NSG Sceptics Society (OOC)

[Greater American Union]

I'm skeptical at the possibility of sleeping before 4AM.

I can totally relate to that!

As can I.

[Wilgrove]

So is this a society about septic tanks?

[Greater American Union]

So is this a society about septic tanks?

That's what I thought. But, I was wrong apparently.

Did anyone else see the thread title and think, NSG Septic Society?

[Xsyne]

I'm skeptical about my own existence.

[Wikkiwallana]

.........
In Manhattan, New York? I'm pretty skeptical of that. New Yorkers are considered rude by most other people because by and large, we don't talk to anyone and wish them a good day the way they do in many other parts of the country. And asking a mixed race person if they'd been to a lynching?

I'm also skeptical that you've never heard of Mexicans (upper case M, it's a proper name) being treated as if they're all potentially illegal aliens, or the depiction that most Italians (again, proper name, upper case I) are in the Mafia.

im a southerner. once anyone from elsewhere in the country finds that out, they immediately assume that life in the south is exactly like

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/

.

please note that i did not say that racism did not exist. im saying that it isn't the CNN society devastating-like phenomena that we all think of when we hear the term. we only think of it like that b/c we've all been indoctrinated to view it in such a manner. it's my fault for not being clear enough. racism exists. im skeptical of its effect on individuals. im skeptical of it systemic effects. i don't believe that anyone's life is ruined b/c of it.

I'm Southern too. One of my friends in college once told me and some other people how he was going to have to leave because his car was being vandalized, at least once with a threat IIRC, because he married a white woman.

[Wikkiwallana]

I like having my blood at a pH between 7.35 to 7.45

I prefer my blood pH to be between either 7.35 to 7.39 or 7.43 to 7.45. Just in case.

Pffh, that happened once, and it eats plastic now anyway...

[Gagatron]

I'm skeptical of the idea that the Messiah hasn't come yet. I'm also skeptical that Mohammed wrote the Quran. I am further skeptical about the veracity of carbon dating.

[Science-Oriented Scots]

I am further skeptical about the veracity of carbon dating.

You've got to be freaking kidding me. Are you also skeptical about whether or not electrons exist or all living things are made up of cells?

[Gagatron]

I am further skeptical about the veracity of carbon dating.

You've got to be freaking kidding me. Are you also skeptical about whether or not electrons exist or all living things are made up of cells?

It is logically impossible for carbon to decay at a set rate if it is in contact with the weather of the Earth and other living things.

[Science-Oriented Scots]

You've got to be freaking kidding me. Are you also skeptical about whether or not electrons exist or all living things are made up of cells?

It is logically impossible for carbon to decay at a set rate if it is in contact with the weather of the Earth and other living things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating

Please actually read this and be acquainted with the matter on which you are speaking.

EDIT: Read this for other dating methods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating

[Xsyne]

You've got to be freaking kidding me. Are you also skeptical about whether or not electrons exist or all living things are made up of cells?

It is logically impossible for carbon to decay at a set rate if it is in contact with the weather of the Earth and other living things.

I don't think you understand logic.

[New Manvir]

I am skeptical that you people actually exist you and aren't all part of a secret conspiracy to keep me confined in some sort of fantasy world a la the Truman Show.

[Science-Oriented Scots]

I am skeptical that you people actually exist you and aren't all part of a secret conspiracy to keep me confined in some sort of fantasy world a la the Truman Show.

Shh of course not. Now go back to bed. You have work in the morning.

[Wikkiwallana]

You've got to be freaking kidding me. Are you also skeptical about whether or not electrons exist or all living things are made up of cells?

It is logically impossible for carbon to decay at a set rate if it is in contact with the weather of the Earth and other living things.

Chemical processes have no effect on sub-atomic ones.

[UCUMAY]

I am VERY skeptical of this thread...

No kidding...

[Gagatron]

It is logically impossible for carbon to decay at a set rate if it is in contact with the weather of the Earth and other living things.

Chemical processes have no effect on sub-atomic ones.

Carbon is not subatomic, and yes they do. Ever heard of the effects of fire?

[UCUMAY]

Chemical processes have no effect on sub-atomic ones.

Carbon is not subatomic, and yes they do. Ever heard of the effects of fire?

Fire simply oxidizes.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

God.

[Wikkiwallana]

Chemical processes have no effect on sub-atomic ones.

Carbon is not subatomic, and yes they do. Ever heard of the effects of fire?

Radioactive decay is a subatomic process, fire is a chemical process. Fire does not turn one element into another.

[Gagatron]

Carbon is not subatomic, and yes they do. Ever heard of the effects of fire?

Fire simply oxidizes.

Thus removing some of the carbon, and BOOM carbon dating has a flaw.

[UCUMAY]

Fire simply oxidizes.

Thus removing some of the carbon, and BOOM carbon dating has a flaw.

I can only find said effect on textiles.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_o ... archtype=a

[Wikkiwallana]

Fire simply oxidizes.

Thus removing some of the carbon, and BOOM carbon dating has a flaw.

Fire removes some of the everything, it's not all that picky. And we carbon date fossils, not ashes. Fossils are notoriously non-flammable.

[Xarithis]

Thus removing some of the carbon, and BOOM carbon dating has a flaw.

I'm not sure you understand the process of radioactive decay.

[UCUMAY]

Thus removing some of the carbon, and BOOM carbon dating has a flaw.

I'm not sure you understand the process of radioactive decay.

Gagatron is right... but for fabrics. Not necessarily for other things.

[Gagatron]

Thus removing some of the carbon, and BOOM carbon dating has a flaw.

Fire removes some of the everything, it's not all that picky. And we carbon date fossils, not ashes. Fossils are notoriously non-flammable.

But then again, carbon dating only goes back 50,000 years, so it's completely useless most of the time.