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Re:Hollywood's Portrayals of Science and Scientists Are Ridi... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @09:00PM (#18917659)
Hollywood's portrayals of everyone are ridiculous. Cops. Nurses. Railroad engineers. Librarians. Teachers. Kids. Everyone.
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Re:Hollywood's Portrayals of Science and Scientists Are Ridi... by eecsninja on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:54AM (#18919514)
Computers too. E.g. Remember the 3d landscape Unix interface in Jurassic Park?
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Re:Hollywood's Portrayals of Science and Scientists Are Ridi... by marpstar on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:57AM (#18921898)
That's totally a real thing: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9745/is-the-unix-...
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Re:Hollywood's Portrayals of Science and Scientists Are Ridi... by eecsninja on Thursday January 17, 2019 @10:36PM (#18936833)
Wow I had no idea until now. And I've been using Linux at work for close to a decade.
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Re:Hollywood's Portrayals of Science and Scientists Are Ridi... by marpstar on Friday January 18, 2019 @07:37PM (#18944455)
Can't blame you. It's as ridiculous in 2019 as it was in 1993.
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Re:Hollywood's Portrayals of Science and Scientists Are Ridi... by ncmncm on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @01:03AM (#18918594)
Gods.
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