#outdated science

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Professor Einstein has proposed that no one can outrun a beam of light. Harrumph, I say!

Transversing the Luminiferous Æther

Exceeding the speed of light is trivial once you understand that this “Universal Speed Limit” is caused by what is known to scientists as the “Doppler Effect.”

The common Doppler stands between 12”-15” tall and rides about on electromagnetic beams. Being exceptionally shy, they use their eponymous effect to slow down those who approach their velocity, so as to avoid drawn-out conversation with strangers.

The Doppler detects these velocities using telepathy. So, there are 4 essential ingredients to overcoming professor Einstein’s so-called “limit:”

Lead Helmet: for blocking telepathic beams

Turtle: to provide slow thoughts

Swimwear: for swimming in the fluid Æther

Bromine: for Consistency

Once the superluminal has been achieved, it is essential to remember that you will reach your destination before anyone sees you arrive, which may cause existential scheduling complications.

This may become problematic at dinner parties, as the host may feel obligated to set additional places for your numerous light echoes, disrupting their dinner plans.

However, as such velocities reverse the river of time, you may simply go back and tell yourself where you are going to be before you arrive. Simply remember to inform the host that you are not an additional guest, but a herald from the future, and have as such already eaten.

If a fish fork is not served, a salad fork may be used in its place, unless salad is served as the first course. It is impolite to ask for an additional fork unless soup is also served in which case the host be subject to “Kingston’s Rule”

Dinner conversation should pique the interest but not dwell upon the controversial. A smoking jacket is always appropriate.

[Source]

#Unreality #Aether #outdated science #steampunk #funny #Dresden Codak #for science!

[markscherz]

🐸🚨New Frog Just Dropped!🚨🐸

Meet the ✨Most Beautiful Tree Frog✨, Guibemantis pulcherrimus, a new species described by my colleagues and me in the journal Zootaxa this week. The scientific name 'pulcherrimus' literally means 'most beautiful'. It's a close relative of Guibemantis pulcher (just 'beautiful', ha!), but has more little spots and less pronounced lateral blotches. It's found in the northeast of Madagascar, where it lives in Pandanus screw-palms.

#zoology #science #animals #beautiful #frogs #Guibemantis #Guibemantis pulcherrimus #the most beautiful frog #like if you agree #reblog if you disagree #save as PDF and email to your grandmother to share the good news #fax to your nearest Bureau of Outdated Technology to make sure they don't miss out

[darkwood-sleddog]

how many of you have trained a psychiatric service dog and how did that go for you? asking for a family member and also because man some of the service dog programs are REALLY really really into alpha & dominance theory which....puke.

#dogblr #dog behavior #i don't know much about the insular service dog world #however i do believe we should still be training service animals with current behavioral science #and it does not bring me comfort thinking my family member could be trapped into using outdated/harmful theories

[ace-aro-sasha-nein]

I think all psychonauts games are really unique and well crafted etc, but the first game touched on a very specific experience of mine that literally no other media has been able to capture. You play as a young character that is deeply enthusiastic about an institution that appears to be dying. (The camp’s buildings are decrepit, the adult supervision seems a bit checked out, a kid could loose their brain and nobody would think they were, like, that different from normal, the guy who flips burgers at the lodge is an old and well respected agent, one person has set up a sparsely furnished lab underneath an old (rather unethical) government research facility, said facility is left unattended to the point that kids can trap each other in there without anyone noticing… ) idk the whole camp is falling apart a bit, and certainly doesn’t bode well for the Psychonauts as a whole, and I would have loved if the Psychonauts had felt more on-its-last-legs in psychonauts 2. But games are not only built for me!

#midwestern universities be like #esp the research science portions #like ‘oh yeah we made some of the greatest breakthroughs of the last century here’ #but then whole wings sit abandoned #and there’s tech that was cutting edge in the 80s sitting in the back of disused lecture halls collecting dust #and you’re tiny so you’re like ‘I wanna be a cool scientist so I can use a mass spectrometer’ #but you’re thinking about the outdated-ass cylinder that sits in the basement and has to quench every so often w/ giant billows of steam #these things can fit on your desk nowadays #psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #Sasha nein #razputin aquato #dogen boole #ford cruller #tagging all the characters I alluded to

[st-turbulentic]

Scott Clarke was progressively asked increasingly elaborate *hypothetical* questions over the span of three years by a group of children and a mother of one said child.

Not to mention all of the shit in town he would have witnessed during those things— and now. He’s living in a town where everything is alllllllll blown up???

Scott Clarke needs to be in season five.

Imagine him and Murray? Best friends? Husbands? Boyfriends? Soulmates?

All of the above: Yes.

