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Offline iamzack

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
Breast augmentation gets bigger boobs, which increase a female's attractiveness to the males of her species, increasing her chances of reproduction and passing on her genes.

That ultimate cause is actually divorced from the proximate cause. You'd need to present data suggesting that people who have breast augmentation have more kids.
:wtf:
I make a semi-serious statement about why women would choose to get breast implants (the first part about attracting males was serious, second part about kids wasn't), and you go and pull something like this?  Seriously, what the hell is up with you?

Making a girl have bigger tits is less useful than bringing a woolly mammoth back from the dead.
WE ARE HARD LIGHT PRODUCTIONS. YOU WILL LOWER YOUR FIREWALLS AND SURRENDER YOUR KEYBOARDS. WE WILL ADD YOUR INTELLECTUAL AND VERNACULAR DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR FORUMS WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

 
Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
No it isn't.  If my gender derives sensual pleasure from handling woolly mammoths something is wrong.  I suppose we could always go and hunt them, but why bring a species back from the dead just so it can be hunted down as a means for men to prove their dominance?  No wait, we actually do need to bring them back so we can hunt them down and make trophies of their tusks to prove our dominance.
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems

 

Offline iamzack

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
Are you saying men can't get it up unless they see a chick with huge tits? Because that's the only thing that would make huge tits more useful than a woolly mammoth.
WE ARE HARD LIGHT PRODUCTIONS. YOU WILL LOWER YOUR FIREWALLS AND SURRENDER YOUR KEYBOARDS. WE WILL ADD YOUR INTELLECTUAL AND VERNACULAR DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR FORUMS WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

 
Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
I'm saying a nice-looking pair of tits can help men get it up, but they aren't always necessary.
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems

 

Offline iamzack

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
They're only -necessary- in a small number of dysfunctional men who we don't need reproducing anyway. Therefore, breast augmentation = less useful than woolly mammoths.
WE ARE HARD LIGHT PRODUCTIONS. YOU WILL LOWER YOUR FIREWALLS AND SURRENDER YOUR KEYBOARDS. WE WILL ADD YOUR INTELLECTUAL AND VERNACULAR DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR FORUMS WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
Breast augmentation gets bigger boobs, which increase a female's attractiveness to the males of her species, increasing her chances of reproduction and passing on her genes.

That ultimate cause is actually divorced from the proximate cause. You'd need to present data suggesting that people who have breast augmentation have more kids.
:wtf:
I make a semi-serious statement about why women would choose to get breast implants (the first part about attracting males was serious, second part about kids wasn't), and you go and pull something like this?  Seriously, what the hell is up with you?

Because this is an actual topic in evolutionary psychology, and one that's commonly misunderstood.

I'm correcting the common misunderstanding.

In any case, women's assessment of their own bodies is badly divorced from men's, largely due to the interference of cultural messages. Women generally believe that men want larger breasts and thinner waists than they actually do.

You should be careful about ascribing ultimate cause motivations to traits that are explained by proximate causes. The original reason breasts became attractive is because they signaled reproductive fitness, but that is only an ultimate cause; it generated proximate causes which are now sufficient on their own.

 

Offline Qent

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
No it isn't.  If my gender derives sensual pleasure from handling woolly mammoths something is wrong.  I suppose we could always go and hunt them, but why bring a species back from the dead just so it can be hunted down as a means for men to prove their dominance?  No wait, we actually do need to bring them back so we can hunt them down and make trophies of their tusks to prove our dominance.
A bunch of people including iamzack will pay money to see a real live woolly mammoth. That in itself makes them useful. Then there's biodiversity. Maybe what Liberator said is right and conditions are still unfavorable for woolly mammoths, but it would be nice to have that option.

  

Offline Sushi

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
Obviously, the best solution is to bring back woolly mammoths...then augment their breasts. (Udders? Teats? Not sure what it would be for a mammoth).

 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
What do improvements in breast augmentation surgery accomplish?

**** doesn't have to be useful. People just have to want it.

But who wants to bring back a wooly mammoth?

I'd like to see a woolly mammoth. That would be ****ing awesome.


