tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post4691905160483603652..comments2023-10-10T05:07:13.577-07:00Comments on En Tequila Es Verdad: To All of You Bashing The Dancing Wu Li MastersDana Hunterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00890312745525306991noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-6883011486638494072008-11-26T12:14:00.000-08:002008-11-26T12:14:00.000-08:00No worries. I think we're all hoping for the same ...No worries. I think we're all hoping for the same thing: for people to understand and be intrigued by the scientific method.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16903707626911379493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-56045914919195844902008-11-25T13:44:00.000-08:002008-11-25T13:44:00.000-08:00(I have a cold. I'm cranky. I probably shouldn't...(I have a cold. I'm cranky. I probably shouldn't even be on the Internet right now.)Blake Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13977394981287067289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-48643521347201020102008-11-25T13:43:00.000-08:002008-11-25T13:43:00.000-08:00Science is a cold, hard public approach to knowled...<I>Science is a cold, hard public approach to knowledge, sometimes you need to add more human elements to make it a good story.</I><BR/><BR/>I don't buy it. Science is an activity undertaken by human beings. If the path to a particular discovery weren't interesting to the people working on it, they never would have gotten there. I've yet to find a case where troweling on passions which weren't in the original history made that history better. If the beauty of knowledge needs an airbrush, you're doing it wrong.<BR/><BR/><I>That's what science fiction is anyway, innit?</I><BR/><BR/>Science fiction is labelled and sold as fiction. It asks "What if?" but does not directly say what <I>is.</I> I'm 130,000 words into an SF novel, and I've tried to portray the process of science as realistically as I can, but I haven't footnoted the pages with annotations saying which "facts" come from our world and which belong to the world I made up. That, I leave to the reader to discover.Blake Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13977394981287067289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-80356526407839710552008-11-25T12:48:00.000-08:002008-11-25T12:48:00.000-08:00I feel .. so bad.Actually, I don't take football s...I feel .. so bad.<BR/><BR/>Actually, I don't <A HREF="http://cujo359.blogspot.com/2008/01/football-isnt-quite-over-yet.html" REL="nofollow">take football seriously</A>, either, but I still watch it. Sometimes.<BR/><BR/>You don't need to take something seriously to enjoy it.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-43362811885584515782008-11-25T11:52:00.000-08:002008-11-25T11:52:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-66736984857875272052008-11-25T09:58:00.000-08:002008-11-25T09:58:00.000-08:00I've never read it, but I trust you enough to beli...I've never read it, but I trust you enough to believe it's not some Deepak Chopra true bastardization of science. Science is a cold, hard public approach to knowledge, sometimes you need to add more human elements to make it a good story. That's what science fiction is anyway, innit?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16903707626911379493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851578517872251953.post-41755066251552020182008-11-25T09:33:00.000-08:002008-11-25T09:33:00.000-08:00Hey, I calls 'em as I sees 'em.And what's this abo...Hey, I calls 'em as I sees 'em.<BR/><BR/>And what's this about a "gateway drug"? Bollocks. I say, if the hard drugs are worth taking, they're worth taking <I>right away.</I> None of this pussyfooting around.Blake Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13977394981287067289noreply@blogger.com