The Scientific Method
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As a dude with a scientific background (I was originally going for a biology degree before I burned out on counting fruit flies in my Genetics class in college and made a hard pivot to IT), nothing infuriates me more than the Soy version of "science". It's made even worse by the circle-jerk reporting style of the "experts", where one reports something as fact, some other site reports on the first site, another site reports on that one, and it ends up as a stack of lies and false citations, until a site with clout, like Wikipedia, records it all as "fact", and now there's a new official site to point to. It's maddening.
I remember when I gave up on I Fucking Love Science. They had an article headline about "Scientists have discovered a way to reach Mars in 30 minutes".
My first thought was bullshit because Mars is 14 light minutes away when it is closest. So we apparently figured out how to travel damn near the speed of light and somehow stop.
When I read the article it was just a solar sail with a giant laser pointed at it. Old idea would take years to get up to speed and has no way to ever slow down.
Have never looked at their website again.
Shit like that is why I love hard sci-fi and absolutely hate it when people treat bubblegum sci-fi concepts as something that could be done in real life. They don't seem to get the notion that however long it takes you to get up to cruising speed, it'll take you exactly that long to slow back down. There's a reason why the ships in The Expanse flip at midpoint in a flight and why the Starfury fighters in Babylon 5 can shift and skate in combat, and these mouth breathers don't seem to get why.