Starman
Y'know those 'pooter generated animated clips on sciencey-astronomy type programs? We're talking amazing close up images of planets, stars an' shit, taken by some imaginary craft that must be travelling at unimaginable speed and with a breathtaking lack of vibration to take crisp pictures of these heavenly bodies as they do their thing in the vastness of space. Their movements and rotations are also sped up to such a degree to maintain a level of interest in the dumbed-down masses that watch the program in question.

It was a particularly dull Horizon I believe, around five years ago and a colleague (a PhD no less) remarked during a packed tea break how the 'footage of all the planets and stars was amazing and must have required some amazing technology to gather all those pictures in space'.

This was a guy that also attempted to mark down an opposite team during a company quiz night for having 'Arkansas' as their answer. This was indeed the correct answer but when the quizmaster read out 'ArkanSAW' he unbelievably shouted out 'This lot have only got ArkanSAS here'. Priceless.
(mersault, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 13:18, 7 replies)

I know this is recent...
and I'm sure what you saw was CGI but it's great what they can do these days.
vimeo.com/11386048
(WOGAN'S WIG FIXER, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 13:53, closed)

I don't think I have ever
seen a computer generated, high detail, close-up fly-by of a shit doing its thing at unimaginable speed.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 14:08, closed)

My wife
is like that.

Closeup of some planet 28,000 light years away: "How long does it take the spaceship to get to those places?

Looking through my telescope: "those aren't stars. They're not star shaped.

Best one, when showing her Google earth for the first time, "Go in the garden and wave your arms, see if I can see you".

She has 2 degrees and an MBA, so fuck knows where she gets it from.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 14:41, closed)

Academic = intelligence : FALSE

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 8 Mar 2011, 16:12, closed)

agree
People think that cleverness and intelligence are interchangeable. Not so.
(mersault, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:34, closed)

it's people without degrees
who generally say this
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 9 Mar 2011, 12:45, closed)

Generally, but not always, clearly.

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Wed 9 Mar 2011, 14:18, closed)