A miracle is something that can't possibly happen, but does anyway. Since it's quite possible for a plane to make a successful water landing, especially if a problem occurs at low speed and low altitude, no miracle occurred.

Sure, the flight crew did a fantastic job, but the word "miracle" doesn't belong here.

Revenant

The show "Bones" is a big piece of crap.

Mainly it's a piece of crap because the one female character who does CG reconstructions of whatever they happen to be doing is able to create anything needed on demand. We're talking 3d schematics, animations, and who knows what else in just a few seconds.

So basically this woman would have to be a psychic who can anticipate any question being asked by the other investigators and have a ready-made animation or schematic all ready to go.

In reality, one would have to accurately phrase the question, the animator would have to storyboard what they believe to be the proper series of panels, then run them by the questioner (that alone would probably take a couple days). Then, once any remaining questions had been resolved, the animator would start setting up the animation scenes to be used, the props, the models. Which objects are stationary, which ones are movable, which ones are hard bodies, which are soft bodies, which ones are particle emitters, and the properties of the particles, setting up the scale of the models, clothing, hair, etc, etc...

Such things can take months, weeks at the least. The show, in this respect is a complete pile of doo-doo!

Revenant

I always have to laugh when I hear media morons say "That's what the holidays are all about", inevitably talking about giving and all that crap.

What it was originally about was pagan ritual worship of the winter solstice. Nothing to do with giving, decorating trees, buying lots of stuff for other people, and CERTAINLY nothing to do with the birth of imaginary beings.

I have to laugh even more when religious groups get all bent out of shape when non-religious people complain about all the religious crap during the Winter Solstice Celebration.

I also find it funny that religious people feel it's their right to put up religious crap all over the place, especially in public buildings, but are then "outraged" if an atheist display is place alongside it. They're obviously very insecure in their faith in the Big Sky Daddy if a little blurb by an organization of atheists gets them all riled up.

But then, a lot of stuff that stupid people do makes me laugh... and cry.

Revenant

Hello kids, and welcome to Learning to Speak.

To we're going to learn how to pronounce the word realtor. Doesn't look like a difficult word, does it kids. But you'd be surprised how many supposedly intelligent adults simply can't seem to handle it.

First, let's break the word down into it's two syllables, "real" and "tor". As we can easily see, there is only one "a" in the word realtor, yet many people pronounce it real-a-tor. Why would they do this? Are they stupid? Uncle Revenant thinks so, that, or they're apathetic and don't care to communicate properly, which means they're selfish.

So, don't be stupid or selfish, kids. Learn how to pronounce words properly, no matter what supposedly intelligent adults say.

That's all for now kids! Don't be stupid!

Revenant

I occasionally just do Google searches for "god in the news" or some such, just to see what stupidity lies beyond my doorstep.

Found this one today: The Prophesied End-Time Revealed

It's probably been there for a while, since the one page says:

From now until the latter part of 2008, many prophecies are going to begin to be fulfilled, especially the Seven Thunders of the Book of Revelation, which the apostle John saw but was restricted from recording. Those thunders are revealed in this book, as well as detailed accounts of the final three and one-half years of man's self-rule on earth, which are recorded in the account of the Seventh Seal of Revelation.

Ooh, I'm all scared and shit! I can't say these particular people are opportunists, since they're giving the book away. So I can only conclude that they are extremely delusional and should be locked away so as not to harm anyone.

Update 02/27/2009: Still waiting...

Revenant