Professional Idiots

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Peh said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Giant ice wall? Sounds like they've been watching too much Game of Thrones

If the giant icewall wasn't enough. There are ships patroling around it to stop people who want to see the edge of the world. Appearently to them, it's immpossible to reach the southpole....or fly over it... I'm not sure if they believe in a magnetic southpole, at all. It wouldn't work with their idiotic model of a flat earth. So, only a magnetic northpole exists. And like I said, gravity doesn't exist, but magnetism does and that's what keeps us on the ground. It doesn't make any sense, at all. 

I have had plenty of rodeo's with Flat Earthers. I am yet to receive any kind of photographic or videographic evidence of this ice-wall or glass dome.

And you know, burden of proof and all that.

As for the magnetic poles... They do believe it. Just a little differently.

Nymeria said:
It goes to show a species does not uniformly advance. Why I bought District 9's premise of the worker drones having no clue how their own ships work. If you stripped away the structures of society about 97% of us would die within a few years. People love the comfort modernity and science has given them, but most still have no clue how much or any of it works.

District 9 was actually a pretty intelligent movie once you start to break it down and analyse social structures of not just the humans, but of the aliens too.

Trying to understand science, physics and evidence is something everyone should aspire towards.
There was a Theistic debate here on the forums not long ago and one poster claimed that an aspect of quantum mechanics was "Pseudo-Physics". Which was one of the most hilarious things I have seen for a long time.
They also clearly dont see the irony when they expect evidence for one thing but faith for another.

IkePoR said:

I'm surprised this wasn't touched on in the OP.  This has to be the single most idiotic thing anyone could do.  Forget a flat earther - they aren't hurting anyone but other gullible, borderline retarded individuals. An anti-vaxer is endangering children, their own and others even if they're vaccinated.  

If only natural selection could have been more bias to these morons before they had offspring.

Flat Earthers play into all of that.
Chances are if you can disregard evidence and science and believe the Earth is flat, then you probably think vaccinations are poison.

And let's make one thing clear. Not all flat earthers are idiots. They just strongly believe what they believe because for whatever reason. And often it's because of the Bible. (Another thing it got incorrect.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmament

"Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day."

Qwark said:

I game for the larger part of my live. Yet I know what CPU, GPU and what the Motherboard do. I don't have a single clue hoe it works other than and I quote captain america for this one "It seems to run some sort of electricity" and sends positive and negative signals to a transistor which counts it and a code with 0's and 1's made which somehow makes me able to play games. I have no idea how to build computerparts or what the structural difference is between a CPU and a GPU.

I assumed that everyone would have done some basic micro-controller/robotics/electronics/programming in school. I know it was a requirement at my school 15+ years ago... But I was already passionate about such things anyway.
I used to grit my teeth when my teacher would use incorrect PC technology terms whilst teaching in my I.T. class.

As for the difference between a CPU and a GPU... The simplified explanation is that the main difference is a CPU will process information generally, sequentually. So it has a couple of large, fast cores for that task.
A GPU will process information in a parallel fashion, so it has small, slow cores, but can have thousands of them.