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  • pre industrial my ass, that shit is pre-enlightenment, pre-scientific revolution.

  • A part of this has been cut out. His last word. ".......none of which is fire Bitch"

  • What does faith have anything to do with Science?

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  • poor data ;_;

  • (jesuit priests that is)

  • Old Bitch

  • just like a philosophy professor.

  • This is a prime example a zealot - A person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.

  • @ekgjwejfopjp Its perfect example of a bad actor.

  • Her mind was so closed that she was unable to even consider the possibility that her understanding of the world may be flawed.

  • 00:50 Bitch what?

  • you'd get the exact same conversation if that woman had been replaced with Michele Bachman

  • the gri was acting like data commeted a crime

  • This is a little too mean to those living in preindustrial times. They didn't have anylitographs or mass spectrometers. The fact that wood was heavy and burnt WAS empirical evidence that it contained Fire and earth. They would say "Look! I can see it there with my own two eyes! What more evidence do you need!" This is why the idea of the 4 elements lasted so long: It made sense!

  • That woman acts like Data just committed Heresy!

  • SCREW SCIENCE I HAVE ANALOGIES

  • We have a Sarah Palin!

  • @charleshoskinson Science went through this exact same process on Earth, people didnt just go from thinking the world is flat to a total grasp of modern physics. Comparing this woman to some modern fundamentalist is so hopelessly stupid I cant even begin to feel sorry for you. Congratulations, you missed the point entirely.

  • @otherjr Actually I didn't. She was unrelenting in her belief and wasn't willing to consider outside possibilities. Sounds like a book burning Alaskan if I ever knew one.

  • @charleshoskinson She was unrelenting in her belief because this would sound ridiculous to her. Data is explaining science to her that would take hundreds of years to develop on her world, and hes just some nut that wondered out of the mountains. If someone started explaining how to travel faster than light to a modern day science teacher, im pretty sure you'd get the same result.

  • @otherjr I do not believe that is correct. I believe you are reasoning by analogy. A modern science teacher would have the skills inherent to science, that being the ability to take a suggested theory and make a reliable test to prove or disprove it and to show their results.

  • @Rhysesmum If you stumbled into some town with no memory of who you are, then told a science teacher how actually its possible to move faster than light, you think the teacher would go to the great lengths necessary to prove or disprove you?! After just one sentence from a total nobody? You carry out that experiment, then report back to me. After seeing that Data is actually pretty brilliant, this woman does start agreeing, but she wouldnt just do so straight away.

  • @otherjr I was using the lines from the video to comedic effect but I do think that a 'modern science teacher' as you said, would have the tools to at least listen and not just brush Data off. This episode is one the best TNG and I really like Data as a character.

  • @charleshoskinson

    That is short sighted. Prove the she said anything remotely like this

  • Damn creationists! =)

  • The Walton children never spoke back like that.

  • She reminds me of every Priest I've met.

  • @planetary109 I think she's hot!

  • @Chiellemoos Visit your local doctor to have your genetic hormones checked. O.O

  • @planetary109 You haven't met them all.

  • @planetary109 well, the Jesuits believe in evolution, the big bang, etc. but this woman definitely reminds me of Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman et al. ((roll eyes)) @ fundamentalists :-)

  • @planetary109 So she doesn't remind you of anyone?

  • She maks just ass much sense as Corabeth Godsie from the Waltons

  • What an idiot that woman was. How could humanity have ever been so ignorant as these people? Then again,many still are today. :P

    If we left it to the church we would still be burning people for contradicting the word of "God".

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  • Jayden? I thought he was Data

  • Fire may not be in wood, but one of the four elements, water, IS in it. The teacher isn't wrong here, Data misunderstood, and the teacher responded foolishly.

  • @capsule56 were you any other man I would kill you where you stand!

  • @capsule56 The fact that water is in wood is a lucky coincidence for the teacher, and none of the other " four elements" are in it, so she is very wrong.

  • @tml4873

    But you only need one, If you REALLY wanna get technical, wood is because of two of the four elements. Soil, and water. REALLY REALLY technical, it needs CO2, which is part of air, so it needs 3 of the elements.

  • @capsule56 "contains" and "needs / results in" are not the same. If you really want to get technical, none of air, water, earth or fire are elements at all.

  • teachers vs star trek!!

  • Yet in "The Outrageous Okana", Data says fish are amphibians...

    ...well, the writing in that episode was pure shit even by Enterprise standards...

  • hey! It looks like how sunday schools....! wait a minute.... :\

  • Data, you should know fire is in wood.

  • star trek vs teachers who will win?

  • A typical creationist class.

  • bash alchemy all you want but without alchemists playing around in the dark ages we wouldn't have the science we have today

  • This episode is so good.

