Dumbass newsies
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Dumbass newsies
I know a lot of reporters and newspeople are scientifically illiterate, but come on!
This is from CNN, by the way.
This is from CNN, by the way.
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Damn americans holding out on the secret of FTL travel!
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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!
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!
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This is from the same network that accidentially misspelled someone's last name as "nigger".God Emperor wrote:Wouldn't you think someone would see the mistake and correct it?
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Dammit! They've stumbled onto something!
Commence primary ignition!
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Re: Dumbass newsies
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...
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Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ~Steve Prefontaine
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Unless thirty scientists at NASA actually bring it up by a coupla hundred...Admiral Valdemar wrote:If that's real then the average IQ of the US has dropped to minus something.
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Re: Dumbass newsies
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.
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Oh do shut up. One person makes a fucking typo, and you decide that the whole fucking country is retarded.Admiral Valdemar wrote:If that's real then the average IQ of the US has dropped to minus something.
Although, in a few hundred years, a headline like that might be perfectly fine.
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Nah, I base my observation on a lot of American incidents that warrant pruning the IQ points a little.Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Oh do shut up. One person makes a fucking typo, and you decide that the whole fucking country is retarded.Admiral Valdemar wrote:If that's real then the average IQ of the US has dropped to minus something.
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!Although, in a few hundred years, a headline like that might be perfectly fine.
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*WOOSH!*Admiral Valdemar wrote: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!Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Although, in a few hundred years, a headline like that might be perfectly fine.
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Spanky, calm the fuck down! He was joking.
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Probably the part where you told Vald "Fuck you".
Anyway, I'm just watching my friend's back.
Anyway, I'm just watching my friend's back.
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