Screw that, I want dinosaurs damnit! :p
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Mongoose

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
Didn't a certain movie teach you anything? :p

 

Offline iamzack

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
raptors don't need us to bring them back from the dead. they are in charge of north korea already.
WE ARE HARD LIGHT PRODUCTIONS. YOU WILL LOWER YOUR FIREWALLS AND SURRENDER YOUR KEYBOARDS. WE WILL ADD YOUR INTELLECTUAL AND VERNACULAR DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR FORUMS WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
Didn't a certain movie teach you anything? :p

Nope, not at all.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
I'm reconsidering my previous opposition towards bringing back woolly mammoths.  No mammoths means no Mammoth Tanks.
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems

 

Offline BloodEagle

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
Topic: Creation of synthetic cells, and their applications.

Discusser's Points:
  • Benefits of the tech.
  • Dangers of the tech.

Results of discussion:
  • Trolling at religion/discussion of relation.
  • Dangers of a different tech.
  • Time travel in a fictional(?) work.
  • Possibility for living computer.
  • Humans rape nature. (note: was a joke, it seems)
  • Smartass comment about plantlife.
  • Role of plantlife / complaints about finger-pointing.
  • DNA compiler.
  • Creating Aryans Bettering humans with tech.
  • Dangers of tech.
  • Atomic weapons.
  • Morality in science.
  • Need for police force on tech.
  • Turning tech into a weapon.
  • Atomic weapons.
  • In/compatibility of science with religion.
  • What compatibility is.
  • Obligatory zombie movie reference.
  • More stuff about religion and science that I'm not actually going to read.
  • Kosh calling Battman an ass. (was retaliatory? I kind of stopped paying attention around the zombies)
  • More stuff about compatibility.
  • Someone referencing an abysmal movie that should never have been made.
  • Call for flame-culling.
  • Playing God Jurassic Park bringing dead stuff to life.
  • Breast augmentation.

I can't tell if this is telling of human nature, or not.

 
Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
Considering how that list seems to say humans can't ever agree about anything, I would say it is quite indicative of human nature.
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems

 

Offline Sushi

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
I'm reconsidering my previous opposition towards bringing back woolly mammoths.  No mammoths means no Mammoth Tanks.

 Picture wasn't what I expected. Thanks for the  :lol:

 

Offline iamzack

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
I'm reconsidering my previous opposition towards bringing back woolly mammoths.  No mammoths means no Mammoth Tanks.

 Picture wasn't what I expected. Thanks for the  :lol:

It was exactly what I expected before you said it was unexpected and made me change my expectations.
WE ARE HARD LIGHT PRODUCTIONS. YOU WILL LOWER YOUR FIREWALLS AND SURRENDER YOUR KEYBOARDS. WE WILL ADD YOUR INTELLECTUAL AND VERNACULAR DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR FORUMS WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

 

Offline iamzack

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WE ARE HARD LIGHT PRODUCTIONS. YOU WILL LOWER YOUR FIREWALLS AND SURRENDER YOUR KEYBOARDS. WE WILL ADD YOUR INTELLECTUAL AND VERNACULAR DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR FORUMS WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

 

Offline Shivan Hunter

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
zack: lol

Topic: Creation of synthetic cells, and their applications.

Discusser's Points:
  • Benefits of the tech.
  • Dangers of the tech.

Results of discussion:
  • Trolling at religion/discussion of relation.
  • Dangers of a different tech.
  • Time travel in a fictional(?) work.
  • Possibility for living computer.
  • Humans rape nature. (note: was a joke, it seems)
  • Smartass comment about plantlife.
  • Role of plantlife / complaints about finger-pointing.
  • DNA compiler.
  • Creating Aryans Bettering humans with tech.
  • Dangers of tech.
  • Atomic weapons.
  • Morality in science.
  • Need for police force on tech.
  • Turning tech into a weapon.
  • Atomic weapons.
  • In/compatibility of science with religion.
  • What compatibility is.
  • Obligatory zombie movie reference.
  • More stuff about religion and science that I'm not actually going to read.
  • Kosh calling Battman an ass. (was retaliatory? I kind of stopped paying attention around the zombies)
  • More stuff about compatibility.
  • Someone referencing an abysmal movie that should never have been made.
  • Call for flame-culling.
  • Playing God Jurassic Park bringing dead stuff to life.
  • Breast augmentation.

I can't tell if this is telling of human nature, or not.


This list reminds me of one thing. Which seems to be how most HLP discussions go.

 

Offline Mongoose

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Re: Scientists create synthetic cells....
Hee, I actually know what that is.  Or I did, at any rate.