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Dumbass newsies

Posted: 2003-02-03 05:57am
by Perinquus
I know a lot of reporters and newspeople are scientifically illiterate, but come on!

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This is from CNN, by the way.

Posted: 2003-02-03 06:02am
by Faram
Damn americans holding out on the secret of FTL travel!

Posted: 2003-02-03 06:06am
by Sea Skimmer
Shit, now they all know about it, along with our cameras and radar systems, which can track FTL objects.

Quick, activate the United States national repulsorlift system and prep the hyperdrive and superlaser! We can't let the rest of the world inform our Naban alien enemies!

Posted: 2003-02-03 06:08am
by Dalton
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 2003-02-03 06:22am
by God Emperor
Wouldn't you think someone would see the mistake and correct it?

Posted: 2003-02-03 06:53am
by Patrick Degan
Well, so much for keeping the secret of the NASA Warp Development Project.

Posted: 2003-02-03 07:02am
by Dalton
God Emperor wrote:Wouldn't you think someone would see the mistake and correct it?
This is from the same network that accidentially misspelled someone's last name as "nigger".

Posted: 2003-02-03 07:06am
by HemlockGrey
Dammit! They've stumbled onto something!

Commence primary ignition!

Posted: 2003-02-03 07:55am
by Stormbringer
Are you sure that's real? I was watching CNN and I never saw that. Just the Mach 6 stuff.

Posted: 2003-02-03 08:52am
by Admiral Valdemar
If that's real then the average IQ of the US has dropped to minus something.

Stormbringer: What are you betting Mach 6 means jack shit to CNN officials? They probably see it as equivalent to Warp 6.

Re: Dumbass newsies

Posted: 2003-02-03 09:22am
by ArmorPierce
LMAO It was just a mistake and the person who typed it up was probably just thinking of light when he typed it and didn't notice it--at least, I hope...

Posted: 2003-02-03 10:54am
by Stormbringer
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Stormbringer: What are you betting Mach 6 means jack shit to CNN officials? They probably see it as equivalent to Warp 6.
I think it's something that could happen. The thing is I was watching CNN and never saw that so I do have to wonder if it's a hoax.

Posted: 2003-02-03 11:34am
by David
I know i know, during the crash the announcer said the plane was traviling at 20,000 miles an hour or somesuch number, then they said that was 5 times the speed of sound. Is it just me or is their math alittle bit screwy.

Posted: 2003-02-03 11:41am
by InnerBrat
Admiral Valdemar wrote:If that's real then the average IQ of the US has dropped to minus something.
Unless thirty scientists at NASA actually bring it up by a coupla hundred...

Posted: 2003-02-03 11:52am
by Ghost Rider
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

18 time the speed of LIGHT?!

Oi....

Re: Dumbass newsies

Posted: 2003-02-03 11:52am
by Lagmonster
I watched it for a while, and I don't remember that goof either. It wouldn't be hard to doctor the shot - you'd only have to change the word 'light' and it could make sense.

Posted: 2003-02-03 11:55am
by XaLEv
"Light" doesn't quite look right. Seems to have too much white in it, not enough blue. Bit sharp compared to the rest, too.

Posted: 2003-02-03 11:58am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Admiral Valdemar wrote:If that's real then the average IQ of the US has dropped to minus something.
Oh do shut up. One person makes a fucking typo, and you decide that the whole fucking country is retarded. :evil:

Although, in a few hundred years, a headline like that might be perfectly fine. :wink:

Posted: 2003-02-03 12:01pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:If that's real then the average IQ of the US has dropped to minus something.
Oh do shut up. One person makes a fucking typo, and you decide that the whole fucking country is retarded. :evil:
Nah, I base my observation on a lot of American incidents that warrant pruning the IQ points a little. :P
Although, in a few hundred years, a headline like that might be perfectly fine. :wink:
Yeah, and Einstein will go and beat the proverbial shit out of whomever made a drive that screwed with his laws. For he is THE LAW! 8)

Posted: 2003-02-03 12:06pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Although, in a few hundred years, a headline like that might be perfectly fine. :wink:
Yeah, and Einstein will go and beat the proverbial shit out of whomever made a drive that screwed with his laws. For he is THE LAW! 8)
*WOOSH!* :roll:

Posted: 2003-02-03 02:41pm
by Vertigo1
Spanky, calm the fuck down! He was joking.

Posted: 2003-02-03 02:42pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Nani? When did I indicate I was pissed off?

:?

Posted: 2003-02-03 02:44pm
by Vertigo1
Probably the part where you told Vald "Fuck you". :D

Anyway, I'm just watching my friend's back. :)

Posted: 2003-02-03 02:48pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Bah, he's just a sissy Limey that thinks all of us Yanks can't think for shit. :P

Posted: 2003-02-03 02:58pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Bah, he's just a sissy Limey that thinks all of us Yanks can't think for shit. :P
Hey, now look here Sunny Jim... Oh wait, that is what I think. :P

Naw, Yanks are funny (in a good way). :D