• This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Dumb meme. You can enjoy something without dedication or being good at it.

    I like watching F1 highlights (not even full race lmao) and only vehicle I can drive is a bicycle. 🤷‍♂️

    • [object Object]@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Watching races becomes way better if one plays some sim racing games and gets into adjusting the car for the track. Racing is a rare sport that one can somewhat experience themselves without athletic training.

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        1 month ago

        Sure, because baseball fans are the physical elite of the sports world. Playing a video game is nothing like actual track racing.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      OP has a point. Star Wars is not science fiction, it’s religious fantasy.

      It’s definitely not engineering otherwise they wouldn’t use 12 ft thick catwalks in space.

      • 1984@lemmy.today
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        1 month ago

        Well the meme is still stupid. :) Basically trying to say that only people who studied science are qualified to say they like science.

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          1 month ago

          Their face doesn’t go 🫤 at the sight of hard math & theory? The statement’s that it does.

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          1 month ago

          Maybe they’re trying to say that science (at least, Phys) without advanced calculus is “just” outreach or popularization. And they’re right, even if your sensibility can’t accept it.

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            1 month ago

            Does an F1 driver need to understand and utilize advanced calculus on the track to do well? I feel that concepts like grip/slip, aero, centripetal force, and weight transfer are intimately linked to an intuition for physics, even if they aren’t being understood at a calculus-requiring level by the driver.

            Yet, I would struggle to call that situation “outreach” or “popularizarion.” I would still consider the driver’s understanding of physics as tangential to science.

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                1 month ago

                I know they’re not a scientist. But to say they have no grasp or interest in science would also be wrong, so I think the answer lies somewhere in the gray area, and not this black and white perspective presented in OP.

                You can be enthusiastic and have a simplified-but-robust understanding of some kinds of science, that doesn’t make you less of an enjoyer. But there are certainly people who only understand at a surface level, yet pretend to be immersed in the material and demand to be treated like experts.