And this is why absolute statements are generally bad arguments. It only takes one example to disprove them.
I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh
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Glytch@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
No scientists ever said that.
Glytch@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I didn’t say they did. I was commenting on the meme and speaking generally.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
Wildcats are nature, they have multiple very sharp corners.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
just because someone calls themself a scientist doesnt mean they are, as evidenced by that post
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
what about evil wizards who call themselves scientists? legit, or no?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
big fat no
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 1 day ago
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.
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 1 day ago
>nobody
You should be slapped as well then.bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 1 day ago
Well it’s about time someone picked up on that one. It was low hanging fruit.
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That explains why the Sith were rarely seen in the sciences.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Think you’d rather catch an art teacher saying that than a scientist tbh.
MohamedMoney@feddit.org 1 day ago
I can’t quite get over the fact that the premise is false
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day 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).
fartographer@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
mrsemi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
no science teacher would ever say that.
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 1 day 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
glimse@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Memes like this are so dumb. Laugh tracks for the internet.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 day 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 23 hours 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.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 6 hours ago
Does it still have straight lines if you look really closely?
Zink@programming.dev 2 hours ago
Well, no. If you look closely enough, no lines exist.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Yeah, molecules rarely string linearly.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 22 hours 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.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
what is ‘natural’ life, being a sustenance farmer, and dying of starvation if you have a bad harvest?
Noobnarski@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Agriculture is already somewhat unnatural, so I guess a “natural” life would be hunter gatherers.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours 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.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 18 hours 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 9 hours ago
Birds definitely think this. My local Magpies have definitely attempted bribery with cool rocks and shiny discarded human objects
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bismuth has joined the chat
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Technically fibers in wood is straight.
I want to say ice has straight edges
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 day ago
Quite ironic.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Only a Fool would have missed this gold
MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Does it still have straight lines under a microscope?
nehal3m@lemmy.zip 1 day 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 1 day ago
As you can see the pyrite is pointy and not pointless
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
We exist within nature, so nature created linear particle accelerators.
philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
Hume pilled.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Straight line and sharp corners in almost all crystals.
Nice eg. in Ireland
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