/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3900188
Yup.

I should qualify that.

I'm not a nuclear engineer. I'm a biochemist by undergrad training and a lawyer by current training. This thorium business is largely beyond me, and I understand that.

Meeting a true expert with actual experience, I'm convinced. This element is the future of energy until we can figure out fusion or space-based solar.

By the way, it's tremendous fun drinking with the old timers. A few of the newer guys are good fun. I have a law professor that does space law with whom I drink and I had evolutionary biology and immunology professors with whom I drank during undergrad. Seriously, I don't know why scientists aren't more well-known as awesome people.

Another Oak Ridge old-timer from our group is a master cave diver and licensed pilot. He's also an Argentine Tango instructor and regularly dates women less than half his age. Extremely impressive human being.

People often underestimate scientists, but you realize something when you meet enough of us:
We're some of the most competent, fulfilled, multi-faceted, and downright interesting people on the planet.

This aspie bullshit is merely a /sci/ meme. The true "mold" of the scientist is far more in-line with the 1950's type of the bold, daring, brave, and desirable omni-competent man.

We LAUGH at sub-Saharan Africans when they claim to cure HIV with bananas and green paste (look up the Gabon's president... he said it), but we're really no better. Claiming that homeopathic medicines you "apply directly to the forehead" will treat headaches, blaming vaccination for autism, and fad dieting with acai berries. Oprah is a 21st century tribal matron for middle-class Americans. She even has her own witchdoctors for everything from weight loss to psychology to dealing with menopause. I wonder what the fundamental problem with humanity is that causes us to readily accept anecdotal evidence and cure-alls in favor of proven methods and tested solutions. When did we lose our incredulity? Were we ever really incredulous? Are we, as a species, just doomed to wallow in our own stupidity until it causes our inevitable extinction?

Fuck this shit, I'm going to space.... which I hope might happen, actually. They'll need lawyers in space, right?