fafalone Posted February 28, 2004 Posted February 28, 2004 Just had to share this hilarious paradigm of pseudoscience with everyone: http://www.alexchiu.com/
-Demosthenes- Posted February 28, 2004 Posted February 28, 2004 hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhhahahhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhhahahhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhhahahhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhhahahahahah cough cough...I'm okay. I'm actually crying at this very moment. That is the coolest thing I've ever seen! Warning though, I clicked on the link and now I get a bunch of pop-ups! But it can be fixed.
fafalone Posted February 28, 2004 Author Posted February 28, 2004 sorry, i use the google toolbar so had no idea about the popups.
-Demosthenes- Posted February 28, 2004 Posted February 28, 2004 That's cool, it turns out it's just when the page is up. When you go to another page or click out it stops.
Sayonara Posted February 29, 2004 Posted February 29, 2004 So... it's a plastic ring with button magnets in it? WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?!
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 1, 2004 Posted March 1, 2004 We're all too stupid to think of it. Funny.. he has the weekly world news in his testimonials. Weekly world news is a TABLOID! I mean, the current issue is about Osama giving up to be with Saddam (he's gay). And all those pictures for proof, they make him look older. So it's no proof.
-Demosthenes- Posted March 1, 2004 Posted March 1, 2004 I invented the ion engine that can go 4 times the speed of light. No one will buy it! What am I going to do.
-Demosthenes- Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 I did, but when people bought it they wanted to return it. Like a the engine out of an old lawn mowing doesn't go faster than the speed of light. You can see the blades moving it's just a blur, so it must be giong faster than the speed of light.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 3, 2004 Posted March 3, 2004 Obviously the placebo effect doesn't work on things besides medicine.
-Demosthenes- Posted March 3, 2004 Posted March 3, 2004 Oh, pelican crossings. No really, what is it.
Sayonara Posted March 3, 2004 Posted March 3, 2004 The traffic lights that are there for the benefit of pedestrians. You press the button and wait for the lights to change, then cross the road. Those things.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 3, 2004 Posted March 3, 2004 Oh, those. I never really thought they did anything anyway. Maybe they should make the button generate power. Put them in high-pedestrian areas. My brother says that one he knows of (pedestrian crossing lights) NEVER change until you hit the button.
Sayonara Posted March 3, 2004 Posted March 3, 2004 There's a theory here that the majority of buttons are just placebos and don't actually do anything. The only reason I can think of that would support that is that it would be abit stupid to give the throngs of random pedestrians arbitrary control over inner city traffic flow.
-Demosthenes- Posted March 4, 2004 Posted March 4, 2004 You mean those buttons don't do anything? Is there anything else like that? Wow.
YT2095 Posted March 4, 2004 Posted March 4, 2004 Yes, lifts (elevators) in high rise buildings, desingned in such a way that more you press them the longer the lift will take to get to you actualy the pedestrian crossing kit rellies on a count/time program and are linked to alot more than just the lights you`re standing at the actuators are either "break beam" or pressure tubes, 1 in one out kinda thing on a double knock discriminator (usefull too for speed calculations also taken into account). I was only kidding about the Lifts though
mooeypoo Posted March 4, 2004 Posted March 4, 2004 YT But there are those annoying "gravity" street lights, that only switch to green when they "feel" the gravity of a car. And those damn things WORK alright, I once waited almost 30 minutes in red light because some bozo decided to replace his wheel EXACTLY on that annoying weight thing. It was a non-central route, but still. Those things WORK. Some of them are psychological, but some of them are the CAUSE of psychological tension ~moo
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 4, 2004 Posted March 4, 2004 They don't go on weight, they go on a metal detector. O/T!!!!!!!!!!!!
mooeypoo Posted March 4, 2004 Posted March 4, 2004 (What's O/T) ? and... errr... yes they do ... O.O That guy was changing his wheel for 30 minutes and the ilght was constantly green for his side of the road.. well its not THAT important but... err.. yah ~moo
Sayonara Posted March 4, 2004 Posted March 4, 2004 It's "off topic". If Cap'n Refsmmat wants to believe there's no variation in technology across the planet, I say we let him.
-Demosthenes- Posted March 8, 2004 Posted March 8, 2004 I saw a cross walk button thing and I looked behind it and there weren't any wires attached, only a two metal bands holding to the pole!
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