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.

My color/pseudo-genre comparison of Alien movies:

Alien: silver and gold / haunted house
Aliens: grey blue and green / vietnam
Alien 3: yellow (piss-soaked) / prison
Alien Resurrection: cyan and maroon (brown) / French farce

I might watch the trailer a couple more times, but aside from that I'm not watching any more footage of this movie before it comes out. These movies are my favourite. I'm thrilled to see Ridley swoop back in to elevate it after the drudging it's gone through over the past 20 years.

I wonder if pasting Gwiz' comment from the Alien trailer will work?

>> ^gwiz665:

James Cameron's Aliens: http://www.videosift.com/video/Aliens-Trailer
David Fincher's Alien 3: http://www.videosift.com/video/Alien-3-trailer
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection: http://www.videosift.com/video/Alien-Resurrection-trailer
Color observations of the alien franchise
Alien - gray (black/white)
Aliens - blue
Alien 3 - brown
Alien Resurrection - green.
Will the new prequel by Ridley Scott be red, perhaps?

Been there, done that. Not as recommended when on acid though.
>> ^gwiz665:

Try saying gwiz665 5 times in a mirror....
>> ^luxury_pie:
Or gwiz comes out?
>> ^gwiz665:
Don't stick your dick in crazy!
>> ^luxury_pie:
I'm already having sex with the internet, no sandwiches needed.
And when there is sandwich-proof love, sudo isn't required anymore.
>> ^ant:
>> ^luxury_pie:
>> ^ant:
>> ^luxury_pie:
Ahh internets, I like you.

Ditto, but <3 for me.
The day the internet can make me a sandwich, there will be love.

Oh yeah. Does that include sex with the Internet too?
Do you use sudo command for sandwiches from your UNIX/Linux computers?

Try saying gwiz665 5 times in a mirror....
>> ^luxury_pie:

Or gwiz comes out?
>> ^gwiz665:
Don't stick your dick in crazy!
>> ^luxury_pie:
I'm already having sex with the internet, no sandwiches needed.
And when there is sandwich-proof love, sudo isn't required anymore.
>> ^ant:
>> ^luxury_pie:
>> ^ant:
>> ^luxury_pie:
Ahh internets, I like you.

Ditto, but <3 for me.
The day the internet can make me a sandwich, there will be love.

Oh yeah. Does that include sex with the Internet too?
Do you use sudo command for sandwiches from your UNIX/Linux computers?

Or gwiz comes out?
>> ^gwiz665:

Don't stick your dick in crazy!
>> ^luxury_pie:
I'm already having sex with the internet, no sandwiches needed.
And when there is sandwich-proof love, sudo isn't required anymore.
>> ^ant:
>> ^luxury_pie:
>> ^ant:
>> ^luxury_pie:
Ahh internets, I like you.

Ditto, but <3 for me.
The day the internet can make me a sandwich, there will be love.

Oh yeah. Does that include sex with the Internet too?
Do you use sudo command for sandwiches from your UNIX/Linux computers?

>> ^robbersdog49:

gwiz is right. This isn't cute, it's horrible. That poor little fella is going to die with people laughing at it. If I remember right the condition affects the kitten's ability to eat and it will starve to death. Nice.


I'm not sure where you got your information but in general this condition is very manageable and only incapacitates an animal for a few moments per episode.

Unless the kitten is constantly exposed to startling stimulation there should be no issues with it getting enough nutrition.

*sigh* now I'm sad>> ^robbersdog49:

gwiz is right. This isn't cute, it's horrible. That poor little fella is going to die with people laughing at it. If I remember right the condition affects the kitten's ability to eat and it will starve to death. Nice.


Now I'm sad, I showed my wife this video but I won't tell her the ending

gwiz is right. This isn't cute, it's horrible. That poor little fella is going to die with people laughing at it. If I remember right the condition affects the kitten's ability to eat and it will starve to death. Nice.

"That's not a penis. It's a space station!!!" - Gwiz making the horrific tolerable

I think this was mostly because, although it changes frequently, he was sporting a Zoidberg icon at the time and I could actually hear in my head the crabby voice looking up at the sili-penis in awe.

so why the fuck can you do it @bamdrew but an hour previous Gwiz gets shit on ?

Edit- His promote must of garnered enough votes to publish it where it could be called not dead... or however thats works, thats messed up.

Thanks, gwiz.

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*talks *quality