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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I spent two weeks looking forward to mammoth after spotting an advertisement for it and then I was just really toasted and I caught the last five minutes

    It was just

    what

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Yeeeeesssssssss

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Butler wrote: »
    Yeeeeesssssssss

    Nice. I'll have to pick it up when it comes out.

    Marathon on
  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Mysst wrote: »
    I totally have like, a thousand uses for that gag reflex thing.

    well, ok, fine, only one.

    A thousand nano-peen uses, that is.

    I think I've seen Pterodactyl, too. And the one with the conquistadors versus the T-Rex. I should have a marathon someday.

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  • DavoidDavoid Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Marathon wrote: »
    Butler wrote: »
    Yeeeeesssssssss

    Nice. I'll have to pick it up when it comes out.

    Awesome, going back to his roots I see

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    redhead wrote: »
    Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »
    Someone link that article that mentioned that girls who give you blowjobs are more likely to get pregnant because their bodies learn to recognise your sperm or something like that.

    what?

    Yeah no joke, it was science!

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Davoid wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Butler wrote: »
    Yeeeeesssssssss

    Nice. I'll have to pick it up when it comes out.

    Awesome, going back to his roots I see

    His youtube channel is also awesome.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/richarddawkinsdotnet?blend=1&ob=4

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  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »
    redhead wrote: »
    Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »
    Someone link that article that mentioned that girls who give you blowjobs are more likely to get pregnant because their bodies learn to recognise your sperm or something like that.

    what?

    Yeah no joke, it was science!

    that doesn't sound very likely!

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Butler wrote: »
    Yeeeeesssssssss
    Fuck yeah. That's a pretty great name for an Evolution book.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    redhead wrote: »
    Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »
    redhead wrote: »
    Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »
    Someone link that article that mentioned that girls who give you blowjobs are more likely to get pregnant because their bodies learn to recognise your sperm or something like that.

    what?

    Yeah no joke, it was science!

    that doesn't sound very likely!

    I can't for the life of me remember where I saw the article, and what the exact premise behind it was, but I don't really feel like googling for it.

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I can't help but feel slightly disappointed with that new Dawkins book. Not that Dawkins is bringing out a new book, but that such a book is even necessary. Who is the target audience for that book? Is it simply people who are on the fence about evolution, or is it for those bible thumping creationist nuts?

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2009
    redhead wrote: »
    Mysst wrote: »
    it is scientifically proven that these new prius commercials will insure I never, ever buy one

    I haven't seen these, but toyota has always had really terrible commercials

    I dunno what's up with that

    Unlike Honda

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwRCBHhyrAA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjyWP2LfbyQ

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_1gPRCLCo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2VCfOC69jc

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    I can't help but feel slightly disappointed with that new Dawkins book. Not that Dawkins is bringing out a new book, but that such a book is even necessary. Who is the target audience for that book? Is it simply people who are on the fence about evolution, or is it for those bible thumping creationist nuts?

    The target audience is hopefully broad. But unfortunately I have a feeling only people who already accept and understand evolution will buy it. After The God Delusion he's probably seen as too extreme for the hardcore religious to even consider taking him seriously.

    Hopefully it will be a good read like his other books and some of those on the fence will come to understand evolution better.

    Marathon on
  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Straightzi wrote: »
    While that's pretty awesome, it's also kinda disappointing

    The bacteria thing was just so cool and fucked up

    Don't worry


    it's still true with crocodiles.

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2009
    Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »
    redhead wrote: »
    Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »
    redhead wrote: »
    Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »
    Someone link that article that mentioned that girls who give you blowjobs are more likely to get pregnant because their bodies learn to recognise your sperm or something like that.

    what?

    Yeah no joke, it was science!

    that doesn't sound very likely!

    I can't for the life of me remember where I saw the article, and what the exact premise behind it was, but I don't really feel like googling for it.

    Surely it would work the other way around and they'd develop anti-bodies to fight off your sperm more efficiently in the future?

    Now if you were to drop a load right into their bone marrow...

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Marathon wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    I can't help but feel slightly disappointed with that new Dawkins book. Not that Dawkins is bringing out a new book, but that such a book is even necessary. Who is the target audience for that book? Is it simply people who are on the fence about evolution, or is it for those bible thumping creationist nuts?

