Sirius

[SlayerOfLight]

I just got back from work and I don't really have much fuel left in me to write a huge wall of text about it, so I'll let this video do the talking from now on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... J9B11JUYFA


My personal opinion: I don't think this is real. I just created this topic to find out what others think about it, and to make MLK a bit more interesting. No, I don't believe in little men from mars (or whatever planet) and neither is there any proof that the spicemen in this documentary is real. However, I kinda admit that this would make me more or less a hypocrite because I as a Christian also can't prove the existence of God directly. I'm not trying to be a hypocrite, but for some reason I just have a harder time believing in intelligent alien life then an almighty being.


So, what are your opinions about it?

[Regulus]

Nice CGI.

[DGFone]

When people who never took a science class in their life start playing scientist...

[Woeler]

[quote="DGFone"]When people who never took a science class in their life start playing scientist... [/quote]
Albert Einstein dropped out of highschool, just sayin.

[DGFone]

[quote="Woeler"]
Albert Einstein dropped out of highschool, just sayin.[/quote]

Only one of the most clueless and wrong statements to come out of your mouth. Look it up, siriusly.

[Woeler]

[quote]In late summer 1895, at the age of sixteen, Einstein sat the entrance examinations for the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (later the Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule). He failed to reach the required standard in several subjects.[/quote]
[quote]Albert Einstein went to school at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich, Germany, where one of his teachers told him that he would never amount to anything. He dropped out of that school when he was 16.[/quote]

The one article (from ABC science) that claims this was not the case has a very poor understanding of the German educational system. It is wrong. Furthermore his biography (Einstein: His Life and Universe) confirms that he, in fact, failed high school when he was 16 years old.

Now, before you start redefining words like ''high school'', just don't. He dropped out, fact.

Spoiler: show

Oh, and thanks for attacking me personally, again. I almost started to miss it.

[DGFone]

I have no idea where you got your sources, but then how about this simple dummy test:

How can someone who failed school get into a university, and then, to top it off, get a nobel prize in Physics (and not for his theory of relativity)? If anything, all it meant was that the school system was broken.

Also, everywhere I look up, I come across two things about his education:
A: He excelled in school
B: He had a speech problem. (This is proven to be false, BTW)

Sure, I've heard that "Einstein failed school", how come I never saw it in print? And then again, right back to the dummy question: How did he get into a university if he failed school?

Correction: At most, I see that he "failed some examinations". This is not the same as failing school, and in the end, for a physicist, is philosophy so important?

[Woeler]

[quote="DGFone"] How did he get into a university if he failed school?[/quote]
On the advice of the Principal of the Polytechnic, he attended the Aargau Cantonal School in Aarau, Switzerland, in 1895–96 to complete his secondary schooling. While lodging with the family of Professor Jost Winteler, he fell in love with Winteler's daughter, Marie. (Albert's sister Maja later married Wintelers' son Paul.)[23] In January 1896, with his father's approval, he renounced his citizenship in the German Kingdom of Württemberg to avoid military service.[24] (He acquired Swiss citizenship five years later, in February 1901.)[25] In September 1896, he passed the Swiss Matura with mostly good grades (including a top grade of 6 in physics and mathematical subjects, on a scale of 1-6)
[quote="DGFone"]Correction: At most, I see that he "failed some examinations". This is not the same as failing school, and in the end, for a physicist, is philosophy so important?[/quote]
No, again, he dropped out of high school. Check his biography, check wikipedia and even People's HowStuffWorks knows.

Second, that's not the point. He dropped out.

[Azdgari]

How about we agree that you don't necessarily have to have a degree to do intelligent things and talk about Sirius? :3

[Regulus]

[quote="Azdgari"]How about we agree that you don't necessarily have to have a degree to do intelligent things and talk about Sirius? :3[/quote]

[quote="DGFone"]When people who never took a science class in their life start playing scientist... [/quote]

Based on this, I don't think we can agree on that.