when i was a kid i had this old hardcover book published by disney that was called OUR FRIEND THE ATOM (expanded from the disney TV episode of the same name which apparently they showed everyone in school) and had as its framing device/central metaphor a handsomely illustrated rendition of The Fisherman And The Genie, the idea being that the genie is powerful but also sickeningly dangerous, and the whole thing was on this (to me in the 1990s) utterly strange knife-edge between brisk cheerful disney-newsreel futurism and primal unnameable fear. it's one of the oddest and most affecting artifacts i've ever seen and i tend to assume it sums up the decade.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:28 (fifteen years ago)
omg the atom is saidin
― So seveir, no more beir (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:29 (fifteen years ago)
("the decade" being 1945-1962 i guess, or -1991, or -now, who even knows)
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:29 (fifteen years ago)
oh here
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:33 (fifteen years ago)
lol @ walt disney saying AND NOW, OUR EXPERT! and guy turning around from writing important equations on a blackboard and being like AZ VEE BEGAN AHR REZEARCH INTO ZEE ATOM
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:37 (fifteen years ago)
lol
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:39 (fifteen years ago)
Aussie 'Topeka' Practically a Dutch 'Tampa' in the Making
― secretariat on demand (Z S), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:43 (fifteen years ago)
great description on that youtube video:
This is the very cartoon many of us in the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's watched in High School Physics classes.
The premise that there is something real called a nuclear atom, with orbiting electrons and a nucleus composed of protons and neutrons, was never tenable since it's inception.
The Nuclear Theory of the Atom has been debunked for a long time now. Dewey Larson has absolutely obliterated the historical construction of this fallacious and mind numbing theory in his Book: "The Case Against the Nuclear Atom" found in the link below, online and free to read. So, there is no excuse for anyone believing this idiotic model, nor quantum mechaincs, since is constructed upon this myth abd string theory because it is just deeper into the same quackademic bullshit. 10 to the 500th versions of this garbage theory about 1 dimensional strings and membranes as big as the Universe. LOL!
http://library.rstheory.org/books/qp/index.html
Walt Disney was a mason and intimately involved in the plan of the owners of the new world order to brainwash humanity with these kinds of disempowering lies which have enslaved us all to energy barons, war mongers and central bankers.
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:45 (fifteen years ago)
The atom will reside here.
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:46 (fifteen years ago)
Tags:
* Disney * Mind * control * garbage * about * the * non * existent * nuclaer * atom
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:46 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffnSTfBN1lU&feature=related
quackademic bullshit
― br8080 (dayo), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:47 (fifteen years ago)
xxxxp wow. all it said before the jump was "this is the very cartoon many of us watched" so i didn't expand it, way to bury the lede youtube user 77GSlinger.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:47 (fifteen years ago)
Disney Sucks for not building this. Guaranteed that 2010 would be that actual 21st Century hover car kind of world.MERC3NARYPRODUCTIONS 9 months ago
Screw you
Go to hell faggot
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:47 (fifteen years ago)
i don't think i'd ever heard "quackademic"
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:50 (fifteen years ago)
yeah its kinda great
― br8080 (dayo), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:50 (fifteen years ago)
you can't believe it wasn't there all along
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:51 (fifteen years ago)
*was, ugh
Disney Sucks for not building this. Guaranteed that 2010 would be that actual 21st Century hover car kind of world.
i had another book of similar vintage about The Year 2000 and mostly i remember this illustration of a guy sitting in the back of a car reading a newspaper while an anthropomorphic robot with a fixed smile sat in the front and drove him to work.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:53 (fifteen years ago)
Visiting Epcot now, you're reminded of a futuristic condo complex circa 1985.
