the average person is an idiot to a message board full of university graduates/students who are inherently more intelligent than people who attended community college or didn't pursue a degree at all.

for the most part

4/29/2009 3:27:53 PM

As for my answers:

(d) Fall to the moon's surface towards the center of the the planet.
(b) The moon's gravity pulled the astronauts towards the center of the planet.

4/29/2009 3:28:13 PM

^^

this message board is not my entire world

is it yours?

4/29/2009 3:29:34 PM

Quote :

""the average person is an idiot.""

a / an does it matter on a internet message board? you're gonna pick over that and ignore the many thousands of other shortcuts, abbreviations, misspellings, improper word choices, and instances of poor grammar? really?

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"the average person is an idiot to a message board full of university graduates/students who are inherently more intelligent than people who attended community college or didn't pursue a degree at all. for the most part"

is the correct idea

[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 3:31 PM. Reason : s]

4/29/2009 3:29:48 PM

it was funny

idiot

4/29/2009 3:30:27 PM

not really

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"^^ this message board is not my entire world is it yours?"

what's your point here again?

[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 3:31 PM. Reason : s]

4/29/2009 3:31:16 PM

^^^yes, welcome to tww. it's nice to have you.

Quote :

"this message board is not my entire world is it yours?"

no, but this is where this thread lives and this is the population that is discussing this topic.

[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 3:31 PM. Reason : ]

4/29/2009 3:31:28 PM

but it is not the population we are talking about

4/29/2009 3:32:01 PM

Notice that most of the people who said how easy it was, didn't answer.

4/29/2009 3:32:24 PM

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"Registered : 8/23/2001 (2805.8 days ago)"

please spare me your 'welcome to tww'



[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 3:34 PM. Reason : hit edit to read hidden text]

4/29/2009 3:32:46 PM

^^wow, okay, so you're why i added "for the most part" to my previous statement.

^yeah, i know you're not new. hell i met you a couple of times back in the day, but you should know better. it's sarcasm.


[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 3:34 PM. Reason : ]

4/29/2009 3:33:09 PM

^^^

WE DO NOT NEED TO FUCKING ANSWER ABOUT "DOES SHIT FALL WHEN YOU DROP IT"

COME THE FUCK ON

THE MOON, THE SUN, FUCKING TITAN

GIVE ME A BREAK

[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 3:33 PM. Reason : .]

4/29/2009 3:33:19 PM

Well, it was kinda the point of the thread.

4/29/2009 3:39:02 PM

yeah, well

my patience wore thin

4/29/2009 3:40:14 PM

People get so fired up about these sorts of things.

4/29/2009 3:40:47 PM

your mom gets fired up by that dick I give her

[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 3:41 PM. Reason : \.]

4/29/2009 3:41:28 PM

Quote :

"Well, it was kinda the point of the thread. "

Arab13 would disagree. He even sent me a PM detailing as such.

Quote :

"From : Arab13 To : IRSeriousCat Received : Wednesday April 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM Subject : really? you don't know why people aren't posting answers? b/c if you post them others that don't know the correct answers will either copy them or not post them when they find out they are wrong. D and B respectively :carlface: "

He apparently holds this belief with such conviction that he went through the added effort of including it in the thread through the magic of hidden text

4/29/2009 3:43:51 PM

i love this place

4/29/2009 3:44:05 PM

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~det/phy2060/heavyboots.html

