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Well, I heard this compelling argument that the world is flat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wppjYDj9JUc

Obviously, it's because it isn't in the Quran.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels...

"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."

it says nothing about it being a hat

Tolthar Lockbar wrote:Well, I heard this compelling argument that the world is flat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wppjYDj9JUc

Obviously, it's because it isn't in the Quran.

By his rational, all those cars behind on the screen are only 20cm high.

Wait.... cars aren't in the Quran. They must not exist!

Ok, YouTube has finally traumatized me. O.o

I watched the Earth is flat vid, and then curiosity got the better of me so I clicked on The Earth is 5000 years old.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L72h2R4F ... re=related.

At least with the muslim the language barrier makes the whole affair somewhat abstract. The second was just painful. Ow, the little part of my brain dedicated to science hurts.

That's it I'm off the YouTube.

Riprion wrote:Ok, YouTube has finally traumatized me. O.o

I watched the Earth is flat vid, and then curiosity got the better of me so I clicked on The Earth is 5000 years old.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L72h2R4F ... re=related.

At least with the muslim the language barrier makes the whole affair somewhat abstract. The second was just painful. Ow, the little part of my brain dedicated to science hurts.

That's it I'm off the YouTube.

YouTube has a lot of rational and Objectivist videos as well. MrCropper in particular puts out some great ones, as well as our very own Horvay.

yeah i know petyr. I guess I was being a little hyperbolic.

I wonder if he killed the cameramen after the interview for stealing his soul.