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(The Atlantic) Amusing The 35 most bizarre science fair projects. "Will there be minorities in heaven" and "Is ham tasty" included   (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) divider line 180
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DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 03:53:09 PM  
I giggled.

 
Doctor Funkenstein [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-11-14 03:58:39 PM  
I love these pics. This kid is my favorite. I dig how the "AIDS - The Gay Plague" kid is the only one wearing a medal.

s2.buzzfeed.com

Hot, like man-on-horse sex.

 
Barakku [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:02:18 PM  
I want to see the variables/charts for that minorities in heaven one

 
gilgamesh23 [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:04:12 PM  
Barakku: I want to see the variables/charts for that minorities in heaven one

I wish we could zoom in on the conclusion. It looks like it's one bold word centered on the page. But I can't read it.

 
Doctor Funkenstein [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:06:34 PM  
gilgamesh23: Barakku: I want to see the variables/charts for that minorities in heaven one

I wish we could zoom in on the conclusion. It looks like it's one bold word centered on the page. But I can't read it.


Heh - I actually think it just says "No" but I can't really make it out either.

 
SoothinglyDeranged [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:07:35 PM  
gilgamesh23: Barakku: I want to see the variables/charts for that minorities in heaven one

I wish we could zoom in on the conclusion. It looks like it's one bold word centered on the page. But I can't read it.


"No."

 
Abagadro 2009-11-14 04:09:07 PM  
My favorite parts are the pictures which appear to be James Brown's mugshot and Joseph Smith.

 
gilgamesh23 [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:09:53 PM  
Doctor Funkenstein: Heh - I actually think it just says "No" but I can't really make it out either.

I opened it up and zoomed in on it and all there is is a blob of pixels. Disappointing.

 
Barakku [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:13:28 PM  
Doctor Funkenstein: gilgamesh23: Barakku: I want to see the variables/charts for that minorities in heaven one

I wish we could zoom in on the conclusion. It looks like it's one bold word centered on the page. But I can't read it.

Heh - I actually think it just says "No" but I can't really make it out either.


I figured it (and the hypothesis) are just "No". What would be more interesting are the long lost of variables and real graphs he's apparently made up.

 
Brodan [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:17:00 PM  
That is the most amazing thing I have ever seen on the internet.

 
Enderski [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:17:57 PM  
SHOPPED

 
VictoryCabal [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:18:13 PM  
Some of those have to be shoops? Right?

 
Barakku [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:21:07 PM  
VictoryCabal: Some of those have to be shoops? Right?

The sphincter one looks shoppy, but I can't be sure.

 
ninjakirby [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:22:15 PM  
Doctor Funkenstein: I love these pics. This kid is my favorite. I dig how the "AIDS - The Gay Plague" kid is the only one wearing a medal.



Hot, like man-on-horse sex.


That's from an old SomethingAwful PhotoshopPhriday. A bunch of em are.

 
cksewell [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:22:45 PM  
I suddenly have a craving for Juicy Beans.

 
Brodan [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:28:04 PM  
Lots of PSing in there, but some are real without question.

 
SnakeLee [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:28:35 PM  
Barakku: VictoryCabal: Some of those have to be shoops? Right?

The sphincter one looks shoppy, but I can't be sure.


"Let's Get High," "The Sphincter," and "Filariasis" all look shopped, but there is no way this was:

s2.buzzfeed.com

Also, this kid is the man:

s2.buzzfeed.com

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:32:09 PM  
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of those are shoops.

 
MeinRS6 [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:41:21 PM  
I lol'd
right click/save as

 
SurfaceTension [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 04:43:19 PM  

 
smooshie [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 05:10:10 PM  

 
smooshie [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 05:10:46 PM  
*Most dammit, not ost

/working on "Does Farking reduce your spelling skills?"

 
johnsoninca [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 05:14:16 PM  
Please note the picture of Joseph Smith on the "Minorities" project.

 
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 05:15:06 PM  
smooshie: ost of these are photoshopped from Something Awful (new window)

Looks like all of them.

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 05:25:09 PM  
Is #16 Jonah Goldberg?

Is he still in Middle School?

 
oldebayer [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 05:31:53 PM  
Most of these seem to be from the Pat Robertson Middle School of Intelligently Designed Creationism.