    The target audience is hopefully broad. But unfortunately I have a feeling only people who already accept and understand evolution will buy it. After The God Delusion he's probably seen as too extreme for the hardcore religious to even consider taking him seriously.

    Hopefully it will be a good read like his other books and some of those on the fence will come to understand evolution better.
    Maybe. I really hope this book causes a fucking earthquake on the side of the religious right, though. If it's covered by lots of news outlets as an item of controversy, that can only increase the amount of people that are going to read it.

    But yeah, I'm still disappointed that such a book is still necessary in the 21st fucking century.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    I can't help but feel slightly disappointed with that new Dawkins book. Not that Dawkins is bringing out a new book, but that such a book is even necessary. Who is the target audience for that book? Is it simply people who are on the fence about evolution, or is it for those bible thumping creationist nuts?

    The target audience is hopefully broad. But unfortunately I have a feeling only people who already accept and understand evolution will buy it. After The God Delusion he's probably seen as too extreme for the hardcore religious to even consider taking him seriously.

    Hopefully it will be a good read like his other books and some of those on the fence will come to understand evolution better.
    Maybe. I really hope this book causes a fucking earthquake on the side of the religious right, though. If it's covered by lots of news outlets as an item of controversy, that can only increase the amount of people that are going to read it.

    But yeah, I'm still disappointed that such a book is still necessary in the 21st fucking century.

    This strikes me as staggeringly naive.

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    sarukun wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    I can't help but feel slightly disappointed with that new Dawkins book. Not that Dawkins is bringing out a new book, but that such a book is even necessary. Who is the target audience for that book? Is it simply people who are on the fence about evolution, or is it for those bible thumping creationist nuts?

    The target audience is hopefully broad. But unfortunately I have a feeling only people who already accept and understand evolution will buy it. After The God Delusion he's probably seen as too extreme for the hardcore religious to even consider taking him seriously.

    Hopefully it will be a good read like his other books and some of those on the fence will come to understand evolution better.
    Maybe. I really hope this book causes a fucking earthquake on the side of the religious right, though. If it's covered by lots of news outlets as an item of controversy, that can only increase the amount of people that are going to read it.

    But yeah, I'm still disappointed that such a book is still necessary in the 21st fucking century.

    This strikes me as staggeringly naive.
    How so? Do you mean I'm underestimating how few people accept evolution? I'm not quite following you.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    I can't help but feel slightly disappointed with that new Dawkins book. Not that Dawkins is bringing out a new book, but that such a book is even necessary. Who is the target audience for that book? Is it simply people who are on the fence about evolution, or is it for those bible thumping creationist nuts?

    The target audience is hopefully broad. But unfortunately I have a feeling only people who already accept and understand evolution will buy it. After The God Delusion he's probably seen as too extreme for the hardcore religious to even consider taking him seriously.

    Hopefully it will be a good read like his other books and some of those on the fence will come to understand evolution better.
    Maybe. I really hope this book causes a fucking earthquake on the side of the religious right, though. If it's covered by lots of news outlets as an item of controversy, that can only increase the amount of people that are going to read it.

    But yeah, I'm still disappointed that such a book is still necessary in the 21st fucking century.

    This strikes me as staggeringly naive.
    How so? Do you mean I'm underestimating how few people accept evolution? I'm not quite following you.

    The world is a big place with many cultures and many styles and levels of education.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Wow

    Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
    In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

    Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives in Asia. Another group is known as the adapidae, a precursor of today's lemurs in Madagascar.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Wow

    Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
    In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

    Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives in Asia. Another group is known as the adapidae, a precursor of today's lemurs in Madagascar.

    Fucking sweet.

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    sarukun wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    I can't help but feel slightly disappointed with that new Dawkins book. Not that Dawkins is bringing out a new book, but that such a book is even necessary. Who is the target audience for that book? Is it simply people who are on the fence about evolution, or is it for those bible thumping creationist nuts?

    The target audience is hopefully broad. But unfortunately I have a feeling only people who already accept and understand evolution will buy it. After The God Delusion he's probably seen as too extreme for the hardcore religious to even consider taking him seriously.

    Hopefully it will be a good read like his other books and some of those on the fence will come to understand evolution better.
    Maybe. I really hope this book causes a fucking earthquake on the side of the religious right, though. If it's covered by lots of news outlets as an item of controversy, that can only increase the amount of people that are going to read it.

    But yeah, I'm still disappointed that such a book is still necessary in the 21st fucking century.

    This strikes me as staggeringly naive.
    How so? Do you mean I'm underestimating how few people accept evolution? I'm not quite following you.

    The world is a big place with many cultures and many styles and levels of education.

    Point taken.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    Marathon wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    I can't help but feel slightly disappointed with that new Dawkins book. Not that Dawkins is bringing out a new book, but that such a book is even necessary. Who is the target audience for that book? Is it simply people who are on the fence about evolution, or is it for those bible thumping creationist nuts?

    The target audience is hopefully broad. But unfortunately I have a feeling only people who already accept and understand evolution will buy it. After The God Delusion he's probably seen as too extreme for the hardcore religious to even consider taking him seriously.

    Hopefully it will be a good read like his other books and some of those on the fence will come to understand evolution better.
    Maybe. I really hope this book causes a fucking earthquake on the side of the religious right, though. If it's covered by lots of news outlets as an item of controversy, that can only increase the amount of people that are going to read it.

    But yeah, I'm still disappointed that such a book is still necessary in the 21st fucking century.

    This strikes me as staggeringly naive.
    How so? Do you mean I'm underestimating how few people accept evolution? I'm not quite following you.

    The world is a big place with many cultures and many styles and levels of education.

    Point taken.

    Quite so old bean.

    Another glass of sherry?

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    sarukun wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Wow

    Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
    In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

    Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives in Asia. Another group is known as the adapidae, a precursor of today's lemurs in Madagascar.

    Fucking sweet.
    Awww shit. This is cool.

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    sarukun wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Wow

    Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
    In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

    Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives in Asia. Another group is known as the adapidae, a precursor of today's lemurs in Madagascar.

    Fucking sweet.

    Yeah, but where are the fossils that link those 3 together? Evilution is full of these types of holes!

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Marathon wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Wow

    Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
    In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

    Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives in Asia. Another group is known as the adapidae, a precursor of today's lemurs in Madagascar.

    Fucking sweet.

    Yeah, but where are the fossils that link those 3 together? Evilution is full of these types of holes!

    I'll fill your hole with my dick.




    Am I doing this right?

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Marathon wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Wow

    Fossil Discovery Is Heralded
    In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.

    Anthropologists have long believed that humans evolved from ancient ape-like ancestors. Some 50 million years ago, two ape-like groups walked the Earth. One is known as the tarsidae, a precursor of the tarsier, a tiny, large-eyed creature that lives in Asia. Another group is known as the adapidae, a precursor of today's lemurs in Madagascar.

    Fucking sweet.

    Yeah, but where are the fossils that link those 3 together? Evilution is full of these types of holes!

    One gap filled means another two gaps are made!

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited May 2009
    Man dru, you're a total buzzkill in the morning.

    Bacteria mouthed dragons was one of the last threads I held on to.

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    In all seriousness, that's a cool discovery.

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    venomating all the peoples

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    venomating all the peoples

    moar like venomfang-x

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited May 2009
    thats my gaia online sn

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Marathon wrote: »
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    venomating all the peoples

    moar like venomfang-x

    oh god, no

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Huh, nice

    But my absolute favouritest stuff is when we find really really ancient humans because it confuses the fuck out of the morons which insist that the world is like <7,000 years old

    I mean I can love all the world like a brother or a hot step-sister and I don't care about faith and religion but it's beyond me how anyone can think that while maintaining the brain power necessary to breathe

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    robothero wrote: »
    thats my gaia online sn

    post avatar or gtfo

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Followup: Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution

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    Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.

    The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York.

    The discovery of the 95%-complete 'lemur monkey' - dubbed Ida - is described by experts as the "eighth wonder of the world".

    They say its impact on the world of palaeontology will be "somewhat like an asteroid falling down to Earth".

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The fact that it's a near complete fossil, that's 47 million years old, is pretty badass.

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    dang, i'm kinda disappointed we don't have rocking huge tails

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    That is a pretty damn long tail.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Sir David Attenborough wrote:
    "This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of the mammals. This is the one that connects us directly with them," he said.

    "Now people can say 'okay we are primates, show us the link'. The link they would have said up to now is missing - well it's no longer missing."

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