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[Xteven Xavier]

I remember those bunny ear antenna that you'd have to mess with for like 5 minutes just to get a decent picture and sometimes you actually had to hold it in place while you watched your show, but that's when I was young, really young.

[lazlo falconi]

And putting aluminum foil on them to get even better signal. Man those weren't the days.

[Monkeydog]

And putting aluminum foil on them to get even better signal. Man those weren't the days.

I tried doing that yesterday for the wi-fi on the 360. Didn't work.

 

I think when I get frustrated with electronics and can't think of a way to fix them I end up just blowing on them and putting foil on them to hope that somehow fixes everything. 

[lazlo falconi]

It might have if you had made like a better cone shape out of the foil. If I recall correctly, wifi signals have a longer wavelength than broadcast TV, so the foil trick doesn't work as much unless it's directional.


Also since you can't actually touch the foil to the antenna, what with that plastic in the way, I think it acts more as a shield than anything else.

[Phalanxman]

So, I'm trying to get back into WSU and get a job at UPS. Could you guys say your mantras, prayers, or whatever you believe in? :P Pleeeeaaassseeee.

[Vicious Parker]

Uh... was gonna say good luck, but I only believe in the abstract concept of luck, and not the actual thing... so...

Go get 'em, tiger!
 

I guess..?

[lazlo falconi]

I wish you more luck than I've been having with jobs lately.

[Stars]

I'll be surprised if you have trouble getting back into WSU. But good luck with that anyway, and also with the UPS job.

[Xteven Xavier]

Knock em dead tiger!

[kspr]

knock em alive lion!

[Glaciermage]

It's a done deal. A MonkeyPro member can accomplish anything he/she sets his/her mind to. They can't spell WSU or UPS without U.

[Monkeydog]

Toys used to work for MP, so there is already a correlation of posting on MP and getting a job at UPS.

 

Good luck!

[Puffin]

My little sister has become an intolerable human being.

 

Even when I think I'm having a good conversation with her, she just becomes so utterly condescending. She's now an astronomy major and since switching her major, she acts and talks like she is an expert of all science ever and that no one deserves to speak about it in her presence without acknowldging her 'superior intellect'. She has even outright said that people who are not scientists (as if she's already one) should not dare try to comprehend the world around them, and that I'm 'just' an art major, so I shouldn't bother trying to compete on her level.

 

I generally try not to wish ill for other people just cuz they're being obnoxious, but I really, really hope she fails. It wouldn't be the first time she's suddenly decided she's going to be something and then act like a complete asshole about it, and she's already having weekly meltdowns because she's struggling to do her homework. At least then she'll finally shut up and quit trying to ruin one of my favorite subjects for me.

 

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[Monkeydog]

You should just super learn everything about Astronomy/science and then correct her every moment you have. 

[lazlo falconi]

Just tell her that any real scientist knows that science is for everyone.

[kspr]

tell her you hope she runs out of nuclear material and gets fat

[Puffin]

Sense and rationality are pointless to use against stupidity. I, and about everyone in my family, have made that point to her, Lazlo, and she just... doesn't get it. Her response is basically 'they can try to learn science, but they'll never really understand it.' and if you try to argue against that, she pulls the 'well, I'm a science major, so of course you wouldn't agree. cuz you don't know.'

 

And I already do that, monkey. it's basically where this conversation started. She was talking about how she believe that whatever caused the universe to form is what she believes god to be (yes, this started with a talk about religion, rather than science, which makes this all the more confusing to me), and stated 'so, if anti matter caused the big bang, then I believe anti matter is god. If it was gravitation, then that's god.' and my replied 'well, I don't think it'd be gravitation... I might be wrong, but I think gravitation is more of a result than a cause of the big bang, but okay. I can understand that thought.' and then she started arguing that I don't know what gravity is, and setting me up for questions like 'ok, what keeps us in orbit' (which doesn't make sense in context? It's not like even remotely said gravity didn't exist). The more I think about it, I really don't have any clue what she was arguing in favor of. Every point she made really had nothing to do with the big bang, gravity or her religious beliefs. It really just sounded like she was just saying a bunch of science terms that sound like they could go together. Like a bitchy spam bot or something.

[Monkeydog]

Does she know who Carl Sagan is?

[Puffin]

I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if she had absolutely no idea.

[Monkeydog]

Yeah she's stupid then.

 

You should counter her "science isn't for everybody" stance with people like Sagan and DeGrasse who will always be way better Astronomers  than she ever will who have firm stances that science should be for everyone.