More "amazing" technology

**Mike Hoy** · 28-02-2009, 01:05 AM

I sometimes wonder how people make this stuff up.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/20...n_her.php#more

**Bas Asselbergs** · 28-02-2009, 02:46 AM

Mike - that was fun and sad at the same time!

One blogger made very appropriate remark: something like "you can't really spoof or satire it (sic) - Good satire requires going "over the top" more than the thing being satired; in this case, there isn't enough headroom."

28-02-2009, 01:05 AM	#1
Mike Hoy SomaSimpler Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 88 Thanks: 38 Thanked 13 Times in 6 Posts	More "amazing" technology I sometimes wonder how people make this stuff up. http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/20...n_her.php#more __________________ Mike Hoy, PT, DPT, OCS "When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn't involve a magic spell." - Emo Philips

28-02-2009, 02:46 AM	#2
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,695 Thanks: 841 Thanked 484 Times in 233 Posts	Mike - that was fun and sad at the same time! One blogger made very appropriate remark: something like "you can't really spoof or satire it (sic) - Good satire requires going "over the top" more than the thing being satired; in this case, there isn't enough headroom." __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

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