Someone said:
But let's not be too hard on the porfessor.
If that guy's an actual professor, then it cannot be as hard to become one as previously suspected. I think I'll have to become one. I'll have a couple of days off after christmas, that should be more than enough.
Dr. Awkward said:
Because it demonstrates that a large proportion of people aren't smart enough to tell the silly beliefs from the non-silly beliefs. If they're believing in vampires or seances or bigfoot, that's harmless enough, but if they start believing in things that might end up getting people hurt or shaping public policy in nonsensical directions, that's not so harmless. Imagine if most people believed that people with green eyes were demons, despite the lack of any proof to back this up. It would be a short and brutal life for green-eyed babies, and for no reason other than stupidity.
Well, I could not start a lengthy monologue about harmful, dangerous beliefs, but that sort of thing is forbidden by board policy. Suffice to say, there are many things far more harmful than believing in vampires, and many of those beliefs are quite wide-spread.
Mangrum said:
Oboy, another scientific theory debunking the existence of a monster, which doesn't seem to grasp that the "movie version" of the monster -- which the study is usually about -- has precious little to do with the version of the creature people actually believed in.
And it's not even every movie's version, either.
Rel said:
Using similar math you can prove that a single pregnant female hamster can produce progeny that will outweight the cosmos in a remarkably short span of time.
Which, coincidentally, was the basis of the world I submitted for the WotC setting search a few years ago. I'm still bitter that I didn't at least make it to the top three.
Uhu, so Boo settled down and started a family, with disastrous results?
Care to elaborate on your idea?
greywulf said:
If vampires exist, therefore mathematics doesn't.
Simple, really.
Which explains why saying "Count, Dracula" got him so annoyed. He can't.
That's hilarious!
Cthulhudrew said:
Why would you have to apply force to the floor in order to walk? If, as one presumes, ghosts are able to float/fly, couldn't they simply float so near to the floor as if to appear to be walking?
Yeah, I find this stuff funny as well: Here we have entities that seem to defy everything we take for granted, but I'll be damned if they don't pay some respect to gravity!
(I know it's off topic, but I say they walk the ground - or the idea of the ground or something. They don't do this because of any physical laws, but out of habit. Once they shed their mortal coil, they're no longer subject to natural laws. Instead, they're subject to supernatural laws. It's only logacal.)