  • most of the people today, friends, family, the boss, etc, are like her. bitch and think they know it all. data, I wish u killed them all

  • Damn you youtube, i wanted to avoid Star Trek because it got some major issues i cant overlook, but all this religion-bashing i see here makes me wonder if i shouldnt start watching it :<

  • This episode always makes me laugh. It's not bad, but I know someone called Jaiden, and he's far from intellectual. XD

  • shes like STFU JAYDEN

  • darn you Aristotle!

  • data is the atheist trying to talk since into the religious nutcase

  • @NizzBomb69 Don't bring religion into this lol. It just bums everyone out and makes things boring lol.

  • @CalebNelson64

    Fairly inaccurate, as she isn't talking religion. She's talking philosophy. It's obviously meant to be reminiscent of ancient Greek philosophy. Although flawed, such ideas would set the stage for science.

  • @wight1984 I was not saying it was. The other dude was the one talking about it. And i was just saying to not bring religion into this. Because all talking about religion on youtube does is start fights. And the fact that this had nothing to be with religion of any kind lol

  • Fucking creatards - can never get a word in with them.

  • @Phelan666

    Angry Atheist strikes again.

  • Data has certainly outsmarted his  pre-industrial teacher! Even though Data has lost his memory, he hasn't lost his intellect!

  • @snackman94 If he lost his memory then he should have lost that information.

  • @peronkop There's actually a difference in the way certain memories are stored in the human brain. Probably the same for Data, except maybe even more compartmentalized.

  • @snackman94 That sounds like something that a person lacking in rock and wood would say. Your fire and wind and metal elementals are imbalanced. You need help. Here, take this cocaine. You need to snort it. That's it.. just keep snorting it.. soon you will pass out. There ya go.. Goooood...

  • Data driving a horse and cart through the Prime Directive once again.

  • @jimbopumbapigsticks its not his fault, he lost his memory, at least the parts about being an android and from the 24th century, and another world...but somehow keeps much of his knowledge. little weird but lets go with it.

  • @tuseroni Well, he still is in the 24th century. These people are just far behind.

  • @jimbopumbapigsticks He wasnt aware of the prime directive or even of the federation and space travel during most of that episode. Amnesia. You know, the old fritzy android gag!

  • @jimbopumbapigsticks But of course knowledge like that which he was using during the clip is probably stored permanently in a hard-drive of some kind, and was never learned by him, he just knows it. The amnesia made him forget everything since he was created. Anyway, I'm showing my geekiness too much, I'm gonna walk away now...

  • @k1llk1ngph30n1x It's like amnesia. You don't forget who the president is or how to read. It doesn't affect that portion of the brain. Undoubtedly, that portion of Data's positronic net wasn't damaged.

  • @jimbopumbapigsticks He lost his memory, so he didn't have any knowledge of the prime directive.

  • @jimbopumbapigsticks true, but in that episode he had no memory of who or what he was, so i think we can just give him a warning.

  • @jimbopumbapigsticks A superb being made of the most advanced cybertronic technology in the world is already straner in a remote village on a technologically primitive world. I think the Prime Directive got thrown out the window long before this.

  • @jimbopumbapigsticks He'd make a fine Starfleet captain.

  • @jimbopumbapigsticks lol, well, to be fair, he didn't know anything about himself, personally.

  • Magnetically charged chunks of metal, by what means do they function?

  • @Anthonyk312 WITCHCRAFT!!

  • "I know I have lost most of my memories, but I know for a fact that fire is not an element."

    If he means the 3 elements (solid, liquid, gas) then I both agree and beg to differ. While fire is not a state of matter, it does represent a SUPPOSED 4th matter: Plasma.

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  • @team10leader Elements are carbon, hydrogen, copper, etc. Solid, liquid, gas and plasma are states of matter NOT elements. Elements meant Earth, Water, Air, and Fire in ancient Greece but that was the result of pure ignorance so Data is correct.

  • @sondano My bad entirely! I was just saying that I think "the four elements" were inspired by the 3 states of matter (solid liquid and gas) plus the additional one that people SUPPOSE is a state of matter (plasma).

  • @team10leader it is not supposed, it is fact. In fact there are over 9 states of matter, not just 3. They include Bose-Einstein Condensates, Fermionic Condensates, Superfluids, Quark-gluon Plasma, degenerate matter, and the 4 common states, Plasma, gas, solid, and liquid. Stars are made up of Plasma and its the most abundant states, so no it is not just a supposed concept.

  • @Anthonyk312 I was just being careful when I said SUPPOSED. I can't afford to sound like a know-it-all, you know?

    You truly have a knack for science.

  • @team10leader Why thank you. Compliments are rare on youtube comments.

