in general, hindu eschatology resembles the big bang/crunch. the cycle of expansion from a single point only to collapse to another single point and another expansion. these cycles are billions of years apart. (also some idea - that's too fuzzy to recall in detail - about matter changing and slipping into an alternative dimension might be a model of the great beyond)

will use Russell Bertrand - although not a poet, have read poetry that echos this thought (not gonna search) almost verbatim - when he said, “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” this was pretty much summed up the Dunning-Kruger Effect. (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/355363-one-of-the-painful-things-about-our-time-is-that)

the other you noted. meditation is healthy. of note, Sufism tends to focus on intense focusing, in music and song...and some of the musicians are peachy keen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRivHR0c28

and the poetry is beautiful (EX: Rumi). so religion has spawned some good things, too.

in short, religion is no more destructive than the person implementing it. do believe in ideas. whether it comes from a white cassock or lab coat. such is the freedom to keep a mind free.

or take it up w/René Descartes*. he seemed to be better at it than I.

*Descartes died when he was run over by a horse-drawn coach. This is where the saying "Don't put Descartes in front of the horse."

BTW: Earle song?

I totally over thought that. Picturing you on break sitting at your desk in your white lab coat at some university watching videos on VS trying to calculate the erosion affect of sound and vibration on granules of sand to determine how long it would take before they would have to change the sand again and maybe offer a better quality and grade in the future.

Don't do that man. Although it wasn't your intent, you exposed me as a "duh."

Lab coats must be cheap.

Dude! Watch your back. I think you know too much.

I'm willing to bet you wear a lab coat and can play the piano really well.

*wondering how much of my life I've squandered*

I'm having fun envisioning other movies taking a cue from this one and having the characters' wardrobes state their role. Jurassic Park geneticists in lab coats with "Scientist" on them, Rocky wearing shorts that say "Boxer" across his ass, James Bond in his "Spy" suit...

I have read the books and I can honestly say that her complaints are complete rubbish. If she is pissed about this, then she better stop reading or else she's in for some huge disappointment when everything she reads doesn't have a useful Asian person in it. I'm German, but I don't get pissed off when my people are represented as mass murdering, goose stepping, lab coat wearing, mad scientist types that are only out so as to sew someone's ass to another person's mouth. Could be worse though... l could be Russian. Bunch of vodka swilling, fun house of death loving, lesbian beating Cossacks over there.

Bring forth this lab coat wearing expert!

I'm probably just as tired of these over-promising advances as other people, but you have to remember that sometimes things don't work (at the scale/cost we require), and it can take a long time to reach that conclusion despite early excitement. We also have to remember that these types of announcements can be a method of soliciting funding.

I'd love to see this type of tech productized, I'll take two please.

The "visitor" lab coat isn't really enough to overcome the studio lighting.

I don't buy it, the hot scientist girl isn't even wearing a lab coat.

Atheists are a yawn. They are passé and uncreative. Videosift is choked with long paragraphs of metaphysical brain farts by them. And predictable! Anyone is a lab coat is a saint and anyone in a frock is a boogieman. God, I stopped reading long ago.

Agnostics are where it's at!!!

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

My point, continuing a previous conversation with gwiz, is that people put faith in science much as religious people put faith in religion. Not saying people are stupid for doing so; just that people are not educated enough to discern what is truly scientifically proven and what is a hoax.

There are no legitimate demonstrations of quantum levitation that highlighted some of the features present here (e.g, angled banks, objects with limited symmetry, which could make the magnetic flux non-uniform).

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.

This is normal. People need to truly become as skeptical of trumpeted scientific results as they are of religion.

To mangle a saying: when the high priests take over, they will come dressed in lab coats.

>> ^jmzero:

Ordain something in the raiment of science and people will believe.

Do you perhaps mean "adorn" rather than "ordain"? Or do you mean that after you put the raiment of science on something you should confer upon it some sort of priesthood? If so, that's a fairly well-mixed metaphor.
And it makes sense people would believe this. The makers here are clearly imitating previous legitimate demonstrations showing reasonably similar behavior. People weren't stupid for believing those videos (which were real) and to the extent people believed in this I don't think they're stupid or even gullible. The video doesn't hold up to any kind of scrutiny, but it's reasonably well made.
And of course people would have been much less likely to believe this if the makers here had credited magic or religion with powering the cars (rather than sciencey stuff). Why? Because magic and religion don't, every day, bring us cool stuff like this. Science does, and there's no reason to believe it won't deliver a real version of something similar to this in the very near future.

HA! Love your profile cartoon!
*adjust lab coat*

>> ^deathcow:

Sure seems like the teacher doesn't give a damn about the students excitement over this reaction.


OR THEIR SAFETY !@

WHERE ARE ALL THE LAB COATS AND GLOVES AND OTHER Nick nacks ! Skirts... pft. LAB COATS LADIES, come back when you are ready !

Your God-inspired hate is a disgrace to the human race. I see a stage shared by children and openly gay men singing a song of love for outsiders and the oppressed, the black sheep of our society. You see this expression of love as disgraceful.

It's been a while since I stepped inside a church or read the Bible, but last I heard Jesus loves EVERYONE. He even asked his dad to forgive the sons of bitches who tortured and murdered him. Now you'd think if he could do that, then the LEAST you could do is just fucking tolerate gays without condemnation. But it's easier to talk about God's love than to practice it, isn't it?

Religion is slowly, inexorably dying, and it ain't just science that's killing it. Practitioners like you are driving just as many nails into its coffin as the guys in lab coats. And I guess if religion dies then it must be God's will, right?>> ^bobknight33:

Disgraceful and inappropriate. To think that this is ok. Not!

I love her shitty choker and wrist bands, accompanied by pig tails and black make up...yet she has a lab coat on. Like her boss was like: "You can dress like a cry-baby goth, but you gotta wear a lab coat". Man these writers are so fucking out of touch with reality.