2/26 How many people find the old Caloric Theory by Antoine Lavoisier
to be really fucked up? He theorized that heat is a
weightless substance that penetrates through materials. Equally
fucked up is how Count Rumford, the guy who tried to destroy
Lavoisier's reputation with the Theory of Thermodynamics
ended up marrying Lavoisier's wife after Lavoisier was beheaded.
Man, scientists are sick.
\_ Obviously not right now that we know a hell of a lot
more != whack.
\_ Detroying another man's reputation, then marrying his widow
= whack.
\_ I so want to do this to my brother-in-law.
\_ why?
\_ You want to marry your sister?
\_ It's my wife's brother. I love his wife.
\_ Caught some of this in the NOVA program on Absolute Zero:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero
Yup, absolutely whack.
\_ Cool we have same interests! We should start a club of
PBS watching sexless geeks. -op, no lay guy #3
\_ Sorry, man, I'm happy, hornily married.
\_ Damnit. Why the hell are you watching PBS? It's like
a straight guy wearing metrosexual clothes. It really
messes up the dating pool for gay men.
\_ I'm really going to screw things up for you by telling
you that I just finished Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii
last night, too, aren't I.
\_ Scientists are human too. They want fame, they are horny, they have
rivals and enemies, they do little dirty things to get what they
want.
want. Just like other humans.
\_ Sure. And some other humans are whack, too.
\_ Exactly why the liberal ideology of trusting everyone and
giving everyone the exact same rights while holding hands
and singing kum-bai-ya and sharing mass transportation won't
work. People are whackos beyond help. Better to just fence up.
\_ Sounds like a pretty good explaination of Infrared Radiation,
a piece of heat transfer. Not too wacky. |