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Science survey
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:23 am
by MKG
In a recent survey for Birmingham Science Project (3000 people took part) ...
44% thought memory-erasing a la Men in Black was real.
30% thought time travel exists.
24% thought teleportation happens.
22% thought light sabres a la Star Wars existed.
18% thought they could see gravity.
WE'RE DOOMED!!!!!!!
Mike
Re: Science survey
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:59 am
by oldjerry
Which of the universities did they do the survey at?
Re: Science survey
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:14 am
by MKG
Doesn't say, OJ. Just that it was a survey commissioned by Birmingham Science City as part of National Science and Technology Week. I don't think it's one to take too seriously - but I'd bet the results aren't too far from reality.
Mike
Re: Science survey
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:54 pm
by Millymollymandy
hee hee good results!
Re: Science survey
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:20 pm
by Green Aura
Re: Science survey
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:30 pm
by Odsox
MKG wrote:44% thought memory-erasing a la Men in Black was real.
30% thought time travel exists.
24% thought teleportation happens.
22% thought light sabres a la Star Wars existed.
18% thought they could see gravity.
Are you implying none of those things are true, surely not ... I time travel nearly every day, forwards from 9 am to 5 pm in a matter of minutes. Can't seem to do it on wet days though, must be a scientific explanation for that temporal anomaly.
Re: Science survey
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:07 pm
by Big Al
MKG wrote:In a recent survey for Birmingham Science Project (3000 people took part) ...
44% thought memory-erasing a la Men in Black was real.
30% thought time travel exists.
24% thought teleportation happens.
22% thought light sabres a la Star Wars existed.
18% thought they could see gravity.
WE'RE DOOMED!!!!!!!
Mike
Typical brummies... everyone knows light sabres were around before star wars....
Re: Science survey
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:50 pm
by dave45
memory erasing is certainly possible - but needs an alcohol catalyst
time travel IS possible, but only forwards at 1 second per second
teleportation clearly happens - or why do I have so many odd socks?
Re: Science survey
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:00 pm
by MuddyWitch
...& as for seeing gravity; isn't that what Brummies put on their chips & go 'Ahhh Bisto'?
MW
Re: Science survey
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:18 am
by frozenthunderbolt
To be fair teleportation does exist - but currently only at the level of subattomic particles - search New Scientist
Re: Science survey
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:06 am
by becks77
Ha ha physics, gotta love it!
Re: Science survey
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:02 am
by Susie
Re: Science survey
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:03 am
by gregorach
Approximately 27% of people will give silly answers to surveys for a laugh.
Re: Science survey
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:27 pm
by MKG
True indeed, Dunc - and you can do just about anything with a good percentage. It was only a few weeks ago that I read a group of US senators were astounded when they learned that 50% of the US population had below-average intelligence.
Mike
Re: Science survey
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:44 pm
by niknik