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I gotta tell you - I keep coming back to this video every few months or so. It is still one of the most unbelievable things I have ever seen.

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Harsh talking to! Oh man, I totally agree - that cop was way out of line. The only thing he could have done worse would have been to give them a ticket...which, if you've rented a car and got a ticket for going 30 miles over the speed limit would really suck. You'd have a court date in a foreign country and everything. Oh, and I suppose he could also have let driving offenses like going at 100mph (relative speed of 30mph if you collide with a car going the same effing direction at the speed limit? That's high...) slide. That would have been worse too.

Like, I get that he did not delicately phrase some of the less desirable aspects of the American penal system, but he was an asshole in order to avoid either (a) failing to do his job or (b) making life more miserable by getting them embroiled in a foreign legal system. And as much as you may not like it, perpetuating negative stereotypes about the life of prisoners helps enforce the legal system...it acts as a significant disincentive. His job is to keep the peace, which I suspect is a lot harder than he is being given credit for.

That is not to say I don't believe that cops can't act inappropriately or in ways that are offensive, but once again...consider how much nastier it would have been if he'd decided to be vindictive and actually cite them for the offense they were guilty of committing.

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Woops a doops. I need to get better at searching for labels.

Ooops...nevermind...

I just saw this and now I am going to *promote it...this deserves more votes.

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Cringe...his comment about time is just plain wrong. He was really onto something when he said "time is not absolute," but then he makes the painful statement that the object moving near the speed of light experiences time more slowly. While it is true that the object experiences time in a frame that he is moving relative to differently, he will always experience time in his own frame in exactly the same way regardless of whether he is moving or not. That's the entire point of an "inertial frame" in special relativity - one result is that time always looks the same in his frame. It is times in other frames that he experiences differently.

Also (1) I agree with jwray - the color of the sky is related to the wavelength^4 term in the re-emission of electromagnetic radiation equations, and (2) don't get me started on the phenomenological lack of specificity in the overly broad comments about how we only see the world via electromagnetic waves/photons.

>> ^jwray:

He's wrong, too. The profile of wavelengths of sunlight that get scattered and transmitted by the atmposphere would be nearly the same regardless of the existence or nonexistence of humans (except for the effect of greenhouse gasses and other pollution). And the longest wavelength of visible light is red, not violet. Then he digresses into some really wrong woo-woo around 4:10. I'll downvote this guy for being ontologically incorrect.

Beat me by 20 minutes! But I had to upvote because WHAT THE EFF IS GOING ON HERE?

Wait...that was MR BURNS? HE LOOKS TOTALLY DIFFERENT!

That's AWESOME! When did Canada get trains?

>> ^brycewi19:

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Thanks - fixed!

>> ^GDGD:

Wow. WOW! Can I give you a NON-GAY-FOR-THEM love letter, to pass on to them?
>> ^carrot:
Have to upvote - I know the bango player!



No sorry I am under strictest instructions to only pass on gay love letters...

Have to upvote - I know the bango player!