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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | [[Megan]] is frustrated that a data error invalidates her research, which she was just ready to publish. [[Black Hat]] tells her not | + | {{incomplete|Created by a data error. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | [[Megan]] is frustrated that a data error invalidates her research, which she was just ready to publish. [[Black Hat]] tells her to not panic and states there are two options. | ||
− | Option one is to redo her analysis and share the correct results | + | Option one is to redo her analysis and share the correct results also if negative. Negative results are also important, and although it is disappointing, she would be trying to extract some value from the research. |
− | Option two fits the [[classhole]] expectation from Black Hat | + | Option two, fits the [[classhole]] expectation from Black Hat as he suggest she should destroy the evidence, use her research materials to build a superweapon and use it to conquer the world and rule it with an iron fist! |
− | + | At first Megan seems excited about this idea, but then she uses her research topic in a sentence which makes it obvious that this second suggestion is not really an option, since her research is about the productivity of {{w|algae}}. Humorously she states that at least she can make people tremble before her and her anomalously productive algae. Only to realize that it was the data error that made her algae look productive, so they are merely normal algae. And she corrects herself to ''Tremble before my normal algae!'' She is of course making a joke on Black Hat. | |
− | Destroying the evidence, hiding the error and publishing the wrong results as if they were right is what a dishonest scientist would do in such a situation. | + | Destroying the evidence, hiding the error and publishing the wrong results as if they were right is what a dishonest scientist would do in such a situation. Which is what would be expected by a dishonest character as Black Hat... But the unexpected turn is that Black Hat passes over the {{w|scientific misconduct}} to go directly to pure supervillainhood. He obviously has some other ideas about what a researcher uses her time on, cause he most likely did not expect Megan to be frustrated about Algae. |
− | The title text refers to the {{w|Great Oxidation Event}}, when prokaryotic photosynthetic organisms built up oxygen in Earth's atmosphere for the first time and most organisms, which weren't adapted to oxygen, went extinct. | + | The title text refers to the {{w|Great Oxidation Event}}, when prokaryotic photosynthetic organisms built up oxygen in Earth's atmosphere for the first time and most organisms, which weren't adapted to oxygen, went extinct. That suggests that algae may be somehow dangerous - although {{w|cyanobacteria}}, which are colloquially referred to as "blue-green algae", are not considered to be true algae by many scientists, who restrict the term to {{w|eukaryotes}}. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Megan is | + | :[Megan is talknig to Black Hat.] |
:Megan: I can't believe this data error invalidates a year and a half of my research. | :Megan: I can't believe this data error invalidates a year and a half of my research. | ||
:Megan: I was about to publish. | :Megan: I was about to publish. | ||
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:Black Hat: 1) Redo your analysis and share whatever results you can, whether positive or negative. It's disappointing, but these things happen. | :Black Hat: 1) Redo your analysis and share whatever results you can, whether positive or negative. It's disappointing, but these things happen. | ||
− | :[Zoom out on Black Hat and Megan. Black Hat holds his closed fist up in front of him. Megan throws both arms up in the air.] | + | :[Zoom out on Black Hat and Megan. Black Hat holds his closed his fist up in front of him. Megan ahas throws both arms up in the air.] |
:Black Hat: 2) Destroy the evidence. Use your materials and research methods to build a superweapon. Conquer Earth and rule with an iron fist. | :Black Hat: 2) Destroy the evidence. Use your materials and research methods to build a superweapon. Conquer Earth and rule with an iron fist. | ||
:Megan: '''''Tremble before my anomalously productive algae!''''' | :Megan: '''''Tremble before my anomalously productive algae!''''' | ||
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[[Category:Biology]] | [[Category:Biology]] | ||
[[Category:Science]] | [[Category:Science]] | ||
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