#imagine how cute it would be if Scott was just there and to the part he said wow you’ve all grown up so much #and then #I just keep thinking about how outdated his information is and how it would be hilarious #bring Scott Clarke back for season 5 of ST #it’s been said before but still #Scott Clarke x Murray bauman #I propose their ship name: clarkman - scurray #or as a joke— ninjascience #because science teacher and #my fingers are like arrows my arms like iron my feet like spears #stranger things textposts #stranger things #murray bauman #scott clarke #trblntc

[fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-liar]

Yeah, the MCU is cool and all, but the John Hughes Cinematic Universe chews it up for breakfast and spits it out on the regular.

#the breakfast club #ferris bueller's day off #sixteen candles #(<- i don't really like that one because it's horribly outdated but it still belongs) #pretty in pink #weird science #home alone #planes trains and automobiles #and probably more i don't know #John Hughes #shermer Illinois cinematic universe #John Hughes cinematic universe #the way he carried the teen genre in the 80s singlehandedly #thank you Mr Hughes for setting like all of your movies in the northern suburbs of Chicago... #I appreciate being able to identify like all the settings of your movies #also the post credit scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off? fucking iconic dare I say better than the MCU's scenes

[menderash]

just checked a radfem's blog before blocking and one of their most popular posts is them going full HP Lovecraft on the very concept of mixed race people as well as a side of antisemetism. normal day in terf land, I presume.

#it was just a picture of mixed and jewish ppl and 'lmao melting pot' #radfems love strictly enforced binaries and outdated race science so. makes sense. #presumably bc all the people pictured were conventionally unattractive? #mocking multiracial women for being multiracial. win for radical feminism.

[mourningmaybells]

no longer in college but they need to fire art professors and lecturers for bringing up twitter discourse. you're gonna assign me readings then go on a rant about cartoon network fans and things i need to be on twitter to know? die.

#art major but i had more fun in science and lab. thus is my curse #i miss those outdated i haz a cheesburger meme and cats in lab coats those guys kept using. anything but online discourse

[blueberry-beanie]

it seems my obsession about a certain satirist is a double-edged sword

#i may waste a lot of time on very dumb things because of him #but in the next moment i start researching obscure topics #to the point that n searches for some transcripts at her university #today i was at the new library nearby (i should have gone earlier but i am always scared of new places and procrastinate) #disappointed by the history science and economy sections which are outdated or too simplistic (but i found a cool fact-checking book still! #currently dug up some book from 1986 written by dieter hildebrandt who was a famous satirist and honestly after some pages? seems good #not sure i've ever had an obsession that led to so much reading and researching so i guess it's a good thing and excuses the waste of time

[un-pearable]

i get normal amounts of heated about badly written multiple choice questions

#question was ‘kids today consume how much soda compared to milk?’ #that one semester when i had two classes using inquizitive gave me too much power bc it allowed me to appeal ‘wrong’ answers if i could #explain why. and now whenever i get mad i write a rebuttal even if it’s for a single point JUST bc i expect better from my professors #earlier this summer semster this same prof had a question about ‘which institution codified race in the us’ #and the option were ‘academia religion or the government’ and . fucjin cmon. that is NOT. A MCQ. THATS A WHOLE ESSAY #ITS ALL OF THEM IN VARYING CAPACITIES #but i put academia bc i’m an anthropologist and im painfully aware of the impact my field has had what with phrenology and race science and #the truly horrific shit we did to people. and i got it wrong #i held myself back from ranting then but i am allowing myself this frustrated response bc this assignment is specifically a #‘search the internet for sources!’ one. so girlie your sources are outdated as fuck i am GOING to provide you with updated links

[mystacoceti]

Susan Sontag was reading science fiction in the 60s, like, post-Clarke, -Aasimov, -Sturgeon, contemporary with those guys and Tiptree, Delany, Zelazny, Le Guin etcetera etcetera ‐‐ and the science fiction she sometimes mentions in her journals and essays is still the most stereotypical 40s pulp "space ship crashlands on planet"

#people have to choose how to distribute their time and effort of course. of course #In her essay on pornographic literature she makes an offhand defense of science fiction that is so outdated to the genre that the trope+ #+she was specifically defending had already been parodied by sf writers

[the-multiverse-theory]

mutuals. babygirls. tell me something interesting. i wanna know about stuff you find cool

#cat’s thoughts #tell me literally anything show me a cool bug your favorite fun fact from an outdated science book whatever you can think of #i’m bored and the school wifi is being shit so me and my classmates are struggling to watch the brazil game :(

[viovio]

vincent edgeworths dumb fucking stupid ass how'd he become the lawyer when his ocean facts are outdated by like 60 years. all the ace attorneys would kill him with rocks

#/j btw i know how hard it is to look at geographical science and calculate how the ocean levels #would rise or fare in like. 2077 and how the dinoverse's connected continent(?) works #and also its so funny to see vincent just somehow get the most outdated info on the ocean. albert materializes there like youre wrong btw #speak iza