  • @Anthonyk312 Respectively: You're quite welcome, and, tell me about it. Though I have a feeling manners (such as your basic magic words "Thank you" and "You're welcome") haven't gone out of style on Youtube as far as I can tell.

  • @team10leader So, what does team 10 do? You may not be a "Data" but Humility is a sure sign of a leader... oh and having leader in your title doesn't hurt either.

    XD

    You're welcome.

    I mean that literally, come on by anytime.

    ;P

  • @Anthonyk312 I think the key here is humility, not just compliments... I sure am glad you said "over 9.000"!

    Sry, I just gotta bring us down a notch.

    ;)

    Ok, now back to Schrödinger...

  • Having a PhD from an unaccredited university is nearly useless. A PhD in general demonstrates exceptional knowledge in the field in which is was granted, but not fields outside of that specialization. So a PhD in applied theology from an unaccredited university means that you have no business talking biology at any level above high school. So if the university is accredited, and their PhD is pertinent to the discussion, there is a high probability that they are right. Unless they're a liar.

  • her element speech actually makes sense

  • @IIIIandrew no it doesnt

  • @IIIIandrew yes it does

  • @DJTripleThreat78 -tries really hard to not lecture about inductors and their relationship to magnets-

  • @dashwarts lol

  • I'm a computer. Stop all the downloadin'

  • @trisky1234 classic :)

  • Fire is not IN wood. Idiots.

    Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.

    The "fire" you see is the heat and light energy created by the rapid oxidation of, in this case, wood in the process of combustion.

    Therefore, fire is not in wood. Fire is pure energy.

    Fuck 12 year olds.

  • Data = Me

    Teacher = Creationist I'm arguing with.

  • @TheNamelessCharacter

    lol dude, there are many creationists who are Phd's. don't be a numbskull.

  • @PoisonousFish13D Some of them might have legitimate PhD's, does that mean they are automatically correct scientifically on any topic they talk about?

    I can say this with a degree of confidence, having a PhD doesn't make someone instantly infallible.

  • @TheNamelessCharacter Yup...having a degree hanging on the wall doesn't imply they are smarter just more versed in BS than the guy who doesn't.

  • @TheNamelessCharacter and I bet you're the one that started the arguement huh?

  • @TheNamelessCharacter Not really, since she's not speaking about Creationism or any sort of higher being.

  • @ElTee842 i believe it's called a metaphor.

  • @TheNamelessCharacter Ah, but some intelligent lifeform did create you! Deny this and you deny yourself as an intelligent lifeform and make all the 'Your mother is so...' jokes totally invalid.

  • @crazy8sdrums Some life form did make me. Through a natural process.

    My mother did not make me by simply clicking her fingers and saying "Abra-cadabra!"

  • @TheNamelessCharacter and empirical evidence to corroborate this ASSumption?

  • Now you know, how I feel when I’m around “average Joes”… :/

  • Of course there is `fire` in wood, and actually everything, yes. Matter goes to zero mass at absolute zero. ;-) SPECIALLY in living cells, dont you say you "burn" food for energy? Your metabolism "buuuurns" sugars for ATP.... The map is not the territory.

  • @trickyoutrickme if you listen carefully they are both right.. infact.. they are kinda saying the same thing..  she explains fire is already in the wood.. which is right when you go deep enough.. data pretty much says the same thing only that he dosent view the matter deep within as the definiton of "fire" yet

  • @Xirus5 [slap ]

  • @trickyoutrickme

    Fire is a type of reaction. It does not exist in wood but can happen to wood under certain circumstances.

  • This scene is EPIC I tell you

  • the 4 elements idea was obtained through intelligent means. Its just the difference between alchemy and chemistry

  • Data is the coolest

  • I love Data

  • fucking magnets! how do they work?

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  • @calvinist100 it was a joke.

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  • @DJTripleThreat78

    By the electrron's lining up

  • @DJTripleThreat78

    The metal has unfilled electrion orbitals which gives it a diamagnetic abiltiy, i.e. being able to create a magnetic field. Paramagnetic materials can also create a magnetic field but they need to be exposed to an external magnetic field first.

  • @xbox644

    what about silver as it act ambigous towards a magnetic force?

  • Damn it Data...dont Science at the Christians!!

  • @DaytonaRoadster I'm pretty sure Christians don't believe that today.

  • @DaytonaRoadster BOY HAVE YOU GOT IT WRONG!!! I'm Christian and I love Science. Science often supports faith. If the world was created by a big bang that doesn't mean that God didn't make the big bang happen. I consider science as more proof of God. Because the world being so complex implies thought and a plan rather than random occurance.

