Craig Wiegert

 

[repoman0]

Even cuter that you don't understand the facts, maybe you'll believe this??


Questions About Physics

Color of the Sky
You asked:
I was wondering what color the sky is? I know that it looks blue but what is it actually?



Dear Nathalie,

This is really an excellent question with a difficult answer. I had a long discussion with one of my colleagues about this topic. I'm still not sure how best to explain the science, but let me give it a try.

First of all, think about all the things that can happen when light encounters an object. The light could be absorbed by the object. It might be reflected (like from a mirror) or diffusely scattered (like from most objects). Or, the light may be transmitted through the object (windows are a good example of this), and while the light is being transmitted, some of it may also be scattered in different directions.

The result (absorption, reflection, transmission, scattering) depends on the type of object and the wavelength of the light. In particular, for different wavelengths, the object might behave very differently. This explains how everyday objects (plants, clothes, Coke cans) have colors. These things absorb *almost* all the light that hits them, and reflect/scatter just certain combinations of wavelengths that our eyes then perceive as colors.

So what is the real color of the sky? Depends on your point of view! If I take a glass jar filled with air, it would look pretty clear and colorless. In fact the gasses that make up our atmosphere (almost all nitrogen and oxygen) are classified as "colorless" in chemistry reference books. Air transmits visible light almost completely. But nothing is *completely* transparent. If you shine white light through many miles of air (like sunlight in our atmosphere), you will notice that the air tends to scatter the bluer wavelengths and transmit the redder wavelengths. That's why the sky appears blue; it's scattering the blue portions of the sunlight.

So perhaps I should sum this all up by saying that the sky really is blue, but the air is nearly colorless. Hopefully my explanation isn't too confusing. If this answer leaves you with more questions, please don't hesitate to ask them!

Cheers,

- Craig Wiegert

Yeah dude, I made it through a whole lot more physics than you, trust me on that. Unfortunately, your quote here doesn’t support what you originally said and actually directly contradicts it, and you clearly don’t understand why. This is basic stuff. I’ll leave it to you to figure out where you’re wrong but I have no faith that you’ll ever get it ... public education has failed you.

 

[Paratus]

Even cuter that you don't understand the facts, maybe you'll believe this??


Questions About Physics

Color of the Sky
You asked:
I was wondering what color the sky is? I know that it looks blue but what is it actually?



Dear Nathalie,

This is really an excellent question with a difficult answer. I had a long discussion with one of my colleagues about this topic. I'm still not sure how best to explain the science, but let me give it a try.

First of all, think about all the things that can happen when light encounters an object. The light could be absorbed by the object. It might be reflected (like from a mirror) or diffusely scattered (like from most objects). Or, the light may be transmitted through the object (windows are a good example of this), and while the light is being transmitted, some of it may also be scattered in different directions.

The result (absorption, reflection, transmission, scattering) depends on the type of object and the wavelength of the light. In particular, for different wavelengths, the object might behave very differently. This explains how everyday objects (plants, clothes, Coke cans) have colors. These things absorb *almost* all the light that hits them, and reflect/scatter just certain combinations of wavelengths that our eyes then perceive as colors.

So what is the real color of the sky? Depends on your point of view! If I take a glass jar filled with air, it would look pretty clear and colorless. In fact the gasses that make up our atmosphere (almost all nitrogen and oxygen) are classified as "colorless" in chemistry reference books. Air transmits visible light almost completely. But nothing is *completely* transparent. If you shine white light through many miles of air (like sunlight in our atmosphere), you will notice that the air tends to scatter the bluer wavelengths and transmit the redder wavelengths. That's why the sky appears blue; it's scattering the blue portions of the sunlight.

So perhaps I should sum this all up by saying that the sky really is blue, but the air is nearly colorless. Hopefully my explanation isn't too confusing. If this answer leaves you with more questions, please don't hesitate to ask them!

Cheers,

- Craig Wiegert

You do realize you’ve just supported the first half of the theory of how greenhouse gasses work in a planetary system.

 

[Alpha One Seven]

Yeah dude, I made it through a whole lot more physics than you, trust me on that. Unfortunately, your quote here doesn’t support what you originally said and actually directly contradicts it, and you clearly don’t understand why. This is basic stuff. I’ll leave it to you to figure out where you’re wrong but I have no faith that you’ll ever get it ... public education has failed you.

I certainly do not trust that you know more about physics or and science than I do, trust me on that.
I said the sky is clear, as does the article. QQ more.
The light that reaches the eye appears blue because of the wavelengths of blue light.
It doesn't really matter if you understand it or not though, Merry Christmas.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

I certainly do not trust that you know more about physics or and science than I do, trust me on that.
I said the sky is clear, as does the article. QQ more.
The light that reaches the eye appears blue because of the wavelengths of blue light.
It doesn't really matter if you understand it or not though, Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas to you too!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...going-to-be-saying-merry-christmas-again.html

Yet another Trump campaign promise kept.

 

[Paratus]

I certainly do not trust that you know more about physics or and science than I do, trust me on that.
I said the sky is clear, as does the article. QQ more.
The light that reaches the eye appears blue because of the wavelengths of blue light.
It doesn't really matter if you understand it or not though, Merry Christmas.

Happy Holidays!

 

[Alpha One Seven]

It's nice to see Christmas in the White house again and not a generic 'Holiday Tree' crap.

We need to remember the reason for the season after all.
Even our money says 'In God We Trust'
I doubt the atheists shun the use of it though. lol

 

[Victorian Gray]

Merry Christmas to you too!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...going-to-be-saying-merry-christmas-again.html

Yet another Trump campaign promise kept.

 

[Victorian Gray]

It's nice to see Christmas in the White house again and not a generic 'Holiday Tree' crap.

We need to remember the reason for the season after all.
Even our money says 'In God We Trust'
I doubt the atheists shun the use of it though. lol

Wonderful exhibit of bad taste.

 

[Alpha One Seven]

Obama who?
Must be some 'has been' 'do nothing' guy. Completely irrelevant.

 

[Alpha One Seven]

Wonderful exhibit of bad taste.

LOL right, stay away from Rockefeller Center.

 

[Alpha One Seven]

The Red Room.

The Blue Room

 

[Victorian Gray]

LOL right, stay away from Rockefeller Center.

I've been a couple of times. Was not impressed.

 

[ivwshane]

It's nice to see Christmas in the White house again and not a generic 'Holiday Tree' crap.

We need to remember the reason for the season after all.
Even our money says 'In God We Trust'
I doubt the atheists shun the use of it though. lol

https://www.glamour.com/gallery/final-white-house-holiday-decorations-2016-michelle-obama

 

[imported_tajmahal]

Merry Christmas to Obama too ! Bless him and his family.