Math - A Cheap Superstition?

flatearther · #11 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by George O Well

>>>Good math accounts for those variables. Otherwise, it's just more bad math.

Couldn't agree more, mate, but the point is, if you're into that sort of thing and it's better than sex for you, then go for it. But let's not rape the ones that aren't too revved up about it. In most cases it's a waste of effort. I've seen them get 'trained' to within an inch of their lives, only to see them jump the coop at the slightest opportunity. Cheers!

George O Well · #12 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 06:01 PM

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But let's not rape the ones that aren't too revved up about it.

>>>I ain't going to rape anybody. I DO hate to see people rape themselves (aside from the physical impracticality). And I am aware that there are millions of math luddites out there.

flatearther · #13 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by George O Well

>>>I ain't going to rape anybody. I DO hate to see people rape themselves (aside from the physical impracticality). And I am aware that there are millions of math luddites out there.

Well said. And I'd get the iconoclasts a new image while I was at it. Cheers!

Suburbanite · #14 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 09:17 PM

i think applied mathmatics is the way to go, teach a kid to build a house or design an engine, like in star trek, everyone can do everything

cottonbroker · #15 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by flatearther

Well, it is, like, a kind of - how can I put this politely..........um, ah, er,.....well, ok, let me just blurt it right out, since you've forced my back against the wall.......I assumed this
was a ..........a DEBATING FORUM! Yes, I admit it, and I'd do it again and again and again............ah, ha ha ha ha ha!

By the way, notice how my thread "Racism?" - no such thing - has been churning through the waves and getting the punters in through the gates? That's the spirit....if'n ya gits mah drift, pardner? Cheers!

Study your fibonacchi numbers, try to understand them and check back. The last person I met from Australia could only count to three and coincidently that is how many teeth he had, three.

flatearther · #16 (**permalink**) 03-19-2008, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by cottonbroker

Study your fibonacchi numbers, try to understand them and check back. The last person I met from Australia could only count to three and coincidently that is how many teeth he had, three.

Well, man, it comes down to this. There's them that can read, there's them that can write, & there's them what can count. And I'm three of them. Cheers!

Suburbanite · #17 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 02:24 AM

what i think school needs less of is science. I mean, make it available, but as an elective. i dont know why they made me cut open a frog, or that sheeps brain, but rest assured, i forgot

flatearther · #18 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 04:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Suburbanite

what i think school needs less of is science. I mean, make it available, but as an elective. i dont know why they made me cut open a frog, or that sheeps brain, but rest assured, i forgot

You may not realise just how big a nail you just knocked on the noggin. How many times have most poor sods been able to apply something as useless as Euclidean geometry in their every day lives? Most educational facilities are just human versions of battery egg production on steroids. I'd go further. Let's delete the really useless faculties like the Philosophy departments. Let them have it as a hobby by all means, just don't feed the bastards out of the public trough. Now there's an idea for a thread.....................no, no, after you, I insist. Cheers!

nathanbforrest45 · #19 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 10:23 AM

One thing is that mathematicians never become constipated. They can always work it out with a pencil

Actually, our entire knowledge of the unseen and the untouchable is based on mathematical models. How far away is the Orion Nebula? Well since we can't take our little wheel on the end of a stick and roll it out there we need another way of making that measurement. Math to the rescue. Of course there will be those who will claim we don't need to know how far the Orion Nebula is since we ain't going there anyway but that is one use for math

flatearther · #20 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 03:48 AM

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nathanbforrest45;345234]

Actually, our entire knowledge of the unseen and the untouchable is based on mathematical models.

Not quite. When the boys were working out the critical mass of U235, they found they had to kick Einstein's artwork to the kerb and use good old fashioned 'foot-in-the-bucket' chemistry & physics to get close to it. It's ok when you're dealing with harmless stuff like astrology, but when it comes to really scary stuff that goes 'bang' or 'zap' in a mega big way, you need good, practical insurance. Not much good singing the sad songs afterwards.

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How far away is the Orion Nebula? Well since we can't take our little wheel on the end of a stick and roll it out there we need another way of making that measurement. Math to the rescue. Of course there will be those who will claim we don't need to know how far the Orion Nebula is since we ain't going there anyway but that is one use for math

Quite so. Not much harm in an orgy of harmless fantasy, so math is obviously a large slice of the world's entertainment cake, much of which is padded with literally mountains of really useless 'information'. Which opens the door to the numerology, spiritual and 'healing' crowd as well. Can't leave the loonies & the loopies out either, so we let 'em calculate how many times the critters from the Crab Nebula have been eyeing off our planet. My own pet theory of UFO's is that it's just bored teenagers on Orion borrowing the family UFO for the weekend (1,000,000years) and zotting over here with fishbowls & antennae on their heads, going 'bleep!'. Nothing much changes, does it? Cheers!