So, my favorite Wingnut emails me a story about how people are becoming more skeptical

[Jackpine Radical]

about global warming. Here was my response:

That's a great idea! Science by popular vote.

After they decide against global warming, maybe they could consider rounding pi off to an even 3 so we don't have to deal with all those little numbers after the decimal: 3.14159....

And for a followup maybe they could decide to go after the Gravitational Constant, which is now 6.67300 × 10^-11 m3 kg^-1 s^-2

All they would have to do is get the majority to go along with changing that little superscript "-11" above the "10." If they change it to a -12, then everything will get ten times lighter, so people could jump higher and it would cost a lot less to move freight. Just think of all the energy we could save with one simple little change in the law!

[eleny]

1. _

[JuniperLea]

2. Can we change the boiling point of water too?

100 Farenheight... we know now one here wants to change to Centigrade.

Let's outlaw words with more than two syllables while we're at it.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Does that mean that the law about 2 syllables

can't use the word "syllable" lest it outlaw itself?

[JuniperLea]

8. You got it!

Beats. The word syllable will no longer exist... words now have beats instead.

Or... that word is not real. All words have one beat. It is hard to talk that way.

[Darth_Kitten]

4. snappy comeback!!

Bravo! :D

[glitch]

5. Let's vote the chemistry of the oil spill to be the chemistry of gulf sea water. Snap! no problem!

Let's vote all the rigworkers, sea and marsh life unharmed and alive again!

I like it, thanks Jackpine.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. !

:applause:

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Body temperature should be 100 degrees.

It's too hard to read 98.6 on those little thermometers.

[treestar]

9. We could get rid of AIDS!

Let's just vote that it not exist.

[readmoreoften]

10. +100. I never liked AIDS at all. I think it's high time we started disagreeing with it.

[daleo]

12. Cancer, you're outa here too

Also, let's bring the stars closer, to make inter-stellar travel easier.

[mindwalker_i]

11. Hey, let's start a campaign to change the speed of light

Either much faster or much slower would be really cool! Actually, maybe we could apply speed zones, so it's faster or slower in different areas.

I can just imagine what the lobbyists would do with this.

[Incitatus]

13. People believing the Earth was flat didn't make that true either. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

14. What??!

Are you trying to say the Earth's not flat??

[NutmegYankee]

17. Blasphemy! nt

[Arugula Latte]

28. Burn the witch!

:evilgrin:

[eridani]

15. Be a REAL American. Demand that English be our official national language--

--and that base 10 be our official number system.

[NutmegYankee]

16. Base 10! Ha - No Frenchy Socialist International (SI) units for this true American!

:evilgrin:

(Yes, I know what SI really means)

[Wednesdays]

18. Base 10, except when one has to be a consumer

Then, everybody has to think in base 12 and base 16 and base 128...and try to figure out prices per ounce on a 6-and-a-quarter ounce can of tuna.

[wizstars]

26. yeah, all that hexadecimal computer stuff--outa here!

[krispos42]

19. Changing pi to exactly 3 would also put it in line with the Bible

II Chronicles 4:2.

I'm sure your freeper friend will appreciate that.





Science, like God, exists whether anybody believes it or not.



(And if God doesn't exist, he doesn't exist regardless of whether anybody believes it or not)

[HillWilliam]

30. "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God,"...

"for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Rest well, Douglas Adams...

[Jim Lane]

20. My physics is rusty but I think you're wrong about gravity.

You write:

All they would have to do is get the majority to go along with changing that little superscript "-11" above the "10." If they change it to a -12, then everything will get ten times lighter, so people could jump higher and it would cost a lot less to move freight.

All freight would still have the same mass, so it would still require the same energy to move it laterally. Reducing the gravitational constant would change only the downward force of gravity that has to be overcome in lifting or hoisting an object.

I'd guess that the vast majority of expenses incurred in moving freight don't relate to lifting.

But, yes, we could all jump higher.

[Jackpine Radical]

21. Well, yes, mass & inertia would remain the same

but I think friction would be decreased. It's easier to drag a 1-lb. weight around on the sidewalk than a 10-lb. weight.

[wizstars]

24. well, we can vote all that complicated crap out too....

...since we're being democratic about it. And the moon having 1/6th of earth's gravity--that's out too. We don't need all that Newton & Einstein stuff anyway. and especially Darwin!

[rbixby]

27. Well as long as we're going by consensus

I say we vote masses down as well, and friction

[dem mba]

22. the skeptics are always moving the goalposts

but I believe their argument is that yes, global temperatures are rising, but no, it's not caused by man.

That's a little different than what you're trying to argue against.

[Jackpine Radical]

31. This guy is always sending me stories about freak snowstorms & cold snaps

as evidence that GW is hooey. I always point out that the main effect of adding energy to a chaotic system is to increase the apparent chaos, but...

[Soylent Brice]

23. lotta zingers today.

nicely done, although, i'm sure your reply went way the hell over their head.

[HughMoran]

25. lol

good response...

[harun]

29. We shouldn't call it global warming. The CO2 problem could just as

easily throw us in to another ice age. We just don't know. They can't refute humans throwing the CO2 levels way out of the norm.

[malaise]

32. ROFL

Brilliant :rofl: