Worked as a physicist for 30 years, nobody talks like that. Everyone else in the room is to smart, and will slap you down for using absolutes.
I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh
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bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 3 weeks ago
>nobody
You should be slapped as well then.bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Well it’s about time someone picked up on that one. It was low hanging fruit.
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That explains why the Sith were rarely seen in the sciences.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Think you’d rather catch an art teacher saying that than a scientist tbh.
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bismuth has joined the chat
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Most scientists won’t say that there are no straight lines in nature, it’s so obviously and provably wrong. I think it’s more of a thing philosophically said when talking about how modern life is so different and unnatural compared to the lives of ancient people or animals.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I wonder if there’s any animals who see crystals in nature and think “wow that’s a really cool rock”.
laz@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Birds definitely think this. My local Magpies have definitely attempted bribery with cool rocks and shiny discarded human objects
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Without a doubt. It would be weirder if there weren’t.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
what is ‘natural’ life, being a sustenance farmer, and dying of starvation if you have a bad harvest?
Noobnarski@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agriculture is already somewhat unnatural, so I guess a “natural” life would be hunter gatherers.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
*subsistence
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Tbh, I’ve only ever heard it when talking about camouflage. And tbf in that context it is somewhat true, you’re harder to see if you break up those straight lines.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Glytch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And this is why absolute statements are generally bad arguments. It only takes one example to disprove them.
Superdooper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Only Siths deal in absolutes
lengau@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Mostly Siths deal in absolutes.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
No scientists ever said that.
Glytch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I didn’t say they did. I was commenting on the meme and speaking generally.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Wildcats are nature, they have multiple very sharp corners.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No need to go that far, I have one set of sharp ends sitting right on my lap. Also help, I’m trapped. :(
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Your lap has been chosen! You cannot move until you are allowed to move.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
just because someone calls themself a scientist doesnt mean they are, as evidenced by that post
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
what about evil wizards who call themselves scientists? legit, or no?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
big fat no
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Quite ironic.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Only a Fool would have missed this gold
MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Does it still have straight lines under a microscope?
Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That‘s the worst part: at an atomic scale, the fucker is made out of smaller… cubes
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Those appear to octahedrons
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
Does it still have straight lines if you look really closely?
Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Well, no. If you look closely enough, no lines exist.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, molecules rarely string linearly.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Technically fibers in wood is straight.
I want to say ice has straight edges
nehal3m@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I must confess, this sparked a laugh This pointiness, it’s nature’s gaff Give me a siiiiign Fool me baby one more time
5ha99y@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
As you can see the pyrite is pointy and not pointless
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
well done OP, you really stuck it to those stupid scientists
/s
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
those lines are never straight…
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We exist within nature, so nature created linear particle accelerators.
philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Hume pilled.
MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yo, these jokes hit different when you Big Brain!
MohamedMoney@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I can’t quite get over the fact that the premise is false
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
no science teacher would ever say that.
Light travels in a straight line, plenty of crystals, linear erosion, many trees evolved to be as straight as possible…
and to be esoteric, every object path, even when gravity affects them (they travel in a perfectly straight line, but it is spacetime that is curved).
mrsemi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Careful with those absolute statements there buddy. I was told the same by a teacher, who challenged the class to come up with natural examples of either straight lines or perfect circles. He talked about how such things cannot exist because at high enough resolution/magnification there will always be interruptions.
Your own example of light traveling in straight lines doesn’t account for the fact that photons are waves and absolutely do not travel in straight lines.
Krudler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We can say that spatially, the summation of the photons movement is linear, but everything in the universe is waves and curves and we all know that to be true
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I work in public education. That’s a pretty innocuous statement compared to some of the shit I’ve heard. Some teachers get so complacent in their lessons that they forget to apply it in their critical-thinking. Then, they have some crazy logical lapse, say something ridiculous out loud, and then some other kid from that class repeats that same shit to their own students when they grow up. These are mistakes that could easily be rectified with an apology or deliberate correction, but teachers are pushed so hard to prioritize being an authority figure that they sometimes forget to just be a teacher.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Memes like this are so dumb. Laugh tracks for the internet.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s useful as a navigational aid, if you’re lost in the woods keeping an eye open for straight lines, especially horizontal, is a good way of finding man made structures and potentially a way out. Beyond that, on a micro scale nature loves perfect geometry.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, it’s a very stupid concept made into a very stupid meme to make dumb people feel dopamine over the concept of scientists being allegedly dumber than them.
I really hate our species sometimes.