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magastrophysicist 53 points ago +54 / -1

Here's some real math from your local based astrophysicist. The ratio of the error rates is

0.6805/0.000008 = 85062.5

i.e. the error rate is nearly five orders of magnitude higher than the allowable rate. Totally designed. Totally fraudulent. Trump wins. Fuck communist core math.

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sometimescanbefunny 25 points ago +25 / -0

I think most people wouldn't comprehend just how big of a deal "nearly five orders of magnitude is." For those of us who can grasp it abstractly, it's enough to make your head spin.

For the normies, you could try something along the lines of "the error rate was so high compared to the allowed rate, imagine that instead of driving 3 miles to Wal-Mart, you found yourself on the face of the moon. That's how bad the errors were compared to how bad they're allowed to be"

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magastrophysicist 13 points ago +13 / -0

Most excellent. Thank you for the great example!

Another one: if your wages increased from $50,000/year to 85062.5 times as much, you'd be making $4.25 BILLION/year.

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DiscoverAFire 11 points ago +11 / -0

Factcheck: 3*10^5 = 300,000miles.... lunar orbit is like 250,000 miles. You would actually have driven past the moon. Checkmate trumper!

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IthoughtIwalked 8 points ago +8 / -0

We need a Snopes novelty account exactly like this to "fact check" every claim made on this site lmao

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RexCollumSilvarum 3 points ago +3 / -0

If your brain cells malfunctioned 68% of the time instead of 0.00008%, you would have crashed the car into a tree before even getting out of your hometown.

(Gee, I wonder how many people the deep state will kill using 'allowable error rates' in their self-driving cars in the future!)

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KnobGoblin 9 points ago +9 / -0

If you ever meet NDT just tell him I think he’s done a massive disservice to science, discovery, and space. He should get back to working because he’s forgotten what it means to be humble science is more than screaming in podcasts laughing at idiotic jokes only tangentially related to anything in astronomy.

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magastrophysicist 9 points ago +9 / -0

Agreed. I met him briefly in 2013 after a public talk he gave. He was nice enough for the half a minute we introduced each other. But he's a total arrogant prick online. He's a legitimate astrophysicist, but he went the route of the social justice warriors and put science "communication" and money over doing his trained job. That's definitely not for me.

A scientist by nature should always take every opportunity to explain his science to the public, as he is almost always on the public dole. Every scientist is thus a science communicator by heart. This has been bastardized by money and turned into a job. Further, it is enhanced by the fact that most lefties love "science porn" which is equal in degeneracy to real porn.

I have no plan to meet him again.

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ZerroDefex 3 points ago +3 / -0

He went full maskhole in a Facebook post and told all us "science deniers" to follow the science, he didn't seem amused when I reminded him that he had an entire episode of "Cosmos" that involved scientists paid off to say that lead in gasoline was safe so why does he assume that Fauci and co. are totally legit?

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magastrophysicist 2 points ago +2 / -0

That's the problem with leftism -- all their opinions are based on feelings, even the lefty scientists.

"I feel that masks help, so I want all of you to wear one."

"No."

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

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KnobGoblin 1 point ago +1 / -0

His cosmos was so inferior to Sagans. Orders of MAGAtude worse. Sagan would hate what he became.

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MAGA_Flocka_Flame 2 points ago +2 / -0

Cargo Cult Scientist

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magastrophysicist 2 points ago +2 / -0

Based Feynman reference is based.

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magastrophysicist 2 points ago +2 / -0

Agreed completely.

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sometimescanbefunny 2 points ago +2 / -0

Also, went ahead and made my own post with that example I gave - I credited you with those quick maths.

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Zeriel 2 points ago +2 / -0

Math is Rayciiiissssstttt

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magastrophysicist 1 point ago +1 / -0

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE