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April LC Thread: Special "No Collusion" Survivor White House Edition

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04-15-2019 , 09:03 AM

#1751

DodgerIrish

Fraudulent Zodiac

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 28,186

Platypus Venn is a great band name.

04-15-2019 , 09:37 AM

#1752

ChrisV

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 40,336

Quote:

Originally Posted by Money2Burn

It’s the pork of the future!

I've posted about it before but emu is gross. Kangaroo is nice. Crocodile is like a chewier chicken, not good, not bad really.

04-15-2019 , 09:39 AM

#1753

SenorKeeed

mew mew mew

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 37,478

Quote:

Originally Posted by DodgerIrish

Platypus Venn is a great band name.

Spoiler:

04-15-2019 , 09:41 AM

#1754

Trolly McTrollson

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 36,721

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

I've posted about it before but emu is gross. Kangaroo is nice. Crocodile is like a chewier chicken, not good, not bad really.

What about wombat?

04-15-2019 , 09:44 AM

#1755

TrollyWantACracker

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 4,184

What about Wombat? is a great sitcom name.

04-15-2019 , 09:53 AM

#1756

ChrisV

Carpal \'Tunnel

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

What about wombat?

We've definitely had this conversation. Wombats are protected, but wombat stew was common among early settlers. They're a fatty animal, so it's a bit like stewing chuck steak. The early settlers en masse switched to rabbit stew after rabbits were introduced, and rabbit meat isn't that great, so I imagine wombat must suck.

04-15-2019 , 10:00 AM

#1757

microbet

Solar Powered

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 56,481

Quote:

Originally Posted by StimAbuser

Yeah the distance is just impossible to truly understand. I think its the obvioud answer to the fermi paradox. Space is just too vast that no matter how advanced an extraterrestrial civilization is, it simply cannot overcome the insane distances of space. Like even if they knew of our presence it could take them millions of years to reach us.

You'd need to be able to fold space time or something and that might just not be possible.

I used to think it was probably the distance that explains the paradox. I think Trump pretty much proves "intelligence" beyond a certain point is an evolutionary disaster.

04-15-2019 , 10:01 AM

#1758

Trolly McTrollson

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

It seems that the British colonists only knew how to make stews. If they had some Italians with them maybe they could have tried wombat lasagna.

04-15-2019 , 10:21 AM

#1759

ChrisV

Carpal \'Tunnel

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The Fermi paradox is just mashing a bunch of random numbers together and getting an incredibly random result. If you went to a scientist 100 years ago and said yo, your body is inhabited by a number of bacteria, how many bacteria in total do you think there are in your body, what kind of answers do you think you would get? Because the current best estimate is 39 trillion. We simply have no idea what the correct answers are for a whole bunch of the terms in the equation.

04-15-2019 , 11:51 AM

#1760

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

I used to think it was probably the distance that explains the paradox. I think Trump pretty much proves "intelligence" beyond a certain point is an evolutionary disaster.

Maybe if herbivores with a strong herding instinct evolve intelligence - instead of omnivores with a fierce territorial/tribal instinct - things turn out different.

04-15-2019 , 11:56 AM

#1761

iron81

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More bacteria than human cells? gtfo

04-15-2019 , 11:59 AM

#1762

SenorKeeed

mew mew mew

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 37,478

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Maybe if herbivores with a strong herding instinct evolve intelligence - instead of omnivores with a fierce territorial/tribal instinct - things turn out different.

That was an interesting aspect of Ringworld by Larry Niven. Also Footfall by Niven and Pournelle.

04-15-2019 , 12:04 PM

#1763

MrWookie

Don't Call Me Meredith

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 94,159

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Maybe if herbivores with a strong herding instinct evolve intelligence - instead of omnivores with a fierce territorial/tribal instinct - things turn out different.

I would hypothesize that there isn't going to be the same selective pressure in herding herbivores to evolve intelligence as there isn't as much competitive pressure.

04-15-2019 , 12:14 PM

#1764

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Maybe not on earth - but on another planet conditions could be very different in ways we can't imagine.

Elephants are pretty smart and have something like an opposable thumb in their trunks.

Cuttlefish are smart but maybe too competitive to ever evolve primate-level intelligence. Octopuses maybe are too much of loners. Who knows.

04-15-2019 , 12:27 PM

#1765

jalfrezi

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Quote:

Originally Posted by chezlaw

Not my favorite band by a very long way but I assume you're continuing your obsession with me so ... There's many rumours about who Mary was based on but I suspect it was reminiscing partly about someone he knew when he was a boy.

My main reason for replying - I don't to get to say this very often - I doubt he will tell me but if you like I could ask him next time I see him.

Disinterested and unimpressed.

Live Aid was disgusting. Did you give him yer ****in' money?

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04-15-2019 , 12:31 PM

#1766

jalfrezi

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Quote:

I hear the click-clack of your feet on the stairs
I know you're no scared-eyed honey
There'll be a feast if you just come upstairs

But it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime

I can see that you're fifteen years old
No I don't want your I.D
And I can see that you're so far from home

But it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
Oh yeah, don't you scratch like that
Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
I bet, bet your mama don't know you scream like that
I bet your mother don't know you can spit like that

In some live versions they reduced her age to thirteen.

04-15-2019 , 01:22 PM

#1767

Trolly McTrollson

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Everything sucks in 2019.

04-15-2019 , 01:25 PM

#1768

SenorKeeed

mew mew mew

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 37,478

Why can't our Notre Dame catch on fire?

04-15-2019 , 01:27 PM

#1769

MrWookie

Don't Call Me Meredith

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 94,159

Quote:

Originally Posted by iron81

More bacteria than human cells? gtfo

Yeah, we have more bacterial than human cells. It helps that bacteria are a lot smaller

04-15-2019 , 01:35 PM

#1770

Trolly McTrollson

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Jeez, this fire looks bad.

04-15-2019 , 01:36 PM

#1771

master3004

Revisionist Historian

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 56,419

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Jeez, this fire looks bad.

Yeah, even if they succesfully put it out the damage is going to be extensive

04-15-2019 , 01:41 PM

#1772

00cooler00

old hand

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,810

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Dolphins obv.

04-15-2019 , 03:13 PM

#1773

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

https://apnews.com/73404d09773740f699d4b92933abec50

Among the most celebrated artworks inside are its three stained-glass rose windows, placed high up on the west, north and south faces of the cathedral. Its priceless treasures also include a Catholic relic, the crown of thorns, which is only occasionally displayed, including on Fridays during Lent.

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