Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

[JRM]

I took the 1961 NYState Physics Regents how much of that science is valid today?

If it was Newtonian mechanics and/or E&M, pretty much all of it.

All of my post schooling moles have been in the Talpidae family or on the Cindy Crawford family, nary a one came packed in the handy 6.022x23^10 carry home size..

10^23...

[Marlow]

Some one did not know the meaning of temporal.

Then he was just not paying attention when watching his Star Trek episodes. There was ALWAYS a temporal anomaly that the Enterprise got sucked into, resulting in all sorts of nasty space-time loops that they had to get themselves out of !

[dal4018]

Hollywood taking liberties with the facts is certainly not limited to cartoons. :wink:

You got that right halfmiler Hollywood has been doing that for years

[wineturtle]

All of my post schooling moles have been in the Talpidae family

So you missed out on the golden moles from Africa?

Daisy -7777 8-)

[Daisy]

All of my post schooling moles have been in the Talpidae family

So you missed out on the golden moles from Africa?

[wineturtle]

Or may be their knowledge is very transient?

The data-dump method of learning is prevalent. 'Learn' something, take a test on it, forget it. That's why I don't give Vocab tests any more. They all get 100 on the test and then have no freakin' idea on how to use the word! Better to make them read MORE, look up words they don't know, and make them use the word in context! :evil:

I took the 1961 NYState Physics Regents how much of that science is valid today?

All of my post schooling moles have been in the Talpidae family or on the Cindy Crawford family, nary a one came packed in the handy 6.022x23^10 carry home size..

[Daisy]

Or may be their knowledge is very transient?

They all get 100 on the test and then have no freakin' idea on how to use the word!

Interesting, i experienced this today. Some one did not know the meaning of temporal.

[Marlow]

Or may be their knowledge is very transient?

The data-dump method of learning is prevalent. 'Learn' something, take a test on it, forget it. That's why I don't give Vocab tests any more. They all get 100 on the test and then have no freakin' idea on how to use the word! Better to make them read MORE, look up words they don't know, and make them use the word in context! :evil:

[robert5744]

They don't know that dinosaurs and lemurs never co-existed.

:shock: Pego, sometimes you come out with some ridiculous comments. You can't know if they co-existed or not. Or were you there?

:shock: :shock: You mean to tell me that Peter Pan and Snow White and the 7 dwarfs weren't real.............................I think I'm going to.....................(fill in the blank) 8-)

[Daisy]

They don't know that dinosaurs and lemurs never co-existed.

:shock: Pego, sometimes you come out with some ridiculous comments. You can't know if they co-existed or not. Or were you there?

Some around here may take your sarcasm as your actual position :evil: .

Are you saying that you think that I think we can prove a negative? You may think that geological time is real but quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity suggest that anything is possible if you look hard enough at selected evidence. At least, that's what many non-scientists keep telling me.

BTW, to complete my previous posts, this sort of movies just contribute to the dreadful state of scientific literacy among our population.

Science literacy could be a thing of the past.

I have students who have taken chemistry in high school, and chemistry at university. They have calculus under their belt too. Yet, ask them to prepare a 1M solution or a dilution of that stock solution and they are stumped!!? In summary, there seems to be a disconnect between knowledge and application. Or may be their knowledge is very transient?

[wineturtle]

BTW, to complete my previous posts, this sort of movies just contribute to the dreadful state of scientific literacy among our population.

Exactly. Why confuse the issue -- everyone knows that dinosaurs and ice ages are make-believe. How could they have happened in the 4000 years since the Earth was created?

Yeah, everyone knows it has been 6000 years. :wink:

Only 4000 to go
:roll: I submit as proof----->
Now it's been 10,000 years, Man has cried a billion tears, For what, he never knew. Now man's reign is through. But through eternal night, The twinkling of starlight. So very far away, Maybe it's only yesterday ...

[lonewolf]

BTW, to complete my previous posts, this sort of movies just contribute to the dreadful state of scientific literacy among our population.

Exactly. Why confuse the issue -- everyone knows that dinosaurs and ice ages are make-believe. How could they have happened in the 4000 years since the Earth was created?

Yeah, everyone knows it has been 6000 years. :wink:

[JRM]

BTW, to complete my previous posts, this sort of movies just contribute to the dreadful state of scientific literacy among our population.

Exactly. Why confuse the issue -- everyone knows that dinosaurs and ice ages are make-believe. How could they have happened in the 4000 years since the Earth was created?

[lonewolf]

I did not concern myself with the chronological inaccuracy. We plowed that field on this forum a couple of weeks ago.
My granson is well versed in the history of dinosaurs and identified tyranasaurus, stegosaurus and brontosaurus as they appeared. He was especially critical of the inaccurate depiction of the raptors and dismissed "Rudy" as fictional.
He was also critical of descending from a frozen planet into a subterranean tropical environment and surfing on a river of molten lava. Maybe he has spent too much time with grandpa.

Marlow's comment about the nearly empty theatre prompts a wonder about the economics of the movie industry. This movie is showing every hour, or so, between 1100 and 2200 hours on one or more screens in a 24 screen multiplex. We attended a 1530 showing on Wednesday afternoon. Admittedely not prime movie time for the general public but I counted a "crowd" of twelve people, exacly half children. in a 400 seat theatre, suggesting ticket revenue of $180 -$200. I think I read this movie grossed $43 mill the first week. Apparently/obviously attendance is better other times and places.

[Marlow]

I'm sure there are some laws in the pipeline to mandate truthiness in cartoons. It's a must.
Has anyone seen my talking duck?

Another case in point is Oliver Stone's movies that reinvent history. LOTS of people come out of his movies thinking that what they saw is the 'truth', when, in actuality, Stone was just making crap up as he went along, putting it in the context of real events.