Pine Cones Are Complicated
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robotnik2004I'm off to Canada, hunting for jobs, the most dangerous game of all. Everyone be good while I'm gone/there! (Alas, I won't make it to Toronto. Nobody seems to want me there. DRAMATIC SIGH.) ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ratmmjess, great to meet you! jeregenest, keep healing! Everyone else, go visit the Creationist Science Fair. Courtesy of my friend Steve (still LJ-less and couch-less, but now with pants).
Edit: Yes, the creationist site is a fake, but an elaborate one. Which is greater: the effort people will put into web hoaxes, or the crackpottery of creationists? Kind of an irresistible force/immovable object problem, come to think of it. I'm still amused by excerpts like this:
Patricia Lewis (grade 8) did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.
ratmmjess, great to meet you! jeregenest, keep healing! Everyone else, go visit the Creationist Science Fair. Courtesy of my friend Steve (still LJ-less and couch-less, but now with pants).Edit: Yes, the creationist site is a fake, but an elaborate one. Which is greater: the effort people will put into web hoaxes, or the crackpottery of creationists? Kind of an irresistible force/immovable object problem, come to think of it. I'm still amused by excerpts like this:
Patricia Lewis (grade 8) did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.
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No. 32: The Little Pine Marten
Date: 2005-01-20 12:55 pm (UTC)We'll probably be Toronto-ish sometime this summer, so maybe we'll see if we can do a north-of-the-border meetup with you and
Re: No. 32: The Little Pine Marten
Date: 2005-01-20 01:49 pm (UTC)Re: No. 32: The Little Pine Marten
Date: 2005-01-20 02:47 pm (UTC)No, they will shoot you on sight as a fugitive POA (Prisoner of Academia). However, we have some connections in the French-Canadian underground, and I'm sure we can smuggle you in--and hopefully out again-- in a mailbag. Or an enormous tarte au sucre. Or Bonhomme du neige. Or something.
Just keep practicing that Quebecois accent. . .
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Date: 2005-01-20 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-20 02:32 pm (UTC)Oooooo!!
Date: 2005-01-21 11:00 pm (UTC)If Steve was here, he'd probably want you to see this:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/021969.htm
Given that it's just *another* random site on the internet -- although one that's a little more established -- it's not exactly conclusive, but the folks at urbanlegends do think those wacky creationists aren't so wacky after all. Wait. Maybe they don't think they're so creationist, after all. Either way, they have a cool link to panties said creationist site is selling; it probably is the final element that allows us to say: hoax.
Well slap my ass and call me Alice...
Date: 2005-01-22 09:07 pm (UTC)