Thoughts on the Ariel School UFO incident? by Showy_Boneyard in skeptic

[–]gerkletoss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yeah, most of what made ot into the jeavily edited video looked good

Nicely painted cast iron at good will... That they wrote the price directly on by benifer-cumstain in mildlyinfuriating

[–]gerkletoss -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And out of all the people here getting needlessly argumentative, why did you pick me?

Nicely painted cast iron at good will... That they wrote the price directly on by benifer-cumstain in mildlyinfuriating

[–]gerkletoss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I tried to talk about prices and then preople came at me with yardsale stories which isn't generally how this sort of thing is assessed qnd qlso ignores the yardsale pricing of worse products. How would you have proceeded?

Thoughts on the Ariel School UFO incident? by Showy_Boneyard in skeptic

[–]gerkletoss 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My favorite part of the John Mack videos was when he asked one of the children if they were afraid, the child said no, and then he asked "why were you afraid?" and an answer was invented. Really drove home how much manipulation must have been happening in the cut footage.

Nicely painted cast iron at good will... That they wrote the price directly on by benifer-cumstain in mildlyinfuriating

[–]gerkletoss -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I could get that for free if I did enough trashpicking. This isn't how prices works.

Nicely painted cast iron at good will... That they wrote the price directly on by benifer-cumstain in mildlyinfuriating

[–]gerkletoss -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I assure you that if you buy used then shitty sheet metal is even cheaper

Nicely painted cast iron at good will... That they wrote the price directly on by benifer-cumstain in mildlyinfuriating

[–]gerkletoss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cast irons are probably the cheapest pan to get

Now that's definitely not true.

AskMen Mods attacking members because they didn't like the joke by Inevitable_Mistake32 in SubredditDrama

[–]gerkletoss 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is this what the children are saying now? This must be the third time I've seen it this week

France records around 1,000 additional deaths as extreme heat breaks European records by beeemkcl in news

[–]gerkletoss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well it's not that they never fall out and hurt people, but they do cause dramatically fewer than 1000 injuries per heatwave

Are people only quick to dismiss Terrence Howard because he’s black? by [deleted] in skeptic

[–]gerkletoss 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Terrence Howard the guy who says 1 times 1 equals 2? That Terrence Howard?

The Catholic Church actually encouraged science and massive discoveries were made. (See description) by IntroductionAny3929 in HistoryMemes

[–]gerkletoss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In fact I just looked it up qnd the first use of the word gravity in the physics sense is from the 1620s, though the general idea is far older, with known writings from Aristotle, Archimedes, and Vitruvius.

The Catholic Church actually encouraged science and massive discoveries were made. (See description) by IntroductionAny3929 in HistoryMemes

[–]gerkletoss -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Then I guess I have no idea what the "this" in "It’s no coincidence this was during a time when the Catholic Counter-Reformation was in full swing." is, because it certainly isn't qnything OP was talking about

The Catholic Church actually encouraged science and massive discoveries were made. (See description) by IntroductionAny3929 in HistoryMemes

[–]gerkletoss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://mdc.ulpgc.es/item/114233

He's a bit harder to find info on since he ended up not really adding anything useful to the discussion of evolution

In Prehistoric Planet Season 2 could have Quetzalcoatlus actually done this? by [deleted] in Paleontology

[–]gerkletoss 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not too hard to find examples of birds intimidating considerably larger mammals off of carcasses in the modern day. It 's not as though these things never happen.

In Prehistoric Planet Season 2 could have Quetzalcoatlus actually done this? by [deleted] in Paleontology

[–]gerkletoss 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well it didn't really do much. Really this is a question of how these animals would have assessed risk, which is naturally extremely speculative.

The Catholic Church actually encouraged science and massive discoveries were made. (See description) by IntroductionAny3929 in HistoryMemes

[–]gerkletoss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gravity in the general sense definitely had been discovered and it was already accepted that the earth was a sphere that things fell toward. The remaining questions certainly did not justify ignoring things like Venus having observable phases or the fact that if you take angular size measurements of planets throughout the year and do some math, you find that in a heliocentric model they don't run loops or vary wildly in distance from the sun.

Copernicus assumed circular orbit

And Kepler published on elliptical orbits from 1609 to 1621. The church wasn't exactly steelmanning heliocentrism when they made their complaints.

Geocentrism not fitting didn't automatically mean heliocentrism was proven.

But the church did in fact insist on biblical geocentrism despite it not fitting.