what amazes me...
is your assumption that posting a slightly entertaining idea in the "conspiracy theory nutters" question of the week on b3ta, is some how meant (or actually is!) a challenge to science and good thinking?

Can I put forth the idea that - this is all just meant as a bit of fun? For adults (or hey even kids =)) to read and talk about and laugh a bit? Or will I get held responsible for ignorant 12 year olds crashing planes ... as some sort of direct result.

Actually ... perhaps I'm guiltly of this in reverse, am I missing the joke where you paranoidly blame humour and idle questions as a conspiracy to destroy us all? with 12 year olds?

Cause that's right funny really =)

Me suddenly being responsible for the fact that people aren't scientifically trained is a quite entertaining thought... I swear I didn't think I had anything to do with it =) If I did - I'm such a evil mastermind (without even realizing it) that I should be using my powers more actively... the things I could accomplish!

I may post a thought about magnetic tubes kept in orbit and used as space elevators next ... that'll undoubtedly drive 7 year olds to perform surgery while high! If I toss out the idea that green is red and red is green the economy could collapse retroactively in the past (oh wait someone did that... oh well =))

THE POWER... I can feel it coursing through me ...

Seriously mate, sorry to poke fun - but it sounds like (maybe) you had a bad day and took it out my way - which is cool, we all do it, a bad day is a bad day and it's gonna come out somewhere... but maybe we could just all just go get a pint instead?
( Allisade would love to hear from you, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 15:24, 1 reply)

because it is?
I think you've kind of missed a bit the point about why this shit annoys me.

yes, of course, it's just b3ta. It's just QOTW. Yes, maybe I am overreacting. OMG, SERIS BZNESS, INTERNET.

But it is serious. People take wikipedia as gospel, believe what they read, here, in the press, all over the place. The information revolution has allowed any fool with a keyboard dobber the ability to spread whatever they like throughout the world, and minds are like sponges.

So, yeah, of course you aren't individually responsible for stupid ideas spreading. But at no point did I say you were, in any of the posts. Only that you might be a fucking idiot, which in hindsight is harsh, and I apologise. But society in general must take a responsibility, and it will come back to haunt us, I am certain of that.

And, yeah, mines a pint of Stella, cheers. :)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 15:43, closed)

Fair enough =)
=)
( Allisade would love to hear from you, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 18:45, closed)