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[–] 92 points 3 months ago (45 children)

I can’t quite get over the fact that the premise is false

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  • [–] 74 points 3 months ago (41 children)

    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).

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  • [+] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (25 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months 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.

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    [–] 85 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 45 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    >nobody
    You should be slapped as well then.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Bismuth has joined the chat

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Straight lines are it’s Bismuth.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (17 children)

    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.

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    [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    Straight line and sharp corners in almost all crystals.

    Nice eg. in Ireland

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    just because someone calls themself a scientist doesnt mean they are, as evidenced by that post

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    And this is why absolute statements are generally bad arguments. It only takes one example to disprove them.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Wildcats are nature, they have multiple very sharp corners.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Does it still have straight lines under a microscope?

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Does it still have straight lines if you look really closely?

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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I must confess, this sparked a laugh

    This pointiness, it’s nature’s gaff

    Give me a siiiiign

    Fool me baby one more time

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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    well done OP, you really stuck it to those stupid scientists

    /s

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Technically fibers in wood is straight.

    I want to say ice has straight edges

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    We exist within nature, so nature created linear particle accelerators.

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