I can recognize quite a few scientists. The list of those whom I'll allow to bite me is somewhat shorter, though not a null set.
On the other hand, 'The Pirates! - In An Adventure With Scientists' sounds like one of those doomed educational Nickelodeon series. Johnny Pirate will drop one cannonball and one coconut of the same size from the top of the rigging, and we'll see which hits the deck first (with comic relief provided by the coconut going through the flimsy deck or the cannonball landing in someone's grog, etc.), making sure to retain a painfully and repetitively pedantic focus. I'm not saying we're all afraid of learning something. But some of us are justifiably afraid of the dreadfully awful attempts at pedantry that the entertainment industry has been known to dish out to children.
(Hmm... a pirate science show that kids would like. It would have to focus on tropical and nutritional diseases, wound care, ballistics, and so forth. But with the right kind of gruesome imagery, it could take off up until the point where someone's parents saw an episode.)
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Date: 2012-05-02 03:29 am (UTC)On the other hand, 'The Pirates! - In An Adventure With Scientists' sounds like one of those doomed educational Nickelodeon series. Johnny Pirate will drop one cannonball and one coconut of the same size from the top of the rigging, and we'll see which hits the deck first (with comic relief provided by the coconut going through the flimsy deck or the cannonball landing in someone's grog, etc.), making sure to retain a painfully and repetitively pedantic focus. I'm not saying we're all afraid of learning something. But some of us are justifiably afraid of the dreadfully awful attempts at pedantry that the entertainment industry has been known to dish out to children.
(Hmm... a pirate science show that kids would like. It would have to focus on tropical and nutritional diseases, wound care, ballistics, and so forth. But with the right kind of gruesome imagery, it could take off up until the point where someone's parents saw an episode.)