Article in the DT this morning.

30 per cent of adults in Britain believe that time travel is real.

Half of adults believe memory erasing techniques similar to that used in films such as Men in Black and hover boards as seen in Back to the Future, exist in reality.

A quarter believe that teleportation was a real mode of transport, while 22 per cent think light sabres exist in real life.

Methinks some people watch far too much television!

I wonder if carrying a light sabre in public will now be officially banned.:rolleyes:

I wouldn't be surprised f the survey was done on Torygraph readers. The'd believe anything.

Jedi Knight Banned from taking Light Sabre into School (http://randomperspective.com/?1news-3-072)

As I keep saying, we are devolving,it's back to the trees for us,or should I say for them.:rolleyes:

Time to bring back some basics!

What about making kids do their tables again...approaching 40, my mental arithmetic is still pretty sharp, largely due to the simple calculations etched in my mind...

Then we could teach them how to actually construct a proper sentence. Verbs, nouns, adverbs etc. It never ceases to amaze me how poor the level of grammar is today (including in the media).

Sadly today's education is more about the lowest common denominator, and all in the name of 'equality'...lets dumb down the brightest kids, in case the less capable feel hard done by. But it's ok...at least they have the vision to believe that time travel is with us, and that every good Jedi needs an Acme FX2011 Super Turbo Lightsabre!

PS. Throw in some National Service for all those kids who have never had a proper family unit, to help them develop a sense of self-respect, and respect for others. Teach them something about teamwork and community. I like Cameron's idea of training ex-servicemen as teachers. Put some respect and discipline back in the classroom.

Well, to me 30 years ago seems just like yesterday. I guess it must be true. :(

I've already told you all of this tomorrow.

30 per cent of adults in Britain believe that time travel is real.

Half of adults believe memory erasing techniques similar to that used in films such as Men in Black and hover boards as seen in Back to the Future, exist in reality.

A quarter believe that teleportation was a real mode of transport, while 22 per cent think light sabres exist in real life.


meanwhile, people still vote labour :hmm:

30 per cent of adults in Britain believe that time travel is real.

You also post this again next year, and the year after. I don't reply because of the asteroid shower in 2013.

30 per cent of adults in Britain believe that time travel is realThere was a young man called Bright,
Who could travel faster than light,
He departed one day,
In a relative way,
And came back the previous night.

:oh:

30 per cent of adults in Britain believe that time travel is real.


Can we go back and interrupt their parents?

Lets look at these.....

30 per cent of adults in Britain believe that time travel is real.

Well it is but not in the sense that we can control it. It also doesn't operate as a constant speed, as you find out once you are past 60 years of age...

Half of adults believe memory erasing techniques similar to that used in films such as Men in Black and hover boards as seen in Back to the Future, exist in reality.

Qualify "similar" ! Not with a little flashy device, but I can assure you there are memory erasing techniques - used to control mental illness until very recently. Hoverboards, no.

A quarter believe that teleportation was a real mode of transport, while 22 per cent think light sabres exist in real life.

Teleportation has been demonstrated over a hundred kilometres, but only in teleporting photons, which has little practical use for most of us. Look up ESA, photons, entanglement, quantum physics, etc. Some quite worrying results if you believed Einstein. Light sabres, no.

Today's ludicruous fantasy is tomorrow's taken-for-granted fact.

thier gums bleed evey 28 days:ugh:

11fan

Brilliant:ok:

Bill Bryson -

"I had recently read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another,so it was clear that my people needed me."

Let's face it, if you were stopped in the street and asked questions like that would you give an entirely truthful answer?

Probably the only people with a loose grasp of reality are those who set themselves up for a wind-up by instigating such a poll.

dakkg651

30 per cent of adults in Britain believe that time travel is real.

Why?


NWSRG

Time to bring back some basics!

What about making kids do their tables again...approaching 40, my mental arithmetic is still pretty sharp, largely due to the simple calculations etched in my mind...

Agreed, I think calculators are used way too much in school. When I first started attending school they weren't allowed at all as it should be.

Then we could teach them how to actually construct a proper sentence. Verbs, nouns, adverbs etc. It never ceases to amaze me how poor the level of grammar is today (including in the media).

True, even my grammatical skills aren't that good and I seem extremely well spoken compared to some people.

Sadly today's education is more about the lowest common denominator, and all in the name of 'equality'...lets dumb down the brightest kids, in case the less capable feel hard done by.

