Skepchick Quickies 6.28
- The beer archaeologist – Best science job ever? From Liz.
- Outcry as pregnant women who lose babies face murder charges – “Gibbs became pregnant aged 15, but lost the baby in December 2006 in a stillbirth when she was 36 weeks into the pregnancy. When prosecutors discovered that she had a cocaine habit – though there is no evidence that drug abuse had anything to do with the baby’s death – they charged her with the “depraved-heart murder” of her child, which carries a mandatory life sentence.”
- Engineers, sign a petition saying fire can melt steel -For those of us who don’t have bumper stickers that say, “9/11 was an inside job.”
- Creationist school appears out of nowhere – From w_nightshade.
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15 Comments
NoAstronomer
06.28.2011
I remember as a young child watching a program on television about a volcano that was erupting at the time. I asked my mother what lava was and she replied that lava was molten rock.
My response was that that was silly – rock doesn’t melt. Her next statement destroyed any illusion I had that the world I lived in was even remotely safe : “If it gets hot enough anything will melt”.
If you don’t believe steel can melt or at least become pliable – how do you think they make I-beams in the first place? Do you think they dig them up?
Mike.
Mark Hall
06.28.2011
Don’t you know ANYTHING? Of course they dig them up. They dig them up in the shape of crosses, which the heathen engineers then break apart.
catgirl
06.28.2011
To be fair, some things will burn or decompose before they melt.
hkdharmon
06.28.2011
That’s brilliant.
NoAstronomer
06.28.2011
/snort
scribe999
06.28.2011
regarding bringing murder charges for miscarriages…I really wish Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale didn’t seem so goddamn prescient sometimes.
John Greg
06.28.2011
Bingo!
Rei Malebario
06.28.2011
Wait, if fire couldn’t melt steel, would it even be possible to make steel in the first place? I kind of thought steel was something you made out of iron in a process involving melting it. Possibly with fire. I could be wrong. I’m no metallurgist, me.
robm
06.28.2011
That’s what the government wants you think with all their physics and chemistry! No one had ever heard of blacksmiths or steel mills until 2003!
Buzz Parsec
06.28.2011
So it all goes back to Donald Rumsfeld who is secretly in cahoots with George Soros and the (ISC) International Steel Cabal?[*]
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[*] I refuse to Google this because it will almost certainly turn out to be a real conspiracy theory and my hay fever is so bad that my brain wouldn’t take the pressure and would explode.
mrmisconception
06.28.2011
Ha, shows what you know. With all that nasal pressure and the reduction in brain capacity caused by teh external stupid your head would actually implode.
Buzz Parsec
06.29.2011
If steel is made out of iron, why is there still iron? Answer me that, Mr. Scientist!
DataJack
06.29.2011
OMFG, COTW! Why is there still iron, indeed!
Buzz Parsec
06.29.2011
<gloat>Proves my theory: If you throw out enough bad jokes, someone is bound to be amused by one of them</gloat> Thanks!
weatherwax
06.30.2011
COTW
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