Comments on: Sharing the TV between Math-based Disciplines

By: Cheshire Catt

Cheshire Catt — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:22:49 +0000

I love that show!

By: sjerrie

sjerrie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:46:53 +0000

numb3rs uses math aksually

there is a site with the actual calculations being used for each episode

By: Sato

Sato — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:42:57 +0000

Well since Physics is applied Mathematics and Engineering is applied Physics, I pronounce this a fail. And besides Myth Busters is the only show that actually USES any of them.

By: Alixandria

Alixandria — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:54:28 +0000

I LOVE the geeks – especially Sheldon!

By: Vigilante Sandvich

Vigilante Sandvich — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:36:27 +0000

I hear moose bites can be pretty painful.

By: Caity Lynne

Caity Lynne — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:06:04 +0000

Sheldon’s my favorite

By: Devylan

Devylan — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:11:04 +0000

excellent

By: BringingSassyBack

BringingSassyBack — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:53:33 +0000

Wolowitz owns

By: nicole

nicole — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:55:53 +0000

As an engineer who loves TBBT and has engineering coworker friends who love it, I strongly disagree. My enjoyment of seeing it in the middle made me totally miss the glaring faults of the diagram.

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:04:23 +0000

spelling fail

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:49:17 +0000

EPIC + WIN = The Big Bang Theory

By: Halfingr

Halfingr — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:23:50 +0000

Take the big bang theory out of the equation and put mythbusters in the middle, and that might actually be sorta funny.

By: Flamebait

Flamebait — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:18:02 +0000

I’m so glad I’m majoring in mechannicle enginnering and not english, or I might get upset about this graph.

By: i_says

i_says — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:52:00 +0000

Ugh, I watched an episode of big bang theory and it was painfully dumb. it was more or less “lets pack all the nerdy steriotypes into as few characters as we can”.
thats coming from someone who graduated in comp-sci and used to be in engineering… so i love nerdy stuff.

how did this show get so popular? none of the characters have any personality, just gimmicks.

By: Spudd86

Spudd86 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:10:07 +0000

yes, yes it does

By: Spudd86

Spudd86 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:09:08 +0000

Also Numb3rs does a bunch of stuff that really falls under Computer Science… and that’s not even on the diagram

By: harr

harr — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:31:01 +0000

You idiots rant on about semantics and masturbation… AWESOME GRAPH!!!!

By: persona

persona — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:55:33 +0000

I think that means CSI = 0

By: fries789

fries789 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:51:23 +0000

the term ‘math’ is used in the usa, and the term ‘maths’ is used in england, new zealand, australia and many other countries. both can be considered correct.

By: Jefoid

Jefoid — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:58:24 +0000

I’ll try to be more oblivious next time.

By: :)

:) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:48:36 +0000

Oh, you silly prescriptionist. Welcome to the world, also known as what actually happens! Also, what happens everywhere west of you. Britain isn’t everything.

By: CoreyCaffeine

CoreyCaffeine — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:45:45 +0000

Spellcheck FTW! I love Mudkipz!

By: quotedb

quotedb — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:28:55 +0000

Actually, The Big Bang Theory is becoming more and more popular

By: in_a_box

in_a_box — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:36:45 +0000

Almost as fun as Mathsturbation

By: in_a_box

in_a_box — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:33:22 +0000

It’s MacGyver. No u. With an a. Also with an apostrophe between t and s.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:41:12 +0000

i <3 mythbusters they make things go BOOM!

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:37:29 +0000

I don’t think anyone watches The Big Bang Theory. MythBusters, on the other hand, is well beloved by all.

By: cherylface

cherylface — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:26:25 +0000

I’ve never heard it referred to as Maths within the US, and I never heard of it referred to as such before I was twenty. I’m pretty sure Math-based stands as proper usage for the United States.

By: blah

blah — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:03:45 +0000

wohohoho, crazy! I never realized that it’s maths, not math before! Maths-based does not roll off the tongue easily. (No sarcasm, I’m serious!)
-thx

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:15:43 +0000

Maths-based .. not Math-Based .. idiots.

By: nuh-UH

nuh-UH — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:43:26 +0000

No, YOU!

By: DC

DC — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:31:15 +0000

The explosions?

By: Anonynyny

Anonynyny — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:51:46 +0000

Thats like.. Win = Win + Fail!? in theory this is a good chart, but the execution is fail.

By: Anonynyny

Anonynyny — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:49:25 +0000

Pointing out the obvious win.

By: KJ

KJ — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:45:11 +0000

I *did* misspell it intentionally. But so few seem to get their/they’re/there accurate, your intention wasn’t as obvious to me.

By: in_a_box

in_a_box — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:17:43 +0000

There’s a lot of chemistry based mathematics involved in the show. Kind of important to know how much potentially volatile substance to use.

By: in_a_box

in_a_box — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:15:16 +0000

Ignore KJ, it was a great comeback! Who has dicipline anyway? Sounds a bit BDSM to me…

By: in_a_box

in_a_box — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:12:14 +0000

I am wondering that myself. What about the swing experiment? The “how much force” classics? The “hitting the ground running”?

By: cherylface

cherylface — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:08:05 +0000

lol. But the point is that they’re “Math-based” and that means that the person making the graph is admitting that they all have something to do with Mathematics anyway.

By: cherylface

cherylface — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:06:30 +0000

You never saw that myth that 2+2 actually equals five? Kidding aside, the graph is all wrong.

By: Ralf

Ralf — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:21:07 +0000

House = House + CSI

By: Jefoid

Jefoid — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:03:12 +0000

Um, I thought you misspelled discipline intentionally. So I… never mind.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:10:29 +0000

I agree. I just finished physics last semester. Of course, Mythbusters almost always deals with kinetics, not modern physics (like photoelectricity and mass defect – which belongs in Chemistry anyway.)

By: Baffled

Baffled — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:46:54 +0000

What mathematics does Myth Busters ever use outside of the mathematics used in physics?

By: Webby

Webby — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:12:24 +0000

ROFL enginnering

By: ChaR

ChaR — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:11:59 +0000

The middle should of been Walker Texas Ranger because Chuck Norris defies all of those things.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:53:25 +0000

…

AHAHAHA, REALLY.

By: pmcatnip

pmcatnip — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:28:06 +0000

Short answer, no. Physics borrows from math, engineering borrows from physics; engineers barely remember how to do math.

By: pmcatnip

pmcatnip — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:20:24 +0000

Well I’m an engineer and I make spelling a top priority! As do many of my peers.

That said, this graph obviously wasn’t created by an engineer because Mythbusters should go in the middle, the Big Bang Theory should go between physics and math (engineers don’t care about the Big Bang), and Bill Nye the Science Guy should go on there somewhere.

I think this is some art major’s perception of the sciences, not somebody from within.

By: cherylface

cherylface — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:11:24 +0000

Erm–Doesn’t calling them Math-based “Diciplines” kind of negate the whole thing anyway? In that sense, wouldn’t they all be Mathematics?

I mean, on top of all the other things that are horribly wrong with this graph.