 
Ennuipoet [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 05:37:46 PM  
smooshie: ost of these are photoshopped from Something Awful (new window)

And as usual we did it six months later.^

 
Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 05:40:16 PM  
GAT_00: I'm pretty sure the vast majority of those are shoops.

Yeah, I looked at the Minorities in Heaven one. They forgot to apply a perspective skew on the title so letters towards the right, which is angled away from the viewer, are the exact same size as letters on the left, which are closer. The letters are also perfectly straight up and down, even though the board is angled. They also forgot to turn off anti-aliasing so you get a nice fade in the letters when you zoom way in, and, to top it all off, they used a perfect 36 point font. Amateurs.

//has seen quite a few shoppes in his time.

 
itazurakko [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 05:50:22 PM  
SnakeLee: Also, this kid is the man:

#19? Yeah, he looks like he already stopped by booth #8.

 
wingedkat [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 06:10:04 PM  
Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: GAT_00: I'm pretty sure the vast majority of those are shoops.

Yeah, I looked at the Minorities in Heaven one. They forgot to apply a perspective skew on the title so letters towards the right, which is angled away from the viewer, are the exact same size as letters on the left, which are closer. The letters are also perfectly straight up and down, even though the board is angled. They also forgot to turn off anti-aliasing so you get a nice fade in the letters when you zoom way in, and, to top it all off, they used a perfect 36 point font. Amateurs.

//has seen quite a few shoppes in his time.


hmm, Good reasoning and its obvious you went to quite a bit of effort, but your project is a bit lacking in visual presentation. I give you a B+

 
Thats an 827 2009-11-14 08:41:45 PM  
Ok children pass it back up here. Children pass it to the front of the room, m'kay!

Oh Oh drugs are bad they're bad m'kay!

 
Ivo Shandor 2009-11-14 08:42:54 PM  
I've seen it before, but that "Electricity vs. Cat" one still cracks me up.

 
SomeoneDumb 2009-11-14 08:45:55 PM  
Submitted this with a lamer headline.

 
Nakito 2009-11-14 08:46:38 PM  
gilgamesh23: I opened it up and zoomed in on it and all there is is a blob of pixels. Disappointing.

Well, duh. You need to use a voice-activated computer and you need to keep saying, "zoom; clarify," until you finally get the level of resolution you want. It helps if the computer makes little "deedle-deedle" noises while the zooming and clarifying occurs.

 
Scruffinator 2009-11-14 08:48:04 PM  
Shooped or not, the Aids girl got a laugh out of me.

 
skinink 2009-11-14 08:49:21 PM  
My one Science Fair regret is that I never got the chance to do the obligatory Volcano project. Although I was proud of the one I did on cells, using different Play-Doh colors to make a model. I only won a medal once, as an honorable mention. I'm sure first prize went to a volcano project.

 
ParadisePornoTheater 2009-11-14 08:49:30 PM  
I quit the page at pic #25. I wonder how many of these hopes for the future are homeschooled? If not, they should.

 
lasercannon 2009-11-14 08:50:46 PM  
No and yes.

 
kd1s 2009-11-14 08:53:53 PM  
#7 is highly offensive to me. Just a tad bigoted.

And #13, has a slight infantile bias.

 
fergalicious 2009-11-14 08:54:52 PM  
Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: GAT_00: I'm pretty sure the vast majority of those are shoops.

Yeah, I looked at the Minorities in Heaven one. They forgot to apply a perspective skew on the title so letters towards the right, which is angled away from the viewer, are the exact same size as letters on the left, which are closer. The letters are also perfectly straight up and down, even though the board is angled. They also forgot to turn off anti-aliasing so you get a nice fade in the letters when you zoom way in, and, to top it all off, they used a perfect 36 point font. Amateurs.

//has seen quite a few shoppes in his time.


He also got in two very relevant pictures--Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.

For the record, Mormons don't believe there are minorities in heaven. Everyone will become white.

 
genner 2009-11-14 08:57:41 PM  
PC LOAD LETTER: smooshie: ost of these are photoshopped from Something Awful (new window)

Looks like all of them.


No some of the bad but not insane ones might be real.

This one has a flickr link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duchesslala/2294304574

 
Aardvark Inc. 2009-11-14 08:58:02 PM  
What, no "Are there tasty minorities in heaven?" projects?


