OFF TOPIC THREAD: Where derailing the thread is impossible!

MoffD · Post by **MoffD** » Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:47

lick if you crime very time.

ScarletFlame · Post by **ScarletFlame** » Tue Dec 06, 2016 0:48

Remember, licking door knobs is illegal on other planets.

nanomekia · Post by **nanomekia** » Tue Dec 06, 2016 1:15

*puts tongue back in mouth*

lemm · Post by **lemm** » Tue Dec 06, 2016 1:31

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... tilts.html

Just when you thought science couldn't get any more useless, someone goes and does this.

ScarletFlame · Post by **ScarletFlame** » Tue Dec 06, 2016 1:38

This procedure, Wolf said, is not as cruel as it sounds, because ants do not experience pain

oh....

Post by **Keening_Product** » Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:15

"at least not in a sense even remotely comparable to what we mean by that term."

There's something quite sinister about that line.

MoffD · Post by **MoffD** » Thu Dec 08, 2016 16:40

Water, water, what hast thou donst?

Bless you ants; blants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaI6kBVyu00

Website · Post by **Nisaba** » Thu Dec 08, 2016 21:55

beautiful!
but one question remains: is Sulphur attracted to magnets?

Post by **Levellass** » Sun Dec 11, 2016 7:38

Only good looking ones.

lemm wrote:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... tilts.html

Just when you thought science couldn't get any more useless, someone goes and does this.

I am ashamed for you Lemm, you yourself should know better than to refer to such science as useless.

Keening_Product wrote:
"at least not in a sense even remotely comparable to what we mean by that term."
There's something quite sinister about that line.

On the one hand yes, there's a dark road to take, insisting that human use of 'pain' is somehow special.

On the other hand it's also misleading to think of all species being equal in terms of feeling pain. It may roughly hold for higher animals but especially when yo get to the world of insects it becomes problematic. If we're willing to entertain ants as feeling pain on a level with humans where does that put flyspray or even headlice shampoo?

MoffD · Post by **MoffD** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 14:02

Levellass wrote: I am ashamed for you Lemm, you yourself should know better than to refer to such science as useless.

I vote we attach little goggles and caps to Ducks and see if they become avian aviators.
Alternatively we can put them in mini RC carts and turn it into some bizarre real life wacky wheels.

Roobar · Post by **Roobar** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 21:59

Today is an important day to me.

nanomekia · Post by **nanomekia** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 23:30

Roobar wrote:Today is an important day to me.

Congratulations, if it is a good important. Condolences if it is not.

Nospike · Post by **Nospike** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 16:02

I've killed three birds with one stone by managing to learn a bit of templates and sorting algorithms and recursion at once, thus I've killed three birds with one stone by managing to learn a bit of templates and sorting algorithms and recursion at once, thus I've...
(bad joke, sorry)

Rarely do I feel this happy while doing C++. I think recursion is fun, at least until something goes horribly wrong later on. Now if only I could write some actually useful software...

nanomekia · Post by **nanomekia** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 22:05

To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion,

(repeat ad nauseum)

GalaxyEyesPhotonDragon · Post by **GalaxyEyesPhotonDragon** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 3:55

Bananaboat.

Discuss this.

(Also... I RISE AGAIN!! I hate when my life gets uncontrollably busy and hectic and chaotic and stressful and... not fun.)