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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

6 Responses to “Science: It Works, Bitches!”

1. wisemrmagoo Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 12:41 am

   I’m pretty sure that’s from xkcd.

   http://xkcd.com/54/

2. larry Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 12:49 am

   There’s a T-shirt for sale at http://store.xkcd.com/ with it.

   The graph is of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which measurements of matched predictions and also helps confirm the Big Bang theory. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_radiation

3. mrhe25 Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 1:15 am

   Barry,

   It’s an xkcd comic.

4. Jojo Says:
   November 4th, 2009 at 4:48 am

   Love XKCD!

   Somebody pointed to this XKCD comic the other day about the Discovery channel:
   http://xkcd.com/442/

   And somehow, I found a link to someone who had animated and vocalized that comic. Pretty cool!
   http://vimeo.com/7151435

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