Wiki: List of common misconceptions

[2Xtreme21]

You toe, not tow, the line.

Did you look that up with Wikipedia? If you did, well gosh, you might as well have made it up yourself. 😀

 

[shortylickens]

My friends, case in point of ignorant fucks who will still cling to what they are fed by someone they politically agree with, even with an overwhelming abundance of evidence to the contrary.

Thanks for proving you are of the 41% of retards in this country! 🙂

What the fuck is wrong with your sentence?!?
😱

 

[Brainonska511]

Bullshit!
Just because it's imperceptibly small doesn't mean that it can't be imagined... and numbers are imaginary; therefore .9repeating is NOT the same as 1

Even if, functionally, they are the same thing.

LOL at you

 

[PlasmaBomb]

It's a common misconception that alcohol kills brain cells.

Score 🙂

Bullshit!
Just because it's imperceptibly small doesn't mean that it can't be imagined... and numbers are imaginary; therefore .9repeating is NOT the same as 1

Even if, functionally, they are the same thing.

/facepalm

 

[MotionMan]

I only heard it was visible from Space, never the moon. 😵

Ditto.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

Thanks for proving you have no idea what you are talking about and also proving you never wrote a college level research paper.

Wikipedia articles are organized Google search results.

I would never use Google results or Wikipedia articles as a source for my research, but they can (and usually do) point me to citable information.

MotionMan

 

[PlasmaBomb]

I only heard it was visible from Space, never the moon. 😵

As far as I am aware, that is still untrue, as you can see the Great Pyramid from space...

 

[shortylickens]

Wikipedia articles are organized Google search results.

I would never use Google results or Wikipedia articles as a source for my research, but they can (and usually do) point me to citable information.

MotionMan

Fair enough.

And for reference, my last economics professor accepted data from Wikipedia, but not Fox News.
:hmm:

 

[El Guaraguao]

LOL.

"It is a common misconception, even among adults, that humans and dinosaurs (in the ordinary sense of the term) coexisted: According to the California Academy of Sciences, around 41% of U.S. adults mistakenly believe they co-existed.[98] The last of the dinosaurs died around 65 million years ago, after the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, whereas the earliest Homo genus (humans) evolved between 2.3 and 2.4 million years ago. "

Do you know how retarded you need to be to believe that?!

I guess 41% of Americans are retarded.

I loled.

 

[MotionMan]

As far as I am aware, that is still untrue, as you can see the Great Pyramid from space...

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/images/eol/2003/pyramids.html

MotionMan

 

[CZroe]

Time of day should not effect calorie burn off.

Time of day isn't the only thing that changes when you sleep. Your metabolism slows and food stays in your body long enough to be more thoroughly digested. Carbs that would be put to use immediately ("sugar rush!") now get converted to fat and stored.

 

[CZroe]

Why would the galaxy have to collapse into the super-massive black hole in the center? Everything in the galaxy is rotating around the center, and the same forces that keep Earth from falling into the sun would keep the galaxy from collapsing into the central black hole.

Assuming that there was equal or random distribution of matter before it collected into stars and galaxies, in order to collect together in the first place it was all trending inward already and very little of it could resist the pull forever. The mass of the balck hole WILL increase as other orbits decay into it. Not all of those orbits were already inside the orbit of the stable mass, so a stable orbit at the black hole's previous mass will become unstable and the only remaining matter will be what was once unstable and was "corrected" as the last bit of mass was added into the black hole. The only reason it's "spinning" is because it is being drawn into it and because the universe continued expanding within the mass distribution after it all began moving together.

You don't honestly think that the Earth will maintain its orbit forever, do you? The orbit is not perfect.

 

[JTsyo]

LOL.

"It is a common misconception, even among adults, that humans and dinosaurs (in the ordinary sense of the term) coexisted: According to the California Academy of Sciences, around 41% of U.S. adults mistakenly believe they co-existed.[98] The last of the dinosaurs died around 65 million years ago, after the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, whereas the earliest Homo genus (humans) evolved between 2.3 and 2.4 million years ago. "

Do you know how retarded you need to be to believe that?!

I guess 41% of Americans are retarded.

It must have been that damn Flintstones cartoon.

 

[Exterous]

It must have been that damn Flintstones cartoon.

My childhood has lied to me!

 

[Ichinisan]

Probably why your perception of black holes is quite unrealistic.

What's unrealistic? Apparently, I understand the mechanics better than you do (and I'm no physicist, this is basic NEWTONIAN physics).

A black hole has so much gravity that even the atoms themselves collapse. All other matter has gravity, so all other objects in the solar system are attracted to it (actually, all mass in the universe is attracted). The black hole gains mass and gravity as it pulls in more and more. As more galactic mass becomes concentrated at the center of a galaxy, many formerly-stable orbits will begin to decay...and eventually add to the mass at the center.

Even if you could fast-forward time to the point where all remaining stars in the galaxy have stable orbits, the black hole would still gain mass when two galaxies eventually merge. In fact, it would gain an incredible amount of mass from the other galaxy's center alone.