\harumph...

 
schief2 [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 09:01:10 PM  
s2.buzzfeed.com

Funny, my research came to the same conclusion.

/I think it's shooped. Pixels, etc.

 
dahmers love zombie [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 09:03:17 PM  
While the vast majority of those are shoops, here's a list of some "ideas" that came from a Christian-based homeschooling website (The Twin Cities Christian Science Association). To be used in the special "Homeschool/Religious School Science Fairs", not the ones which at least attempt to focus on the scientific method:

1. A virus can mutate (alter) the DNA code of the host cell and reproduce a new species. Does this prove evolution by mutation is true or does it show adaptation (variety) within a species?
2. How many shades of skin color are there? Use a paint scanner to test 100 people.
3. Make a computer model of the Flood currents.
4. Statistical occurrence of giants, and midgets and dwarfs and giantism. Use Princess Flo, Goliath, and brothers.
5. What can we learn from the Amish blood disease and sixth finger? Compare this to the half Jewish Samaritans. (Bob Helfinstine may have info on this).
6. Build and run studies on a strata forming wave tank. This would confirm or disprove strata are all laid down at the same time. See http://www.icr.org/newsletters/impact/impactoct00.html and video tape Evidences: The Record & the Flood from Geoscience Research .
7. Does Tanning leather affect C14 content and date?
8. How much voltage or current can a human take before he is killed? (This is a to be a literature search, NOT an experiment.) What sorts of shocks have been known to kill people and how much have people tolerated and lived? What is it about electicity that kills? Would the same thing be true of plants.
9. How much electricity does an eel put out?
10. What was life like before the Flood?
11. Make an experiment to show how Boyle's law applies to nebula.
12. Trilobites prove Noah's flood because they are curled up or not?
13. Do Lilydale closed clam fossils support a world wide flood? Collect 100 shells and compare.
14. Can salt water and fresh water fish live in the same water or not?
15. How long can flies survive freezing in a frig?
16. How can you tell if animals are color blind?
17. Does geography affect health?
18. Is intelligence influenced by physical attributes. i.e. are blondes "dumb" or does skin color influence intelligence?
19. Can a dog run a maze faster than a gerbil?
20. Why do we have allergies?
21. Does a bad mood spread?
22. Could a person function without thumbs? or What would it be like to not have thumbs?
23. Why do we have an Adams apple?
24. Why do we feel cold when it is 30 degrees in the Fall but in the February 30 degrees seems warm?
25. Does weather affect attitudes?
26. Is energy ever destroyed or created?
27. What happens to garbage in a land fill?
28. What makes an animal wild?
29. Why do some foods give you a stomach ache?
30. Why does the ocean appear blue but when it is in a bucket it is clear?
31. Why is the sky blue by day and black at night?
32. Why do we hiccup?
33. Why is hair thicker on the head than the rest of the body?
34. What are freckles and why do we have them?
35. Why does the Bible say there is one glory of the sun, one glory of the moon, and one glory of the stars?
36. Why is snow 6 sided?
37. Why does liquid water turn to a solid at 32 degrees F.?
38. Why can't we see air?
39. Why does hair turn gray when we age?
40. Does sea currents affect climate?
41. Is everything, including non-living things, made of cells?
43. Does commercial feed, corn and grits, or range feed, increase egg production in chickens? What about other animals and feeds?
44. Why do trees have leaves?
45. How high can a model rocket fly?
46. Where are teeth stored?
47. What is the best way to care for teeth?
48. Is there a way for humans to get to Jupiter? Mars? etc.
49. How does friction work?
50. Why does blood look blue in our veins (it is actually dark red but looks blue when we see it through our skin and the walls of the veins) but turns bright red when we are cut? If we are cut in a vacuum or in an oxygen-free environment, would the blood stay dark?
51. Why do we have finger nails?
52. What was the weather like before the Flood?
53. Were all the animals friendly to man before the Flood? Idea: raise several baby animals like snake and mouse together to see if they remain friends as they are older.
54. Why do they live longer before the Flood?
55. Why do only mammals have hair?
56. Why do plants and insects die in the Fall?
57. Why is chlorophyll green?
58. Why did God create the moon to control the tides?
59. What is color?
60. What is heat?
61. What is light? Do Young's light experiments of 1800 which proves light is a wave. (see Space Medium, Barnes, 1986. p.126)
62. Why do plants give us oxygen?
63. What is electricity?
64. Why do we sleep at night? Do we have to sleep to rejuvenate the rods and cones in the eye?
65. What affects skin color? Is one color better than another? What was God's purpose in this?
66. What color is our brain?
67. What is the fastest speed something can go?
68. Why is a dog's nose wet?
69. Why do cats always land on there feet when they fall? Do other animals do this?
70. How do mice react after 24 hours of confinement? What about other animals?
71. How does soap clean?
72. What is God made of?
73. How does water turn into clouds?
74. What happens to eyes so you need glasses? Did God design them poorly?
75. What is plastic made out of?
76. Why do some people get allergic reactions?
77. How do we get headaches?
78. What is rubber made out of?
79. What are bones made out of?
80. Why did God make pests like bugs and mosquitoes?
81. Why are there joints and cracks in the earth's crust?
82. Why do our joints crack?
83. Why do people believe in Evolution?
84. What events caused them to become evolutionists?
85. How does a computer chip work?
86. How is a tooth cavity formed?
87. How does Novocain work?
88. How does glue stick?
89. Is posture related to digestion? Greeks lay down to eat, we sit up.
90. Why do we experience a feeling of fear? What makes this in our body?
91. Why do we need to eat?
92. Why do some animals lay eggs and others bear babies alive? Why did God do it this way?
93. Why do people sometimes eat and drink a lot when they are depressed?
94. Why does ocean air seem "fresher" than city or "land" air?
95. Are humans mammals? We thought they were made in God's image and not related to animals.
96. Does morning, night, or the Sun control how tired we are?
97. Why did God make birds to fly?
98. Were dinosaurs alive at the same time as humans?
99. Does a mare in foal become more ornery than one not?
100.What does an Adam's apple do on our throat?
101.If there were aliens, why would they visit humans?
102.Why do we have pimples? Did God goof?
103.Where was the Garden of Eden? Is it around today?
104.Why do cats hate dogs and dogs hate cats?
105.What are aliens and are there really any in our world? see Lamentations 5:2, Eph 2:12, Heb 11:34.
106.Can plants affect your growth?
107.How does pencil lead (graphite) stay on paper?
108.Why does our skin wrinkle?
109. Why does earth (dirt) crumble in your hand but is hard when you walk on it?
110. Why does lead melt at a low temperature?
111. Why are clouds white?
112. What is the difference between cold and warm blooded? Why did God do it this way?
113. How can we have hot and cold water in the ocean at the same time?
114. What shape is outer space?
115. If people stayed in caves with no clues to day and night, how long would their daily sleeping and waking times be? Would they set a 24 hour day? If not, what keeps us on schedule?

