You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

- Scott Adams

You wat[sic] you lose.

Conspiracy of Science - Earth is in fact growing


So... Where did all the extra mass come from as the Earth expanded? Where did the water of the oceans come from? If there's no subduction, why are there earthquakes? What would be causing it?

Why has it been measured by satellites that the Earth is actually shrinking slowly? (Due to thermal contraction as the Earth's core slowly cools.) According to expanding Earth, the expansion is increasing exponentially.

Who really believes this stuff?

To quote the image:

I'm going to create man and woman with original sin. The I'm going to impregnate a woman with myself as her child, so I can be born. Once alive, I will kill myself as a sacrifice to myself. To save you from the sin I originally condemned you to.

Ta dah!!!

Ok, read this. It's one of those things that will make you say "wat?"[sic]:

Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows:

Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed.

They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine.

They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors.

They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond traveling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours.

They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour.

They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York.

They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive.

Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall traveling at miles per iron, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man.

This happened near Buenos Aires, Argentina on February 10th, 2010. There's no sound to the video.

Raw Video: Train Just Misses Man on the Tracks

I can't say I would have done the same. I'm not calling the guy that saved the van stupid. That guy is to be commended for his selfless act.

I am saying the driver of the van was stupid to stay in the van. A van (that obviously has mechanical issues) is not worth your life. I would not have pushed the van out of the way because I would have expected the van driver to do the smart thing and jump out!

here's a Venn diagram showing how stupidity, politics, and religion overlap.



The funny thing is, I already had blog tags for all 3.

...It doesn't know either.


Transcribed:

April 20th, 1994
Dear Mrs. [blank],

You may already know this, but in case Alex has neglected to tell you, I am assigning him to detention for one hour this Friday, April 22nd. The reason is as follows:

Alex consistently defied me. During class he contradicted me numerous times when I insisted that the length of one kilometer was greater than that of one mile. Every other student in class accepted my lesson without argument, but your son refused to believe what I told him, offering such rebuttals as "You're lying to the class," and commanding other students to challenge my curriculum.

Although he was correct, Alex's actions show a blatant disregard for authority, and a complete lack of respect for his school. In the future, Alex would be better off simply accepting my teachings without resistance.

Please see to it that your son understands this.

Regards,
[blank]

This is what happens when a group of popular YouTubers keep getting pushed to outdo themselves. They try unsafe things...

Is It A Good Idea To Microwave AN AIRBAG!?!


That was a piece of the glass revolving plate from the microwave that shot out and broke their door less than half a second after Jory was clear. Now you know that it's a very bad idea to microwave an airbag. As if there were any question before...

...And ignore the label that says to check for holes or tears.

We've all had those moments of stupidity.

Lessons Of Stupidity

NASA friggin' erased the original moon landing footage! What's going to fuel the renewed conspiracy theorists even more is Hollywood has the backups.

I tell you what... It was bad enough before with all these people saying we didn't actually land on the moon. Now this? Come on NASA, I thought you were too good to make such stupid mistakes...

*sigh* Damnit... NASA, I am disappoint [sic].

So I had a couple of comments that were just the same letter repeated over and over with no spaces between them. It caused the comment to extend way beyond the side of the site. I deleted those comments, but I also fixed the problem.

Now in the event of an asinine comment like that, a scrollbar will appear instead. I tell you... You've got to idiot proof everything. I'll make a comment to this post to demonstrate what I'm talking about.

Also, starting tomorrow I will start seriously posting photos from my vacation a while back. You're in for a treat!

Well, it's a good thing my vacation doesn't take me to Hawaii. Judging by Google Maps, I'd be screwed...

Of particular interest is direction number 42, outlined in red: Kayak across the Pacific Ocean 2,756 miles.

Yesterday Air Force One (the US President's jet) was seen flying low over the New York skyline. The intent was to get photos of it passing over the skyline and Statue of Liberty for postcards and such. Similar photos have been taken at other national landmarks such as Mount Rushmore.

What's the point of NASA even having a vote to name Node 3 for the ISS? They chose "Tranquility", despite the name being in 8th place. They didn't even chose the most voted-for official option of "Serenity".

The write-in "Colbert" took first place. As a consolation prize to all the now-disgruntled majority voters, they named the treadmill COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill). In my opinion, as long as the write-in wasn't vulgar they should have gone with it. Node 3 should have been named Colbert (despite my vote of Xenu).

If you don't want a write-in name to win, don't give the option of a write-in. If you don't want the most popular choice to win, don't have a vote on it. Simple. It just pisses people off when you have a vote on something, then disregard the result.

I mean, they chose the 8th place name. The vote was pointless. Way to go, NASA.

FAIL

Seriously, when you think about it... A giant bunny hiding eggs makes more sense for Easter. Perhaps that's why Easter is the way it is today.

Yak and the Story Of Easter

[ ALERT! THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. ]

Caution! Do not believe anything you read or are told today. Not even this¹.

[ THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Master Marf. ]

^1: The crafty people will realize this sets up a paradox. Just like the "This statement is false" statement.

Truer words were never spoken...

Ok, we all know (I hope) that noting bad will happen if you don't forward these to everyone in your address book. We also know (again, I hope) that nothing good will happen to you, either. That is to say these chain-letter emails have absolutely no power or influence over your luck, health, love life, finances or otherwise. So why send them? Is it that they are mildly amusing to you? Or is it that you received this annoying piece of crap and had to inflict it upon others?

Putting aside the fact they are annoying for a moment, there is a tangible downside to these. It's called spam. You see, each person these are sent to gets their email address tacked on to the message. Somewhere down the line this will get sent to someone that runs a spambot. They will extract the email addresses from the To:, Fw:, Cc:, and From: fields (and any list that spilled into the body of the message) and enter those into his little spambot and share (or sell) the list with all his spambot friends. Next thing you know, everyone the chain-letter email has ever been sent to is getting a lot more spam in their inbox.

The same thing happens to any email that keeps getting forwarded and sent around like those cute little joke emails. Oh, you know the type. They usually are filled to the brim with lame jokes and animated gif images.

So please, do everyone a favor and stop forwarding such things. But if you absolutely must send an email to multiple people, please use the bcc: field instead of the Cc: field. At least that way you won't send everyone the entire list of emails.