Science for mad people

[tigerfort]

Erich von Daniken is still spouting hilarious nonsense, and respectable scientists occasionally go to his lectures, in order to make fun of them post analyses of the assorted major flaws in his theories. As one of the commenters observes, I had rather assumed that the man was long dead, but....

On a lighter note, let me show you these analyses of the usefulness of chocolate teapots and tinfoil hats.

Comments

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, one comes to the interesting conclusion that it might be useful to put a tinfoil hat over one's mobile phone if the reception is poor...

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

You'd need to design it carefully to ensure that it was amplifying the right frequencies, but probably yes.

Or you could just plug in a 50 foot whip aerial, of course :)