*squirts chocolate milk out the nose*

I think he's been drinking that polluted water from Lake Okeechobee. It looks like chocolate milk I hear.

I love the chocolate milk!

They should make a version with chocolate milk, so kids can re-create the scene from Trainspotting!

Great, he can make a complex color changing chemical reaction. I can't even get the mix right when making chocolate milk.....

Exactly...alright then...so it's not just me.>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^Grimm:
Wait a minute...I thought you were supposed to sit facing the tank.
Ya, that's why there's a shelf where you can put your comic books and your chocolate milk, and you got the flusher right here.

>> ^Grimm:

Wait a minute...I thought you were supposed to sit facing the tank.
Ya, that's why there's a shelf where you can put your comic books and your chocolate milk, and you got the flusher right here.

@1:16 I spit chocolate milk shake all over my keyboard and monitor.

I couldn't get "The Onion's" embed to work properly (I'll have to notify lucky that they use a new odd format or something...), so for now I'll use this one... Sorry for the commercials and potential region blockage .

Hopefully, this isn't a dupe, couldn't find any. But, as seeing how the embeds are working odd I can see one slipping through I didn't catch.

/Drink your chocolate milk!

*promote

I meant exactly what I wrote; I was evoking the image of a priest being ordained in his robes.


Yeah, that sentence above doesn't parse right either. You can be ordained, and you can be in robes, but you don't really "ordain something in robes". You just don't. Maybe "shrouded in vestments"? Feel free to disagree with me on this, it obviously doesn't matter.

My point, continuing a previous conversation with gwiz, is that people put faith in science much as religious people put faith in religion.


I'd say they put way, way more faith in science than religion. And they're right to: science brings us all kinds of amazing things every day. When I get on a plane, I'm relying on all sorts of science and engineering that I don't fully understand. My three year old knows to put chocolate milk in the fridge or it will go bad. People have long histories of relying on science and things working out. They have long histories of seeing something amazing, having no idea how it works, but later using that science and technology in their own lives.

If people got anywhere near that level of positive feedback from their religions, religion wouldn't be slowly dying in the developed world.

There are no legitimate demonstrations of quantum levitation that highlighted some of the features present here...


Well, yes, there's more stuff happening here than in previous demonstrations - but that's what people are used to with science; a progression of more features.

If it steps over the line, even a micron, it becomes pseudo-science. Yet you are willing to suspend your disbelief based on other past results you may not understand.


Very few people are going to understand all of the science and technology they use. I don't know how my anti-lock brakes work, or fully understand even the (what I assume is simple) tech in an airbag (what's the gas it inflates with? I don't know). And I may one day rely on those things to save my life. Almost anyone getting medical treatment is relying on very, very shakey knowledge of how the medicine or procedure actually works, or why things are done a specific way.

And they're not fools to do so. With science and technology, you can build a web of trust based on demonstrable results in the past. I know that there's standards bodies that test airbags, and medical associations that understand and approve procedures; I don't have to confirm this kind of thing personally on a case-by-case basis, nor could any one person fully understand all the technology in their lives. Hawking has to hire some tech guy to fix his voice box.

But that doesn't mean that things aren't tested or that there's "blind faith" involved. There's faith backed by reason.

Back to this video in specific: people may have thought this video was real, but very few would have sent off a cheque to buy one without knowing a lot more, without seeing it reported on by someone they have some trust in. And look at how fast it was brought down. How many people still believed after reading all the comments? Similarly, when scientists emerge trumpeting some new unlikely discovery, they're treated by other scientists with very appropriate and high levels of skepticism until their results are independently validated.

Could you benefit from a medium-term, important scientific hoax? Yes, with some real effort. But history has a lot more examples of people seeing big success using science for their religious hoaxes (from Greek temples on down to scientology). Even if people have the "amazing science" in hand with which to try to trick, they recognize where people's real blindspots are and aim for those.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

It teaches a few things, like the importance and effectiveness of the gas masks, keeping cool under duress and such. Mostly though I think the instructors just enjoy it. In every class there will be a few pukers, the instructors in Cornwallis know that so they tell everyone that Jell-O or chocolate milk will dampen the effects of the gas, all it really does is provide colourful vomit.


It's also supposed to give them confidence in their kit (NBC suit and mask) that it will do it's job effectively and they can experience that first hand rather than just "hoping" it works because someone told them it will.

Also, love the anecdote about the Jell-O and colorful vomit. Classic!

It teaches a few things, like the importance and effectiveness of the gas masks, keeping cool under duress and such. Mostly though I think the instructors just enjoy it. In every class there will be a few pukers, the instructors in Cornwallis know that so they tell everyone that Jell-O or chocolate milk will dampen the effects of the gas, all it really does is provide colourful vomit.

>> ^Issykitty:

They have other things to drink there, I'm sure @ant. Chocolate milk, sodas, water, water with ice, water without ice, water with lemon, iced tea, orange juice, apple juice, tomato juice, lemonade, club soda, virgin fruit drinks, iced tea/ lemonades (also known as arnold palmers), cherry cokes, shirley temples...


"And then?" Yep, I just drink water with no ice since it's free and good for my body. I just can't drink too much or else I will pee. Funny, I just went to TGIF today for lunch with my old Christian friends.

They have other things to drink there, I'm sure @ant. Chocolate milk, sodas, water, water with ice, water without ice, water with lemon, iced tea, orange juice, apple juice, tomato juice, lemonade, club soda, virgin fruit drinks, iced tea/ lemonades (also known as arnold palmers), cherry cokes, shirley temples...