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Having training in the use of primary sources or having help finding good ones (or at least how to critique them), is a valuable skill. Sadly, at least from my experience in the Monmouth curriculum, they rarely do that. I don't know what they do elsewhere, but here, even the upper division classes ...

A beginning student can't know what's true and false and typically trusts the professorship he has. That's the difference between a beginning student and a more advanced student - the beginning student just takes the professor's word as gospel, while a more advanced student treats the professor as ...

Also, I apologize for the digression (and suspect that I am going to look like a total asshole, but the sentiment is sincere), I am startled by the fact that educated persons that presumably live in first world countries and have access to an internet connection have to seriously contemplate this o...

In my experience, offices in light industrial areas are a goldmine of discarded good quality furniture. I've furnished about half of my apartment in this manner, including a few items (most notably a large, solid oak desk, and a matching solid oak sideboard) which would have cost me hundreds of doll...

Finagle wrote:Of, and saying that it's not slang

Ghetto edit: that was supposed to say Oh, not of... Typos are my personal pet peeve

It's a term made up by SW EU writers who were too stupid to realize that it didn't mean anything. It would be like me telling you that you fall when you step off a cliff not because of the gravity of the Earth, but because of the gravity of the Earth's "mass shadow". That's not "slan...

"Gravitic mass shadow" is an idiotic term. It has no physical meaning whatsoever. If there is a gravitational field interaction, that's what it should be called: a gravity field. I've always assumed that's exactly what it is - just a slang term for it that gets used in the Star Wars unive...

Oh that's another thing, I'm tired of Spec Ops dudes who knife sentries to look elite. Um, dude, that guy is probably on a shift. Forgetting how miraculous it is that he's carrying out this jungle patrol alone, (or so you think) if he doesn't complete his radio check at the next interval or show up...

Learn to read, I already provided 3 examples that contradict you, and IP provided a 4th. Are you talking about the Quaestor and the 2 examples about the Falcon that you give? Correct me if I'm wrong (with a quote), but I thought that the Quaestor emerged from hyperspace either too close to Pammant,...

It doesn't address this claim because it deals with canon, not fanon. Hyperspace is realspace from a tachyonic perspective. You interact with all of it, with the only difference being that said interactions are dictated by superluminal physics rather then conventional physics. Your hyperdrive doesn...

OK, I actually have all of the quirks that have been mentioned here, to one degree or another. I grew up in BC, with majestic mountains on one side, and the Pacific ocean on the other. I'm OK with being in flat places away from the ocean... but only for relatively short periods of time (a few days h...

Thrawn's "strategy" leaves much to be desired. He risked himself personally on the front, micromanaged individual operations' detailed planning by other operational commanders, and apparently did all the strategic planning in his head, so that after he died High Command could not due shit...

the most important thing you learn in a post-secondary institution isn't going to be what you learn in your classes. The most important thing that you learn is how to function independantly in an environment in which you are wholely responsible for your own success or failure. Don't you pick that u...

Try doing that with a weapon that only fires short pulses, like a blaster firing individual bolts. We've never even seen alternate settings (stun, disintegrate, provide warmth from rocks, cut, etc.) out of the movie rifles. You and I did watch the same version of ANH, right? The one where the Storm...

I have heard it claimed - with a straight face and absolute sincerity - that Shaitan put those fossils there, in order to deceive and confuse us and distract us from the literal truth of the Bible. Ooooookaaaay.... That's, um, sure. Kinda hard to argue with that. How can you prove something to some...

I'm sorry, that is all friggin' rediculous. Undergrad, in the end, hasn't crap to do with chicks or food or cities nearby. Really? All that should matter is whether your potential major you're going to pursue has an accelerated department at that college. The question wasn't about "how to pick...

And even if all it did produce was fossils, thats still infinitely more than creationism produces. The idea that evolution theory "produced" fossils is based on his belief that the fossils are all fakes. In other words, he believes that if Darwin didn't come up with evolution theory a cen...

Chicks, man. Honestly, when I chose a university I chose it based on a few criteria: 1) number of students - I wanted it to be big enough that you got decent programs and professors, but small enough that you wouldn't just get lost in the crowd. 2) distance from home - I didn't want to keep living a...

TithonusSyndrome wrote:Around here, we call them "technical virgins" or "TVs".

Hmm, careful who you use that term around - many people would assume that "TVs" meant transvestites. It could cause a wee bit of confusion...

This whole thread reminds me of Larry Niven's books, which made relatively extensive use of inflatable living areas in spacecraft and on planets without breathable atmospheres. In his books there was a type of spacecraft hull which was impervious to practically anything (IIRC it was designed as a si...

I'm utterly speechless. To be honest, I'm having some trouble believing that somebody educated enough to have heard of thermodynamics (which isn't saying much, I grant you, since anyone who has ever taken a science class above the grade 8 or 9 level should know about thermodynamics in the abstract a...

Look at how many continue spouting the "thermodynamics disproves evolution" or "radiometric dating has been refuted" bullshit. Wait, what? OK, I never really paid much attention to the whole evolution vs. creationism debate (largely because I never understood how it's even possi...

[quote="Aratech]The targeting system must have also been designed by moles, given how often they're observed to miss, even at spitting distance. [/quote]
Nah, just a faulty batch or two of clones... Same problem that afflicted the Asshole family in Space Balls I presume

It was only a matter of time, latest claim from the Trektards: Maybe the phasers have a HUD that is advanced enough that the phasers no longer need sights. Wow. Stormtroopers have a HUD in their helmets (well, they call it MFTAS which, IIRC, stands for Multi-Frequency Target Aquisition System, but ...

Humans have a social conformist instinct; they view anything which is different as potentially threatening, because it's from outside the tribe. The more different it is, the more threatening it is. Homosexuals are very different, so there is a natural tendency towards hostility. I think you've hit...