in Barcelona science museum they have a giant flying ping pong balls machine with this flickering light, that makes your brain go into liquid form

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

And sex museums ... don't forget the sex museums.

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/12/egypt-new-find-shows-slaves-didnt-build-pyramids

"Dieter Wildung, a former director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum, said it is "common knowledge in serious Egyptology" that the pyramid builders were not slaves and that the construction of the pyramids and the story of the Israelites in Egypt were separated by hundreds of years."

At the Tol Sleng museum, there are signs posted "no smiling"...hard to imagine that needed to be said. Grimmest place I've ever been. The "killing fields" just south of Phenom Phen have clothes emerging from piles buried which look like they were just dropped by people not long before.
Despite the grim history, the Cambodians were the nicest and friendliest of the people I encountered in my travels through SE Asia.

In an attempt to prank the visitors to an art museum, they became art themselves. How fitting.

It was a confiscation policy. All guns that were banned HAD to be handed in. This was easily enforced by our mandatory gun registration laws in most states (except in Tasmania where the massacre that trigger this scheme occurred). People could hand in any gun they wanted even if it wasn't banned. I am not sure if there was compensation involved.

One stupid outcome was that many antique and rare guns were destroyed rather than rendered inopporeable or transferred to museums etc. My neighbour handed in a very valuable double barrell shotgun that was destroyed despite it being legal. He didn't want it anymore and like manny citizens took advantage of the amnesty to dispose of it.

You can still own pump action and semi-auto guns. You just need a special license for them. To get the license you need an especially good reason to need such weapons. There are strict regulations surrounding their storage and use. That said, my brother got a job as a pest controller for a class D license which enabled him to have grenade launchers if he wanted.

tl:dr - Australians have a very sensible approach to guns. You didn't see any whining about self protection in this vid did you?

Richard Fortey used to work in the British Museum, and is a fossil (and particularly Trilobite) expert, so it's not terribly surprising his favourite fossil is a Trilobite. I was surprised to find so few Trilobite vids on the sift... or indeed on youtube!

*beg

Missing his point VoodooV- Weath (comfortable, social and political environment=stable) as opposed to Poverty (constant struggle, unstable living conditions and government, etc).
Wealth provides access to information, education, and comfort in our temporarily-fucked paradigm. Unfortunately, knowledge and the leisure to pursue a higher path of consciousness is not something "endowed to all men by their creator" but something to be kept in a museum or private collection....or maybe even an entire city in ROME??? ..hint,hint??

Religions are wealthy because they have duped humans that they have a handle on their spirituality, or are a direct conduit to God herself. How do you think they got wealthy??
Oh and YES, it does take a higher education than that of a base, instinctual, meatbot (not talking about "University" per-se, either), because in order to HAVE have the questioning nature to reject religion you must first understand what it is about an institution's take on God, that you have a problem with....Harder to do that when you are poor and stupid BY DESIGN!

Religion has lasted as long as it has because people are herded, worked like cattle, and fed a continual stream of partial or outright disinformation. The average person may not have the information to make an informed decision, or even access to it.

There's a reason for the adage, "Knowledge is Power"
Control the dissemination of information and you can control a shitload of human bean!!

Oh, and a hearty down vote for Stink Uraguay's continual, smugly-smugstein rant(z). ...(everything he offers up is a rant right, and never are they either witty, or eloquent. MEH

Why do people (esp atheists) insist on giving this "museum" their money!? Stop that!

The adults who go to this thing and believe all this crap, fine, they're misinformed and poorly educated. But dragging the kids along? Oh man oh man. What a disservice to those poor minds. They will definitely have problems growing up when they attempt to rationalize their false beliefs versus what they witness in the real world...

...and that is sad.

Here's a thought: Which is worse, taking a child to this museum and telling them that this is true, or not schooling your child at all? Because one of those is illegal and in my opinion, it's the wrong one.

>> ^Ickster:

Technological questions aside, the economics will likely never work for scheduled flights. Concorde was scrapped because it was a money loser, not because it didn't work. I don't see anything here that suggests a ticket on this thing wouldn't be astronomically expensive.


Actually this is wrong. The Concorde did lose money at first, but then they did a survey asking people how much they thought a ticket from NYC to London on the Concorde would cost, and the results of the survey was that everyone thought it was more expensive than they were actually charging. So then they decided to charge a lot more for the tickets and market it as a "luxury" flight. This gimmick was successful - it became more profitable than any other division of BA.

It was retired after the famous crash while taking off in France. Even though that was it's only crash, after long investigation, and decline in first class passengers, they never brought it back.

I'm glad that many of them made it to museums, because the Concorde was a phenomenal piece of engineering.

I have no idea how well this Reaction Engine will work, but I hope to see it succeed.

>> ^brycewi19:

And yes, that's Tom Hanks at :34!


And ironically featuring the Adam and Eve of a Creationism "museum" at 0:33.

There used to be a museum for these things in Gippsland. The building was shaped like a huge worm, and you could go inside and they had a glass walled area where you could see these giant earthworms. Sadly the place closed and then became a weird place where they had a dead great white shark preserved in a tank (did not pay to see that), and I think it's shut down now

You had some good points in the Bill Nye video recently. The Creation Museum have responded with their own video http://videosift.com/video/Scientists-from-the-Creation-Museum-respond-to-Bill-Nye

You had some good points in the Bill Nye video recently. The Creation Museum have responded with their own video http://videosift.com/video/Scientists-from-the-Creation-Museum-respond-to-Bill-Nye