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intrepidity

(7,300 posts) Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:20 PM Sep 2022

And that, folks, is SCIENCE

(the NASA DART bullseye yesterday)

Point this out to those deniers in your life: this is what science looks like. Science, and specifically the scientific method, is what allowed them to perform this feat.

Not prayer. Not wishful thinking.

It's a powerful reminder that there are some (lots, really) absolutes in this wonky world we live in.

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And that, folks, is SCIENCE (Original Post) intrepidity Sep 2022 OP

And a lot of people who have spent their lifetimes working on science Walleye Sep 2022 #1

The anti-intellectual christofascists have not thought about this or read about it. Thomas Hurt Sep 2022 #2

Cousin Claire says cyclonefence Sep 2022 #3

Walleye

(31,025 posts)

1. And a lot of people who have spent their lifetimes working on science

Reply to intrepidity (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:25 PM

Sep 2022

I always respect that they know what they’re doing. My father taught science in high school for a few years. He would say something like God gave us brains to think with

Thomas Hurt

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2. The anti-intellectual christofascists have not thought about this or read about it.

Reply to intrepidity (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:31 PM

Sep 2022

Don't understand what it involved and don't care. Ignorant and un-curious just like their messiah.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)

3. Cousin Claire says

Reply to intrepidity (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 04:03 PM

Sep 2022

it was all filmed on a backlot in Hollywood, Tom Hanks directing.

Something to do with taking away our guns.

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