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 02:54 (fifteen years ago)
start of wwe raw, to add to the cena defeats osama lols btw
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:01 (fifteen years ago)
ooops, helps if include the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI7k5r43VkI&feature=BFp&list=WL9E1D2843D5ACC2B3&index=1
has anyone posted this? http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/out-of-osamas-death-a-fake-quotation-is-born/238220/
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:12 (fifteen years ago)
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:13 (fifteen years ago)
*thumbs up*
ok it has since taken the rock 5 minutes to walk down the ramp and then start shouting the pledge of allegiance
wonder if tna are just gonna go with taz making a shitty joke like usual - would be a better show for once than raw
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:16 (fifteen years ago)
and what fake mlk is fake16 minutes ago · Like
― dayo, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:18 (fifteen years ago)
Hahhaa that MLK quote has been all over my FB today. I wonder if I should be a killjoy and post that link.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:22 (fifteen years ago)
MLKtoast
― And thusly create the illusion of babby (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:26 (fifteen years ago)
i already did...i feel like a bastard
― secretariat on demand (Z S), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:27 (fifteen years ago)
ok Pitbull has now come out in an all white suit. It's what Osama would have wanted.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:29 (fifteen years ago)
w/ cheerleaders.
I did, mostly b/c it's fitting with my FB persona.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:32 (fifteen years ago)
One of my other friends beat me to it, and now all the other posters of quote are going "yeah but the sentiment is what matters ok?".
― Trayce, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:42 (fifteen years ago)
I posted the link and the quote, and wondered whether to attribute it to L. Ron Hubbard or someone else equally as ridiculous.
I also added a note relating to Mordy's mention that there's no specific Jewish problem with celebrating death!
― mh, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:46 (fifteen years ago)
I understand killing people sucks, but I don't know if I'm a universal "killing is bad" pacifist now. Sometimes, you gotta bust into a compound in Pakistan and shoot a guy and it's a-ok in my book and a reason to breathe a sigh of something or another.
― mh, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:47 (fifteen years ago)
things done changed
― estkella (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 03:49 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HOVEDy_HGU
― And thusly create the illusion of babby (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 04:07 (fifteen years ago)
Hahhaa that MLK quote has been all over my FB today. I wonder if I should be a killjoy and post that link.I did, mostly b/c it's fitting with my FB persona.― jaymc, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 3:32 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkOne of my other friends beat me to it, and now all the other posters of quote are going "yeah but the sentiment is what matters ok?".― Trayce, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 3:42 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
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― Trayce, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 3:42 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
It's more interesting than that I think. It's obvious that MLK said a lot of things very much like that and that his sentiments chime with the (possibly) made-up quote (which even if it is made up seems to pre-date the death of OBL) but it's curious someone didn't just use a real, easily verifiable quote - I suppose the 140 limit rules most of them out though. Whatever, I'm still with fake MLK.
― these are my everyday balloons (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 08:08 (fifteen years ago)
knew this was cominghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpBPVkpmoeg
― gr8080, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 08:34 (fifteen years ago)
BBC website earlier had the strap "Live: Recorded coverage after Bin Laden's death".
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 08:36 (fifteen years ago)
His whole argument falls apart because if they couldve used a frozen body for political save-a-pres why didnt Bush do so when Obama was clearly going to sweep the floor with him last election?
― Trayce, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 08:37 (fifteen years ago)
Because sometimes "Whooo, danger out there" gets sold?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 08:43 (fifteen years ago)
the "mlk" quote wasn't even that good, fucking hippies
― lloyd banks knew my father (history mayne), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 08:55 (fifteen years ago)
Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice - Proverbs 24:17
― gr8080, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 09:02 (fifteen years ago)
Got into several arguments tonight because I can't get on board with "any man's death diminishes me" - understanding the problematic aspects, I'm happy when some people die. 'Evil' is complicated, but when your existence makes the world a shittier place, I'm not going to not celebrate your death out of any desire for a moral high ground.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 09:04 (fifteen years ago)
That's all very well, but if you want to celebrate, go and stand next to the guy with the foam hand shouting "Whooo, we're number 1"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 09:10 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, jeez, what's up with that guy
― That Dunkster! (absolutely clean glasses), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 09:15 (fifteen years ago)
I was watching the decent news channel earlier and they were showing the Afghan president basically saying "look we're glad he's dead, and please, remember how much Afghanistan resisted the taliban and al-quaeda and give us some respect and peace and help us become a free country in te face of all this". That gave me quite some perspective. We're not the ones having the living shit bombed out of us every single day.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 10:10 (fifteen years ago)
God knows how we actually go about getting out of Afghanistan though, can't see either the US or Britain going "yep, Bin Laden's dead, bye guys!" Whoever said "it'll help us move on" upthread seems hopelessly optimistic (or sarcastic).
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 10:35 (fifteen years ago)