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  • #46
    Ben is a liar. He got them all wrong and still doesn't agree with them after he saw the right answers.
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    • #47
      Ben is a liar. He got them all wrong and still doesn't agree with them after he saw the right answers.
      This is the definition of 'cognitive dissonance'.
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      • #48
        To be fair, Roman Catholics are not creationists.
        If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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        • #49
          Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
          To be fair, Roman Catholics are not creationists.
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          • #50


            Same Quiz, only waaaaaaaaaaaay Faster.
            Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

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            • #51
              Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
              48/50. Only missed the Nyx/Eris question and nimbus clouds. Overall I thought it was pretty easy.
              Yeah, it was probably easy, but try again in some 30 years. Bet that you will have problems remembering the periodic system

              The test is fine for young people that still haven't decided what they want to forget.
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              • #52
                As I've just set myself on the (very long) path of becoming a professional scientist, I hope I still know the answers to those questions 30 years down the road.
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                • #53
                  Belive me, you won't. Much of it is worthless knowledge unless you use it in work.
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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by BlackCat View Post
                    Yeah, it was probably easy, but try again in some 30 years. Bet that you will have problems remembering the periodic system

                    The test is fine for young people that still haven't decided what they want to forget.
                    Science was first on my list. Followed closely by math.

                    I did fairly well on the astronomy questions though.
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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by Lorizael View Post
                      As I've just set myself on the (very long) path of becoming a professional scientist, I hope I still know the answers to those questions 30 years down the road.
                      Depends on what kind of scientist. Biology will make you memorize an entirely new taxonomy by the time you graduate, but physics probably won't change all that much.
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                      • #56
                        Biology is almost as much a foreign language as it is a science.
                        If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                        • #57
                          I did the less annoying one: 40/50 though I am not really science minded.
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                          • #58
                            HC:

                            In the past scientists used to study latin and greek. Imagine that.
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                            • #59
                              In the past scientists believed the sun revolved around the earth. Imagine that.

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                              • #60
                                In the past scientists believed the sun revolved around the earth. Imagine that.
                                Yep, thank God for Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, overthrowing Latin and Ptolemy at the same time.
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