When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth.
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Temporarily blind and gasping in my own private world of consequences, I was unaware of the cone of devastation that I had unleashed upon the unluckier segment of my audience, occupying roughly one steradian of solid angle to my front.
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When I finally recovered my senses and the cycle of whooping inhalation and coughing fits had exhausted itself, I was greeted not by the concern that I felt such a brush with death merited, but with a disgust that later reflection suggests may not have been wholly unwarranted.
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So, anyway, whenever you read "some scientists think", think about me and recalibrate the lower end of your expectations accordingly.
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An unrolled version of the thread can be found here:
https://diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/some-scientists-think/
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@micefearboggis This is why scientists need engineers
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@micefearboggis Comment from Reviewer 2: please tell me there's footage.
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@vic Fortunately, this was before the smart phone era.
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Science: I wonder if we can do this?
Engineering: I wonder what happens if we do this?
Philosophy: I wonder if we should do this? -
@micefearboggis @vic This description is much funnier than a smartphone video could ever be
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@micefearboggis Now go ahead and have a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobstopper
You know you want to.
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@gunchleoc @micefearboggis Yes, well, I'd still pay to see this re-enacted & maybe narrated by Edward Norton.
"With a whole orange stuffed in your mouth, you speak only in vowels."
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@vic @micefearboggis And in nasal vowels at that
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@[email protected] oh! You're the orange-in-mouth guy!!
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