• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    7 days ago

    haw haw haw stupid science people, idiots! Don’t they know it takes more power?! Stupid idiots, my candle theory clearly invalidates all of their research and stupid “degrees”.

    Seriously this is a facebook level comment here. Do you truly not understand how science works, iterative processes, incremental progress?

    • Erik@discuss.online
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      7 days ago

      I took that comment as criticizing dumbed-down science reporting and/or being suspicious of reported breakthroughs from China.

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        7 days ago

        I don’t get why people still doubt China on tech progress. “Hur dur they’re commies so they had to have faked it! There’s just no incentive for them to be smart and driven because America, number one btw, has all the money.”

        Like yeah, the country we’ve exported nearly all of our tech and manufacturing to for 40 years definitely has no idea how anything works, guys. Keep doubting.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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        7 days ago

        Yeah well I guess I’m done being nice to people who think this way. We didn’t use to belittle science like this, we weren’t so afraid of it. We used to respect people for striving to learn more, not belittle them. I’m tired of listening to people belittle scientists because of their own issues.

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          5 days ago

          You took a great deal of liberty in interpreting my comment. There is no anti-intellectualism there. That’s all in your head. My statement “I can create plasma using a candle and a microwave” was aimed at the reporters.

          When the research is aimed at eventually building a power plant, then running the process for several minutes without even guesstimating an efficiency factor (or not reporting on it) seems very odd. We can be sure that energy was set free, which the researches must have had to dispose of somehow. I can’t imagine that they just blindly dumped it somehow without even checking how close their dumping process was to failing.

          If you’d like to know what a constructive answer would’ve looked like, this is one: https://feddit.nl/comment/15463960