 
Solty Dog 2009-11-14 09:04:12 PM  
I was hoping to see "Is a lap dance better when the stripper is crying?"

 
Hilary T. N. Seuss 2009-11-14 09:04:31 PM  
In heaven, there will be no pictures that you can click and get a pop-up of the same damn picture, at the same damn size!

 
VvonderJesus 2009-11-14 09:06:36 PM  
s2.buzzfeed.com

Please please please, somebody with photoshop fu put Wil in this picture.

 
Acharne 2009-11-14 09:06:42 PM  
For the cats one: "My hypothesis was wrong, as they did not care either way."

God. I do not miss 'School.'

 
Yugoboy [TotalFark] 2009-11-14 09:06:52 PM  
Nakito: gilgamesh23: I opened it up and zoomed in on it and all there is is a blob of pixels. Disappointing.

Well, duh. You need to use a voice-activated computer and you need to keep saying, "zoom; clarify," until you finally get the level of resolution you want. It helps if the computer makes little "deedle-deedle" noises while the zooming and clarifying occurs.


I see someone else here watches too much TV and is also irritated by this bit of plot device...

My wife is used to this rant whenever they do it, and I've gotten tired of saying the same thing to an unhearing television

 
Cervidanti 2009-11-14 09:08:17 PM  
Let's LINK to a farking LINK!fark off subby. Also fark off incompetent moderators.

 
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