werds

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"Heavy Boots About 6-7 years ago, I was in a philosophy class at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (good science/engineering school) and the teaching assistant was explaining Descartes. He was trying to show how things don't always happen the way we think they will and explained that, while a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just float away if you let go of it on the Moon. My jaw dropped a little. I blurted "What?!" Looking around the room, I saw that only my friend Mark and one other student looked confused by the TA's statement. The other 17 people just looked at me like "What's your problem?" "But a pen would fall if you dropped it on the Moon, just more slowly." I protested. "No it wouldn't." the TA explained calmly, "because you're too far away from the Earth's gravity." Think. Think. Aha! "You saw the APOLLO astronauts walking around on the Moon, didn't you?" I countered, "why didn't they float away?" "Because they were wearing heavy boots." he responded, as if this made perfect sense (remember, this is a Philosophy TA who's had plenty of logic classes). By then I realized that we were each living in totally different worlds, and did not speak each others language, so I gave up. As we left the room, my friend Mark was raging. "My God! How can all those people be so stupid?" I tried to be understanding. "Mark, they knew this stuff at one time, but it's not part of their basic view of the world, so they've forgotten it. Most people could probably make the same mistake." To prove my point, we went back to our dorm room and began randomly selecting names from the campus phone book. We called about 30 people and asked each this question: 1 1. If you're standing on the Moon holding a pen, and you let go, will it a) float away, b) float where it is, or c) fall to the ground? About 47 percent got this question correct. Of the ones who got it wrong, we asked the obvious follow-up question: 2. You've seen films of the APOLLO astronauts walking around on the Moon, why didn't they fall off? About 20 percent of the people changed their answer to the first question when they heard this one! But the most amazing part was that about half of them confidently answered, "Because they were wearing heavy boots." MORE ON THE BURNING QUESTION OF HEAVY BOOTS I decided to settle this question once and for all. Therefore, I put two multiple choice questions on my Physics 111 test, after the study of elementary mechanics and gravity. 13. If you are standing on the Moon, and holding a rock, and you let it go, it will: (a) float away (b) float where it is (c) move sideways (d) fall to the ground (e) none of the above 25. When the Apollo astronauts wre on the Moon, they did not fall off because: (a) the Earth's gravity extends to the Moon (b) the Moon has gravity (c) they wore heavy boots (d) they had safety ropes (e) they had spiked shoes The response showed some interesting patterns! The first question was generally of average difficulty, compared with the rest of the test: 57% got it right. The second question was easier: 73% got it right. So, we need more research to explain the people who got #25 right but did not get #13 right! The second interesting point is that these questions proved to be excellent discriminators: that is, success on these two questions proved to be an extremely good predictor of overall success on the test. On the first question, 92% of those in the upper quarter of the test score got it right; only 20% of those in the bottom quarter did. They generally chose answers (a) or (b). On the second question, 97% in the upper quarter got it right and 33% in the lower quarter did. The big popular choice of this group was (c)...33% chose heavy boots, followed closely by safety ropes at 27%. A telling comment on the issue of fairness in teaching elementary physics: Two students asked if I was going to continue asking them about things they had never studied in the class. "

4/29/2009 3:45:20 PM

I got one too!

Quote :

" From : Arab13 To : SymeGuy69 Received : Wednesday April 29, 2009 at 3:33 PM Subject : really? you don't know why people aren't posting answers? b/c if you post them others that don't know the correct answers will either copy them or not post them when they find out they are wrong. D and B respectively :carlface: "

4/29/2009 3:45:36 PM

my favorite part is that he was so adamant about withholding the answers from people yet was simultaneously compelled to post them for everyone to illustrate that he knew the answers.

the depths of that mans hubris knows no bounds, even when its in conflict.

4/29/2009 3:46:22 PM

lol

Arab13 called out for the weirdness over such a ridiculously simple topic

4/29/2009 3:47:07 PM

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"As we left the room, my friend Mark was raging. “My God! How can all those people be so stupid?” I tried to be understanding. “Mark, they knew this stuff at one time, but it’s not part of their basic view of the world, so they’ve forgotten it. Most people could probably make the same mistake.”"

4/29/2009 3:48:25 PM

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"your mom gets fired up by that dick I give her"

dude... you just admitted to having a std.

[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 3:58 PM. Reason : .]

4/29/2009 3:56:22 PM

fired up rash

4/29/2009 3:57:48 PM

no way man

SymeGuy69's mom was a virgin when I got to her

4/29/2009 3:58:13 PM

so now you gave a virgin a std? that's fucked up.

4/29/2009 3:59:20 PM

lulz, such fun today!

