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Name: Philip
Country: United States
State: Ohio
Metro: Cincinnati
Birthday: 3/12/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: Science-y stuff (How odd...my major is CHEMISTRY)
Expertise: People have said I am very smart and fairly intelligent and some have said that I can help people with their problems. I can teach decently too
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
2/3/2005
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| So I was riding in the car with my father who had to listen to some moron on talk radio. I don't know which one, but he was spouting off about science. OOOOO, I was seething. It was a global warming issue.
He used the thermodynamic definition of temperature, which is something like this: measures the relative heat of a system at thermodynamic equilibrium. He, and some caller, were saying that you can't measure the temperature of the Earth since the Earth is not at a thermodynamic equilibrium. In I shall step with an actual scientific view. NOTHING is really at thermodynamic equilibrium, that is what "dynamic" means, ergo "thermodynamic" means that "thermo" is changing. Also, temperature measure the average kinetic energy of the molecules, anything and everything, looking at it that way, has a temperature, anything can be averaged. Oh the beauty of math!
That is how we measure the temperature of the Earth, take an average over the whole damn planet! MORONS!
I was very close to calling in and calling them out on their lack of scientific knowledge.
Next, this guy was talking about conservation. He said that we should conserve, and I agree completely. Recycle, don't use all of Earth's natural resources, shit like that. So he said that using all of a natural resource to depletion is idiocy. Here I come again: OIL. This dummkopf had started off the bit I had heard with reasons to drill in Anwar (that is Alaska for the geographically disabled) and the only reason he was saying that the "Liberals" didn't want to drill was "pristine beauty". SO WHAT! Lets just the whole fucking planet 'cause "Pristine beauty" is no arguement against it. Hey, I heard there may be oil around the grand canyon, lets use some TNT to blow a huge fucking hole there and find no oil...oh, "pristine beauty" is no argument here, we need that fucking OIL!
Also, what was that you said about not using all of Earth's resources to depletion...HYPOCRIT!
Once again, I wanted to call in.
Next I hear the guitar riff for "American Idiot" and I was happy. Then it turns out that it was an advertisement for Sean Hannity. WTF! Does he not realize that that song is about him, Sean Hannity, you are an American Idiot.
I guess that I shall end with a quote:
"Well maybe I'm the fagot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda!" | | |
| More to come about the rapeing of science, hypocrisy, and idiocy. | | |
| So I have passed physics with a C+ and will be graduating this Saturday. And I feel sad.
I was leaving the lab this evening and came to the realization that that was the last time I would be in Kettering as a student. I was also thinking about what my advisor and her husband, another professor, said; she pointed out that I was her first advisee, he said that next year will be weird without seeing me on campus.
I have been here for 5 years, and for the last two and a half have only gone home for short stretches, the longest being 4 weeks. I have done research for the past two summers, but not this summer; all of the researchers are graduating.
Band tour is tomorrow, I kinda wish I just had a day here with nothing to do; hang out with friends and people that I will most likely never see again.
But then again, commencement is this Saturday at 10. I am giddy! | | |
| So Avenue Q was amazing. The weekend pretty much just kicked ass.
If I make it past Tuesday, everything else will be mostly downhill. Energy flows from high to low potential.
26 days left. | | |
| There are 30 days left.
30 days until a graduate.
30 days to get everything done. | | |
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