  • @Miracle490d uh huh

  • @Miracle490d

    Well most atheist anger(and thus arguments) is directed more at radical fundamentalist christians. They do unfortunately start thinking of all christians that way, but that's just typical psychology(or well, stupidity)

  • @DaytonaRoadster

    I think you have to stretch this scene to direct it at Christians. The teacher doesn't even seem to be analogous to Christians. The inspiration for this scene seems to be Ancient Greek philosophical understanding of the universe; that's where we get our discussion of 'elements' from, not Christianity.

  • @wight1984 It's a pretty clear reference to small pockets of fundamentalist Christians who have 'faith' the world is 6000 years old and we are descendants of Adam and Eve. But it's a general weil but the obvious reference to 'faith' clearly lends itself to the Western concept of Christianity. Data is an atheist by default it seems.

  • @Water4Jeremiah

    If that was the intention, ancient Greek philosophy was a pretty silly way of illustrating it. Ancient philosophy may not have been as impressive as empirical science as we know it to do, but it wasn't dogmatic or unthinking; it was an attempt to understand the world via reason.

    The teacher wasn't teaching from scripture either; there's very little in this scene that really relates to fundamentalist Christianity.

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  • @CalebNelson64

    You should follow the thread before you make comments. I was replying to Water4Jeremiah who was explicitly talking about this scene being a reference to fundamentalist Christianity. If you read my comment through, you'll see that I state rather clearly that I think the inspiration is ancient philosophy, not Christian fundamentalism.

  • @Water4Jeremiah well data is made up of pure logic and logic would indicate no existence of a god

  • @ralphy329 *whispers* I agree, but just don't go telling that to people who aren't as accepting of rational arguments.

  • @Water4Jeremiah you mean 90% of every religious person?

  • @ralphy329 100%

  • @wight1984 odviously, however its a well know fact of fundementalist christians hatered for science and reason

  • @DaytonaRoadster

    yes its ok to kill non christians and no need to worry about them or muslims but we have to get angry when a christian in killed or when a jew flattens a home with a muslim mother or baby is inside! its the chritian thing to do!

  • I can imagine this happening in Texas, right after creationism hour.

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  • the hero of canton, the man they call Jayden

  • Bitch just got learned!

  • she sounds like a lunatic creationist....

  • wood is made from th e stuff in my pants giggity

  • Christian science?

  • @gaara2910 Muslim science?

  • Yeah! Fk you Jaden!

  • What a bitch!

  • I've always loved the name Jayden. I wanted to name my kid that but hubby vetoed that name.

  • Science for the win!

  • Science for the win!

  • This is probably my favorite episode, Mr. Radioactive! It amazes me how sometimes the "recommended for you" videos can be so far off, and sometimes give me stuff like this :D

  • even if i created God (which i not), creationist is still wrongly interpreted, because you're trying to say that fanaticism or fanatics who believe in God (that is what most scientists think of believers) who only think about what there church leaders say, and too much scientists believe in teories that are not verified with the truth.

    i am a person that seeks the complete truth with real examples based on real life, and to me teories are only a posible truth, not the provable truth.

  • his hair is made from dianas pubs..... gotta love data

  • I missed the point of this video.

  • like a scientist talking to a creationist.

  • @manbearpig900

    is not science what God created? or is it creationist wrongly interpreted?

  • @hunoatila Your god didn't create anything, you created him.

  • data owned but got owned back :D

  • Fire is so an element! It's between "Tabasco" and "Teflon".

  • What's funny about this, is that it is exactly the same as 90% of conversations with Republican Evangelicals and Islam followers etc... on a whole host of topics.

  • @CmdrTobs

    Its because both parties are not able and will no be able to see the details of correct interpretation and empirical reserch on a truth basis instead of using there own misleading ideas.

  • @hunoatila Both parties? There may well be people who vote Democratic in N America who believe irrational things but in the western* world I have never seen a party like the Republicans, who happily subscribe to policy positions based on irrational means.

    *A country that is industrialised and has the vast majority of its population living out of poverty and in Cities that has $15K> GDP per cap.

  • I'm starting to realize just how awesome this show was.

  • Lucky they didn't try blood letting on him.

  • lol this clip made me laugh cuz the teacher got schooled by our Data!

    amazing he's lost his memory but is able to remember that bit of info! :P

  • @ROSE911GUNDAM Its quite a obvious deduction for a highly analytical unprejudiced mind.

  • @ROSE911GUNDAM

    yes, way to go Data!

  • And this is Star Trek, we're here to watch Data pwn pre-industrial Classical Greek chemistry.

  • The question is not how does one precieve another but how one's own self precieves each.

    If science in some way dissproves religion and that either turns you away from science or your religion than I feel sorry for you. One must remember that most religious texts weren't written to convey anything but religion, and sciencetific text to convey science.

    Personally for me science enriches how awesome the creator is. It allows