I've never got that impression. In the United States, it's always been my impression that we've gotten dumber due to things like "No Child Left Behind". Sure, the standardized tests have become more frequent and harder, but the curriculum has become increasingly more rigid leaving the teachers with no room to actually teach people what they need to know. Rather than teaching people what they need to know, then creating tests to verify they possess the requisite knowledge; instead they're creating the tests and then telling the teachers they need to teach the students how to pass the test: It's an ass-backwards method of teaching, and all we've ended up doing is breed a generation of students who have become experts at memorizing data for a test, then deftly dumping all of that knowledge once they've passed. In addition to the new tests behind harder, they also often test for all the wrong things. Critical thinking skills seem to continually decrease every single year. You would think changes would be made, but the only changes are to make the tests harder and harder, continually testing for the wrong things, and making the curriculum more and more rigid. Predictably, it gets worse and worse. Sometimes, part of me wonders if "No Child Left Behind" was created to dumb down kids under the guise of making them smarter. The fact is, virtually no government wants it's people to be too smart and/or too capable of critical thinking.

Recently, there was a movie released in the United States called "Waiting for Superman". It makes me really nervous, as it sounds like another "No Child Left Behind" all over again. Harder and harder tests, and dumber and dumber kids.

PS. Throw in some National Service for all those kids who have never had a proper family unit, to help them develop a sense of self-respect, and respect for others.

There have been times where the idea of universal national service has seemed to be a good idea. The only worry of mine is that it would effectively amount to compulsory military service (that isn't the only national service a person can do) and compulsory military service while it probably would help blunt the overly entitled attitude some teenagers have, it verges on slavery (if it's compulsory). Effectively you'd be forcing people to risk their lives, and potentially die brutal deaths under the barrel of a gun for a potentially bogus (or even morally bankrupt) cause (The Vietnam War, The Second Iraq War, were all based on lies and deception). To make things even worse, there have been some rather unsavory ideas floating around during the past 8 years in the United States at least -- DARPA had openly talked about fitting soldiers with computer chips which would be directly implanted into their brains (It sounds like science fiction, but this actually has been done before (http://www.wireheading.com/delgado/brainchips.pdf)). The claim for doing this was to allow soldiers to control military equipment with their thoughts, but considering DARPA's less than shiny reputation with ethics, this could easily be developed into a tool to allow soldiers to be controlled like little robots. I should also remind everybody that soldiers do not have the right to say no.

As an interesting piece of trivia, there was actually a man named Jose Delgado (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Manuel_Rodriguez_Delgado) who actually did quite a bit of research on this, even on human subjects. This man actually said on the floor of Congress:

"Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain."

:eek::eek::eek:

Personally, I think that is one of the most repulsive, evil things I've ever heard. What do you think?


OFSO

Well it is but not in the sense that we can control it. It also doesn't operate as a constant speed

Are you talking about relativity?

Qualify "similar" ! Not with a little flashy device, but I can assure you there are memory erasing techniques - used to control mental illness until very recently.

Yep, ECT.

Teleportation has been demonstrated over a hundred kilometres, but only in teleporting photons, which has little practical use for most of us. Look up ESA, photons, entanglement, quantum physics, etc.

I don't know if that is exactly considered teleporting. That seems more like scattering one photon beam and creating an exact copy on the other end.

"Agreed, I think calculators are used way too much in school ..."

I totally agree and, by the way, I have a nice abacus for sale if you are interested.

Agreed, I think calculators are used way too much in school. When I first started attending school they weren't allowed at all as it should be.

When I first started attending school ... the bloody things hadn't even been invented !

Remember visiting World Expo. in Osaka in 1970, saw an electronic calculator, was about the size of a Remington Portable Typewriter and had winking, blinking cathode ray tubes, only had four functions, add, subtract,multiply and divide - and cost the equivalent of 1,000 pounds.

Less than 10 years later - I had one on my wrist, plus it told me the time !

It's called Future Shock.

There was a young man called Bright,
Who could travel faster than light,
He departed one day,
In a relative way,
And came back the previous night.

*** There was a young girl called Bright,
Who could travel much faster than light,
She went out one day,
In an Einsteinian way,
And resturned the previous night.

The original :)

If the young man named Bright and the young girl named Bright had met up, do you think they would have come before they went?

There was a young man from Kent
Whose */* was remarkably bent
To save himself trouble
He put it in double
And instead of him coming, he went.