So, we all get that faux news doesn't really get reality right?
Well it seems that Bill O rly, has taken another step of the deep end into utter stupidity, asking on air "F~@#in' Tides, how do they work?" (warning)
My dad often tells a story of how, when I was 5, he was reading to me in the bath. Being unable to read, there was nothing I loved more than being read too. It almost didn't matter what it was that was being read. On this occasion, my father was reading me the newspaper, and had read ahead and found an article about bemoaning the state of science education in this country, which said a sizeable minority of 12 year old couldn't explain why their is a night and a day, why their are tides and why their are seasons.
My father asked me if I knew these things, and sure enough, stark b!#~$+$s naked, I stand up and in my incredibly posh and precocious little voice declare "daddy, imagine this bar of soup is the earth and the light bulb is the sun..."
What followed was a accurate, if somewhat basic description of the cause of each of the phenomena listed.
What does it say about O rly that he does not really grasp a concept that very young children can learn by nothing more than watching the odd science documentary.
Even after gravitation effects on water have been explained to him, rather than saying, damn, sorry guys it was stupid, he says "F~@#in' Cosmology, how does that work?"
It is utterly hilarious that a faux news considers this guy fit to be a news achor, even by faux's low standards.
Oh, and O rly, Mars has two moons; Phobos and Deimos.
Venus probably lost its moon because of a destabilisation of their orbit, which caused venus' moon to impact into Venus, much like phobos is currently in the process of doing with mars.
I wonder if anyone is actually going to try to defend him on this ;)
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The man is actually quite smart and very well educated. I simply don't buy that he honestly didn't understand the basic physics governing the tides any more than I buy his patently ridiculous comments on the moon, how it got there and why other planets are different from ours.
He's not a newsman, he's an actor.
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The man is actually quite smart and very well educated. I simply don't buy that he honestly didn't understand the basic physics governing the tides any more than I buy his patently ridiculous comments on the moon, how it got there and why other planets are different from ours.
He's not a newsman, he's an actor.
In other words, he's supposed to randomly lie about stuff? Is that what a "no-spin zone" is?
The man is actually quite smart and very well educated. I simply don't buy that he honestly didn't understand the basic physics governing the tides any more than I buy his patently ridiculous comments on the moon, how it got there and why other planets are different from ours.
He's not a newsman, he's an actor.
He's a propaganda minister. A~%&@&*s like this guy give religions a bad name. And whoever allows him to be on TV helps.
I remember several years back, someone did a study of harvard graduates, asking them, "Why didn't the astronauts drift into space when they were walking on the moon?" And they were given some choices, I believe they were something like:
A. The astronauts had really heavy boots.
B. The astronauts were tied to the ground.
C. There is gravity on the moon.
D. The moon landing was faked on the Earth.
E. *something else I don't remember*
And over half of them said "A" (the correct answer is C of course).
I remember several years back, someone did a study of harvard graduates, asking them, "Why didn't the astronauts drift into space when they were walking on the moon?" And they were given some choices, I believe they were something like:
A. The astronauts had really heavy boots.
B. The astronauts were tied to the ground.
C. There is gravity on the moon.
D. The moon landing was faked on the Earth.
E. *something else I don't remember*And over half of them said "A" (the correct answer is C of course).
Harvard kids aren't necessarily that smart. Lots of them are just rich. If those results came from MIT, I'd be scared.
He's supposed to randomly lie about stuff?...faux news, remember.
Faux new indeed...
Faux views don't understand iraq
If he was smart he would just get blackmailed more.
We're giving this thread the stink-eye. Not thrilled with things which are designed to increase the level of grar here.
That isn't really the intention.
The first video won this years QQOQQ on YouTube, which is given for "the dumbest question asked in the expectation that their is no answer for it")
It is the funniest thing I have seen all day, and it is a question anyone here should understand it a dumb question. The only person who should feel Grar about this is maybe Bill O'Reilly.
The only intent is to share the video and the attendant LuLz with those who will find it funny. Sure, there has been discussion of fox news, and the wider behaviour of news corp, but seriously all things considered, both have earned little parody.