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It's great to know that all the tax payers money being ploughed into scientific institutions are being put to good use, and not just keeping lazy, useless, insignificant scientists in jobs.

It sounds like they went to a lot of expense and through their hard work and dedication, they were able to change the world forever!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071004/sc_livescience/thescienceofknotsunraveled

In case you don't recognise it, I was being sarcastic! These useless bums masquerading as highbrow academics and scientists truly piss me off!

I wish someone would pay me to piss around all day.

Here's another amazing discovery! Who'd have thought lizards could be the key to our love problems? I mean who'd have thought that lizards have emotions that are anything like that of humans?!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071005/sc_livescience/lizardlovetrianglesexposed

I can't help thinking that if you want to discover more about human love triangles, wouldn't it be better to study human love triangles instead of lizards?

Getting paid to watch lizards...great job!

I think someone should study the behavior of clueless forum trolls. I could volunteer..

Man... that's nothing. I've heard that some bollocks have put electrodes into mices brains and let them watch "Matrix" again and again and again to chceck their responsibilities in dynamic actions which mice notice...

BTW Preacher, can I be your right hand? No salary!

And to feed the troll:

1) There are lots of rather obvious practical implications of studying knots, plus it offers insight into some areas of mathematics and physics. Knot theory is a fascinating area of study.

2) Studying lizards gives us information on natural selection and the process of evolution. This has practical (not to mention purely scientific) implications as well if you think a bit further, plus it helps to fulfill one empty hole in the big question of "where did we come from".

I would much rather put money in this stuff than guns, state-funded television programs or agricultural subsidies.

and as far as pissing around like that goes, I don't think you got what it takes. Just about all people with academic careers that I know are rather bright people, even if they do study things some random layman doesn't see any point or meaning in.

GJN: sure thing. I think we can start right here on Pouet..

Knot theory can be useful, but the findings reported here (knots happen when the end of the string goes through a loop in the string! To stop them happening, don't let the end of the string move! omgwtfeleven!) are about as revolutionary as this other study.

(I'm betting that it's more due to the journalist dumbing it down to the point of uselessness rather than anything wrong with the study itself, though)

I think the article implied more sensible and useful results from the study and the last part was just the journalist trying to get something out from it for the layman. I might be wrong though..

shane: tie your willy to knot

of fuck off pinkhero you and your holy than you copy-cat attitude

What about every few weeks when scientists discover new cures for cancer and aids! That's right everyone, eating chocolate can prevent cancer and drinking tea will keep aids away.

Fast forward 5 years...why are people still dying of cancer and aids? Because the work of the scientists is bullshit, that's why! They have a theory, tell it to a journalist who reports it as fact and makes the scientists sound like they have useful jobs, but really it never amounts to anything.

btw I'm entitled to my opinion. If all you can add is "fuck off" or something about my willy, then it shows who the real trolls here are!

Ultimat Gas : "btw I'm entitled to my opinion."

LOL ! I think the people that make you mad are more journalists than scientists... :)

Oh, and btw you're absolutely NOT entitled to have you own opinion, dear, if you live in Europe.

you know, you should listen dopplereffekt song "scientist" and "rocket scientist", scientists are important people!

You're entitled to be a retard, that's for certain.

OMFG ULTIMATE GAS U FUCKIN MORON WUT HAPPENS WHEN WE HAVE A UNIVERSE RULED BY TEH STRING THEORY AND WE DONT KNOW TEH KNOT THEORY SO WE CAN SORT SHIT OUT WHEN TEH STRINGS GET TANGLED UP YOU RETARD!!!!!!111111
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forestcre: Well I learned about knots a long time before some scientists started pissing around with electric cables. You don't need millions of $ funding and academics with degrees to understand knots.

Or maybe YOU do. Maybe they can teach you how to come up with a valid point too.

you are a patented idiot. Now go and drink some tea to cure your AIDS.

Ultimate Gas: you forgot to mention those idiots who observed birds and came-up with many theories for mechanical flight.

useless cretins, the lot of 'em!

I would much rather put money in guns than this stuff.

Sauli : I second that ! :)

A. Leonardo Da Vinci was not taking millions of $ of tax payers money to watch birds when he made such discoveries.

B. Learning how to make mechanical flight is practical and worthwhile. Working out the angles, trajectory and speed of knotted cables is not.

The reason the average person doesn't know those details is because no one cares! If we did, we could work that one out for ourselves.

I could do a year long study on the consistency of cabbage when exposed to various ales and beers, or how wasps react to men in hats. I could probably come up with a lot of info, but it's worthless, just like the above example.

and this is why scientific papers should never be part of the common media.

ha, for all Shane knows, we could all be flying around on self-propelled knots in 50 years time...then he'll have to eat that hat of his AND the stinking cabbage!! :P