This is a hoax right? Or some sort of arcane magic? I wouldn't want one in my house. Who knows what it would do next? When you can no longer predict function by form, ANYTHING can happen.
Okay, time for stinky garlic fries. Sorry, co-workers.
Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.
Willow ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2011 11:12:10 am PDT #2668 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
askye - Oct 21, 2011 11:14:05 am PDT #2669 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
ita I've seen a fan like that in the store. It actually felt nice. Maybe it was at Costco so it wasn't $499, but it was this magic circle of cool air.
le nubian - Oct 21, 2011 11:18:02 am PDT #2670 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita,
I think of most anthropologists as social scientists. Why do you believe your sister is not a scientist?
Do you mean she does not practice hard sciences?
Liese S. - Oct 21, 2011 11:24:26 am PDT #2671 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh yeah, totally. Not only was it on Ask This Old House, but I've seen them at the store and, predictably, stuck my arm through it. I now believe that it is, in fact, a fan, however I also have concluded that my arm has superhealing powers.
I am also the sort of person who opens drawers at museums marked "Open This" with no other indication as to what it contains, so I am not really to be trusted with accurate product testing.
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2011 11:27:43 am PDT #2672 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know what definition of science would include what my sister studies or does. It's a discipline, but what makes anything a science?
Typo Boy - Oct 21, 2011 11:29:00 am PDT #2673 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Dyson fans use fairly well known principles. And the function is dependent on the form. Just not the form you are used to.
Tom Scola - Oct 21, 2011 11:29:50 am PDT #2674 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Okay--definition of scientist--does it include a) anthropologists b) archaeologists c) lingusts?
They all are sciences. But I don't know any other sciences that have a bigger history of attracting racist/xenophobic/hypernationalist/religious/or-just-plain crackpots than these. Maybe geology. I wouldn't blame anyone who wanted to be extra careful of checking the credentials of anyone in these fields.
Jesse - Oct 21, 2011 11:31:43 am PDT #2675 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That makes as much sense as my JD entitling me to be addressed as "Doctor". Heh.
Doo eet!!
lisah - Oct 21, 2011 11:33:06 am PDT #2676 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I have a BS in film. I am a movie scientist!
le nubian - Oct 21, 2011 11:36:08 am PDT #2677 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So, I think that "scientist" tends to have a much narrower connotation than "science." But I work in social sciences so I may have a perspective that someone in the natural and physical sciences do not.
I think science refers to a systematic way of gaining knowledge about the physical, natural world or of people and societies.
So I don't think (broadly) literary studies are science, but psychology is.