Let's Get Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh!
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35 Amazing Science Fair Projects. Electricity vs. Cat. Will There Be Minorities in Heaven? Let's Get Hiiiiiiiiiigh. Strange science fair projects, (Buzzfeed, via Andrew Sullivan. Just goofy and viral, but I cracked up more than once.)
This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really going over well. Probably better to stick with primary sources instead of thinly/poorly attributed second hand stuff in this sort of case, at any rate. -- cortex
Pretty funny... to my untrained eye, the following look like they have been photoshopped some:
8. Let's Get Hiiiiiiigh!
12. Filariasis
13. Teats
32. Electricity vs. Cat
posted by Saxon Kane at 10:18 AM on November 15, 2009
8. Let's Get Hiiiiiiigh!
12. Filariasis
13. Teats
32. Electricity vs. Cat
posted by Saxon Kane at 10:18 AM on November 15, 2009
This is hilarious/terrifying.
and the Economist is telling us the young people will save the world...ahem...ahem if they can't save the world, at least they can all get stoned with their ideal pancreases and moon babies, which is almost as good.
posted by Lutoslawski at 10:18 AM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
and the Economist is telling us the young people will save the world...ahem...ahem if they can't save the world, at least they can all get stoned with their ideal pancreases and moon babies, which is almost as good.
posted by Lutoslawski at 10:18 AM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
This looks shopped, I can tell by some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time
posted by twistofrhyme at 10:29 AM on November 15, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by twistofrhyme at 10:29 AM on November 15, 2009 [2 favorites]
That sphincter one looks pretty shopped to me. It's a volcano.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:29 AM on November 15, 2009
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:29 AM on November 15, 2009
This looks shopped, I can tell by some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time
Fark is two doors down on the left. (He said to the poster and the commenter.)
posted by dortmunder at 10:32 AM on November 15, 2009
Fark is two doors down on the left. (He said to the poster and the commenter.)
posted by dortmunder at 10:32 AM on November 15, 2009
The next thread is just one door down.
posted by fourcheesemac at 10:35 AM on November 15, 2009
posted by fourcheesemac at 10:35 AM on November 15, 2009
I suspect most of these are photoshopped. Some of them are still pretty amusing, though, fake or not.
posted by EarBucket at 10:37 AM on November 15, 2009
posted by EarBucket at 10:37 AM on November 15, 2009
Actually, the "Will There Be Minorities in Heaven?" question is less stupid than it sounds.
To put the question in a different context, what are the demographics of Phillip Jose Farmer's Riverworld? If you resurrected everyone who ever lived (how far back you go depending on your definition of "everyone"), you would expect the results to skew towards the present (because there are more people alive today than, say, 10,000 years ago), but what would be the ethnic/racial breakdown of this population? Can one even meaningfully define the ethnicity or race of people of the distant past?
I'd give the kid an award just for asking the question.
posted by SPrintF at 10:40 AM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
To put the question in a different context, what are the demographics of Phillip Jose Farmer's Riverworld? If you resurrected everyone who ever lived (how far back you go depending on your definition of "everyone"), you would expect the results to skew towards the present (because there are more people alive today than, say, 10,000 years ago), but what would be the ethnic/racial breakdown of this population? Can one even meaningfully define the ethnicity or race of people of the distant past?
I'd give the kid an award just for asking the question.
posted by SPrintF at 10:40 AM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
"Are There Minorities in Heaven" is actually a good question.
posted by klanawa at 10:42 AM on November 15, 2009
posted by klanawa at 10:42 AM on November 15, 2009
I really dislike how this is being passed as real when so many were stolen from SomethingAwful. I wish they'd post the real ones separately...
posted by LSK at 10:49 AM on November 15, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by LSK at 10:49 AM on November 15, 2009 [2 favorites]
Did Sully fall for this?
posted by Sidhedevil at 11:42 AM on November 15, 2009
posted by Sidhedevil at 11:42 AM on November 15, 2009
So in fact, under some reasonable definitions of "person" there are more people alive now than have ever died. And if you go by self-identification — which is really the only consistent way to assign races to people, since it's not like there's any independent fact of the matter — then it's relevant that the racial or ethnic categories recognized in the past were much smaller than the ones we tend to recognize today. The Greeks, for instance, recognized a good half-dozen ethnicities among themselves within the Peloponnese and surrounding islands. For that matter, there are many parts of the modern world that recognize narrower racial or ethnic distinctions than the ones American usage tends to impose.