 

[DrPizza]

Assuming that there was equal or random distribution of matter before it collected into stars and galaxies, in order to collect together in the first place it was all trending inward already and very little of it could resist the pull forever. The mass of the balck hole WILL increase as other orbits decay into it. Not all of those orbits were already inside the orbit of the stable mass, so a stable orbit at the black hole's previous mass will become unstable and the only remaining matter will be what was once unstable and was "corrected" as the last bit of mass was added into the black hole. The only reason it's "spinning" is because it is being drawn into it and because the universe continued expanding within the mass distribution after it all began moving together.

You don't honestly think that the Earth will maintain its orbit forever, do you? The orbit is not perfect.

Right! And, you honestly don't think that the moon will orbit the Earth forever, do you? The orbit is not perfect. Eventually it will crash into the Earth. Ohhh, wait a second... the moon slowly moving farther away from the earth and will eventually (barring the sun not engulfing both) reach an equilibrium point at which it will cease moving away - nor will it return closer.

 

[Dumac]

Thanks for proving you have no idea what you are talking about and also proving you never wrote a college level research paper.

I used Wikipedia extensively as a jump-off point for every college paper.

Got A's in all my writing classes.

Why are you so silly? You have embarrassed USC (I presume) many times on this forum. They don't need any more help with that.

 

[Fritzo]

I've mentioned this to some of my steak loving buddies, and they never believe me:

"Searing meat does not "seal in" moisture, and in fact may actually cause meat to lose moisture. Generally, the value in searing meat is that it creates a brown crust with a rich flavor via the Maillard reaction."

 

[disappoint]

I've mentioned this to some of my steak loving buddies, and they never believe me:

"Searing meat does not "seal in" moisture, and in fact may actually cause meat to lose moisture. Generally, the value in searing meat is that it creates a brown crust with a rich flavor via the Maillard reaction."

What does help seal in moisture is letting it rest before cutting into it, so the juices have time to reabsorb into the meat.

 

[Cookie]

LOL.

"It is a common misconception, even among adults, that humans and dinosaurs (in the ordinary sense of the term) coexisted: According to the California Academy of Sciences, around 41% of U.S. adults mistakenly believe they co-existed.[98] The last of the dinosaurs died around 65 million years ago, after the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, whereas the earliest Homo genus (humans) evolved between 2.3 and 2.4 million years ago. "

Do you know how retarded you need to be to believe that?!

I guess 41% of Americans are retarded.

I laughed out loud when I read this thinking it can't possibly be true. Then when I read it outloud to a coworker, he said "well you don't REALLY know, do you?" 😱

 

[Brainonska511]

I laughed out loud when I read this thinking it can't possibly be true. Then when I read it outloud to a coworker, he said "well you don't REALLY know, do you?" 😱

There's a great line in Cat's Cradle about this kind of issue. There is a secretary speaking with a senior scientist - she sees and the exchange between her and the scientist:

"Magic," declared Miss Pefko.

"I'm sorry to hear a member of the Laboratory family using that brackish, medieval word," said Dr. Breed. "Every one of those exhibits explains itself. They're designed so as not to be mystifying. They're the very antithesis of magic."

"The very what of magic?"

"The exact opposite of magic."

"You couldn't prove it by me."
......

That last line from the secretary seems to fit exactly what your co-worker said.

 

[MotionMan]

I laughed out loud when I read this thinking it can't possibly be true. Then when I read it outloud to a coworker, he said "well you don't REALLY know, do you?" 😱

What is the percentage of people who still think Elvis, Bruce Lee and/or Hitler are still alive (or at least, lived long after their alleged date of death)?

There is nothing surprising about the stupidity of the human race.

People are basically stupid. Think about it: Parents spend most of their time teaching kids what NOT to do because they always want to do the stupid/dangerous thing first.

Smart people are not "naturally" smart, they have simply learned how to control their stupidity better than others.

For example, I am going to assume that you believe yourself to be smart. Think about how many times a day you have to THINK about what to do so you don?t do something stupid! That is because stupid comes naturally.

😉

MotionMan

 

[Bateluer]

What is the percentage of people who still think Elvis, Bruce Lee and/or Hitler are still alive (or at least, lived long after their alleged date of death)?

Hey, Elvis is alive. I've seen him repeated performing in Vegas. 😉

 

[Fenixgoon]

and so it begins

haha yes! i'm glad i'm not the only one who saw this 😀

 

[CZroe]

Right! And, you honestly don't think that the moon will orbit the Earth forever, do you? The orbit is not perfect. Eventually it will crash into the Earth. Ohhh, wait a second... the moon slowly moving farther away from the earth and will eventually (barring the sun not engulfing both) reach an equilibrium point at which it will cease moving away - nor will it return closer.

Are you serious? The "hold" they have on eachother only gets weaker as they move apart. It's speed is simply not right for a sustained orbit at it's mass. It will not simply move out and stabilize. An external force would have to slow it down.