What a black hole looks like up close, according to NASA

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Conservapedia believes it does… :woman_shrugging:

I think it’s more that they don’t understand what “theory” means in science… they think theory is an opinion, not a working hypothesis… They are putting observation ahead of other kinds of testing methodologies.

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Good point. A side-effect of thinking facts are just a matter of opinion?

I think it’s also a distrust of anything they don’t personally understand, which is most things frankly; the anti-intellectualism of the right you so often aptly point out.

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“That’s just your education talking!” once said by a relative of a friend.

Unfortunately as these clowns get farther and farther away from reality, they have to reject more and more scientific stuff. Yet they happily use cell phones, GPS, and SUVs, however poorly.

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Exactly… and thinking scientific theories are just opinions…

No ability to trust expertise in others!

Well, these scienctists come out of those marxist institutions known as “public universities” so we can’t trust those guys! /s

I kind of want to know what the context of that was - like was it relevant to your formal training, and hence, well, yes, it IS your education talking!

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No to mention falsifiability as ‘foundational’ in science is hooey.

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The vid sped by pretty quick, as if it had been sucked into a black hole.

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If that’s really what you want to see, here’s a series of videos from astrophysicist Andrew Hamilton and his students. As noted, it’s not an artistic representation. It’s a simulation modeled on a supercomputer at the University of Colorado.

Inside Black Holes
https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/index.html

Journey into a Schwarzschild black hole:
https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/schw.html

Journey into and through a Reissner-Nordström black hole:
https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/rn.html

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https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/bh_accretiondisk_sim_stationary_websize.gif(image larger than 4096KB)

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The event horizon:

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I have a distrust of science… but all Scorpios are like that…

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

During Apert, the avout of the Concent of Saunt Edhar found slines easy to identify by their posture, outlandish fashions and apparent pride in the lack of education.

(emphases mine)

I’ll be the first to advocate for critical thinking skills any day, over education per se.
But in my experience both are necessary to get good thinking done.

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I had to check Conservapedia up on Wikipedia to make sure it wasn’t a satirical site.

According to Conservapedia, Wikipedia is, " Wikipedia is an online wiki-based encyclopedia hosted and owned by the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation and financially supported by grants from left-leaning foundations plus an aggressive annual online fundraising drive.[1] Most of Wikipedia’s articles can be edited publicly by both registered and anonymous editors,[2] mostly consisting of teenagers and the unemployed.[3] As such, it tends to project a liberal—and, in some cases, even socialist, Communist, and Nazi-sympathising—worldview, which is totally at odds with conservative reality and rationality." WTF?

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The good news is you’ll be much younger than your colleagues when you get there

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Yeah - “fascinating” in doesn’t mean it’s also not extremely worrying. I checked out the article for a lark and came away feeling uncomfortable just reading the synopsis and introduction. What a grotesque attempt to undermine scientific thinking.

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They don’t just deny science, they deny black captains, too!

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Yep, that tracks!

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To be fair, except for the first and last sections, for the most part, the rest of it seems to be perfectly reasonable copy-paste. that would make any 6th grader happy.

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I think that’s totally what they did… copy-pasted (probably from wikipedia) and then injected in their anti-intellectual, anti-science screed around it…

Not a 6th grader who cares about science! :rofl:

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