All of which means that if you took an open-ended enough census to do the place justice, in a Heaven inclusive enough to be worthy of the name, you'd most likely come out with either a white or a Han Chinese "majority" — or perhaps "plurality" would be a better way to put it — followed by a very long tail full of Ghegs and Nivkhs and Inuit and on back through the Ionians and Hittites until the dawn of humanity, whateverthehell that means.
posted by nebulawindphone at 12:04 PM on November 15, 2009
All of which means that if you took an open-ended enough census to do the place justice, in a Heaven inclusive enough to be worthy of the name, you'd most likely come out with either a white or a Han Chinese "majority" — or perhaps "plurality" would be a better way to put it — followed by a very long tail full of Ghegs and Nivkhs and Inuit and on back through the Ionians and Hittites until the dawn of humanity, whateverthehell that means.
posted by nebulawindphone at 12:04 PM on November 15, 2009
Too bad some of these were pilfered, perhaps they all were. At the very least they could have provided some attribution.
posted by caddis at 12:05 PM on November 15, 2009
posted by caddis at 12:05 PM on November 15, 2009
These infantile photoshopped ringers are not real, and show that the troll that posted them has neither brains, compassion, nor a sense of humor. Grow up, get out of the toilet, and meet some real people.
posted by SLC Mom at 12:15 PM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by SLC Mom at 12:15 PM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
So in fact, under some reasonable definitions of "person" there are more people alive now than have ever died.
This is a pretty common misconception, but it's actually not true.
posted by EarBucket at 12:17 PM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
This is a pretty common misconception, but it's actually not true.
posted by EarBucket at 12:17 PM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
in a Heaven inclusive enough to be worthy of the name, you'd most likely come out with either a white or a Han Chinese "majority"
White?
Really? How do you figure that?
Let's say that 108 billion people have been born, assuming a fairly arbitrary definition of "people" starting at 50,000 BCE. 45 billion of those people were born before 1 CE, and the population that would generally be defined as "white" was tiny before that compared to the populations of Africa, East and South Asia, and the Middle East.
posted by Sidhedevil at 12:17 PM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
White?
Really? How do you figure that?
Let's say that 108 billion people have been born, assuming a fairly arbitrary definition of "people" starting at 50,000 BCE. 45 billion of those people were born before 1 CE, and the population that would generally be defined as "white" was tiny before that compared to the populations of Africa, East and South Asia, and the Middle East.
posted by Sidhedevil at 12:17 PM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
nebulawindphone: So in fact, under some reasonable definitions of "person" there are more people alive now than have ever died
The Straight Dope tackled this question in a memorable column (well I remembered it, so at least it was memorable to me). Estimates vary from 70-110 billion for the number of humans that have ever lived.
posted by Kattullus at 12:18 PM on November 15, 2009
The Straight Dope tackled this question in a memorable column (well I remembered it, so at least it was memorable to me). Estimates vary from 70-110 billion for the number of humans that have ever lived.
posted by Kattullus at 12:18 PM on November 15, 2009
EarBucket pointed out the much larger hole in nebulawindfarm's argument, and cited the exact article on which my own off-the-cuff assumptions were based.
posted by Sidhedevil at 12:18 PM on November 15, 2009
posted by Sidhedevil at 12:18 PM on November 15, 2009
Surely some of these are not total fakes, right?
posted by Saxon Kane at 12:26 PM on November 15, 2009
posted by Saxon Kane at 12:26 PM on November 15, 2009
These infantile photoshopped ringers are not real, and show that the troll that posted them has neither brains, compassion, nor a sense of humor. Grow up, get out of the toilet, and meet some real people.
Wow. You must be an absolute blast at parties.
dudes like half of these are photoshopped and like while this may technically not be a double post this whole meme is like older than like dancing hamsters or comic sans or something
also a few days ago i turned on the end of BREAKIN' and HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS THE CLOSING CREDITS ARE ALL IN COMIC SANS I WAS LIKE NUH UH
posted by hifiparasol at 12:39 PM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
Wow. You must be an absolute blast at parties.
dudes like half of these are photoshopped and like while this may technically not be a double post this whole meme is like older than like dancing hamsters or comic sans or something
also a few days ago i turned on the end of BREAKIN' and HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS THE CLOSING CREDITS ARE ALL IN COMIC SANS I WAS LIKE NUH UH
posted by hifiparasol at 12:39 PM on November 15, 2009 [1 favorite]
I see there's a future MeFite in there, overthinking a plate of juicy beans.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 12:40 PM on November 15, 2009
posted by grapefruitmoon at 12:40 PM on November 15, 2009
These infantile photoshopped ringers are not real, and show that the troll that posted them has neither brains, compassion, nor a sense of humor. Grow up, get out of the toilet, and meet some real people.
wow lady.
been a while, huh?
posted by Lutoslawski at 1:02 PM on November 15, 2009
wow lady.
been a while, huh?
posted by Lutoslawski at 1:02 PM on November 15, 2009
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