Civil engineers did not accidentally figure out how to plan city sewage systems.
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Omg. Did a physicist tell yeti to insulate its cups or do we just know about insulation because basic physics has permeated most people’s consciousness?
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Replying to @TWLadyGrey @TheWeaseKing and
Generally just knowing how insulation works from unconscious personal experience (like the SNL sketch, "Fucking blankets, how do they work?!") is usually brought up as the ultimate example of what ISN'T science
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TWLadyGrey and
If a child knowing that it's warmer under the blankets than without the blankets is "science" then literally everything humans do is science "And when everything is science... nothing will be" - Syndrome
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheWeaseKing and
Holy shit you’re a smug asshole. Nobody said kids in blankets is science but belittling the arguments of others is the only way you know to sound right. I know you’re going to block me, but it’s worth it.
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Replying to @TWLadyGrey @TheWeaseKing and
You literally said an inventor knowing to make an insulated vessel to keep beverages warm or cold was a result of "physics permeating people's consciousness"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TWLadyGrey and
"Invention" and "science" really are two very separate things, and a lot of invention has been based on clever application of already established "common knowledge" rather than what we would call "doing science"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TWLadyGrey and
The practical knowledge of how insulation works greatly predates Lord Kelvin or thermodynamics, and in fact turning that intuitive knowledge into a formalized science (creating a scientific definition of "temperature" etc) was this whole big thing
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(I've yet to find a formal phrase that captures well what I mean by "was a whole big thing" "Was a nontrivial exercise", perhaps)
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