4/29/2009 4:01:34 PM

People guess that objects released on the moon will float away and that astronauts wore heavy boots because the closest thing they've experienced to low gravity is being under water. So they subconsciously assume being on the moon is like being under water.

4/29/2009 4:01:53 PM

(d) and (b)

Believe it or not, we're not all clinically retarded.

4/29/2009 4:01:57 PM

i think in the case of the guy here at work, he thought that b/c the moon has no atmosphere, it has no gravity. or he confused the two.

4/29/2009 4:03:09 PM

wow that was very entertaining here at the end of a long day

4/29/2009 4:06:17 PM

Arab13 cracks me up. You guys don't even know when you're getting trolled anymore.

4/29/2009 4:18:32 PM

ha, i saw this on digg last week and almost made a thread.

but i don't want to be that guy who reposts digg topics.

4/29/2009 4:24:43 PM

4/29/2009 4:30:52 PM

If you are on the Moon holding a rock, and you let it go, it will:
(a) float away
(b) float where it is
(c) move sideways
(d) fall to the ground
(e) none of the above

When the Apollo astronauts were on the Moon, they did not fall off because:
(a) the Earth's gravity extends to the Moon
(b) the Moon has gravity
(c) they wore heavy boots
(d) they had safety ropes
(e) they had spiked shoes

4/29/2009 4:37:18 PM

^ holy shit are you serious???

4/29/2009 4:38:12 PM

i was just answering...i've been away most of the afternoon and didn't read the first two pages of the pissing contest to see that this thread had gone in that direction until after i posted

carry on with the pissing

4/29/2009 4:41:05 PM

4/29/2009 4:46:53 PM

turn that frown upside down!

4/29/2009 4:54:56 PM

carry on.


[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 5:07 PM. Reason : hmph.]

4/29/2009 5:03:34 PM

I knew the answers immediately

I asked my wife and she answered (a) and (d). I had to laugh in her face for that one. When I explained the correct answers, she claimed they were "trick questions."

She is a 2nd grade teacher (and is certified for grades K-6)

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At work, our process involves a chamber in low vacuum (like 50 Pa worth). My co-worker was saying he was wondering what would happen to a cockroach inside the chamber in this state. He mentions that it would be a kind of space-like environment, to which another co-worker commented "oh.. so the cockroach will float away"

The "float away" guy is a 44-year old black guy raised and living in Statesville.

HAHA!

[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 5:12 PM. Reason : ]

4/29/2009 5:11:10 PM

If you are on the Moon holding a rock, and you let it go, it will:
(a) float away
(b) float where it is
(c) move sideways
(d) fall to the ground
(e) none of the above - why the fuck would you be holding a rock on the moon?

When the Apollo astronauts were on the Moon, they did not fall off because:
(a) the Earth's gravity extends to the Moon
(b) the Moon has gravity
(c) they wore heavy boots
(d) they had safety ropes
(e) they had spiked shoes
(f) the flying spaghetti monster used his noodlely appendage to keep them there

4/29/2009 5:12:21 PM

^^hahaha

4/29/2009 5:17:00 PM

^^^ his guts would boil (referring to the cockroach)

4/29/2009 5:35:19 PM

the moon rover takes off from the gyro operated forward moving track simulator.

4/29/2009 5:41:49 PM

Quote :

"If you are on the Moon holding a rock, and you let it go, some moon crackhead will swoop in and grab it before it hits the ground."

lol

[Edited on April 29, 2009 at 7:24 PM. Reason : but this poll doesn't really surprise me]

4/29/2009 7:24:18 PM

k, so back to the subject of my stupid coworker.

he JUST figured out that vaccines are used as a preventative measure BEFORE you contract an illness...that they don't treat the illness itself.

JEEBUS CHRIST

4/30/2009 5:42:23 PM

Sounds like you need to make a thread dedicated to that guy, we post questions for you to ask him and you reply with his answers.

4/30/2009 5:49:29 PM

^i like this idea

4/30/2009 5:53:47 PM