Life is so surreal

[CarbonBV2]

Originally Posted by Vizier

No, not in the hippie dippie philosophical context, I mean in an evolutionary context.

Think about it, most life as we know it evolved from simple, singled celled organisms that were all pretty much alike in the beginning. A billion years later and we have shit like cacti, shrimp that kill prey with sonic weapons, we had gigantic lizards walking the earth and now we have apes that can talk and make threads on the internet about their existence.

We can't grasp at the amount of time it took for all these species to live and die and fill some ecological niche here on this planet because of our short lifespans, but imagine the process of having something that looked like a tadpole eventually become us AND become every other vertebrate we know.

Discuss.

Oh you mean, like the process of EVOLUTION you fucking moron?

[Blunderstar]

Originally Posted by Vizier

Life, maaan.

I thought you hated wtac.

Is anybody else sick of people hating on chi, and yet then they steal his quotes/personality? (He adds "maaan" to the end of things while making fun of hippies for the folks playing at home.)

[Pancake]

Actually, we were created about 6000 years ago by God.
Read the Bible, sinner.

[Xlite]

Originally Posted by Pancake

Actually, we were created about 6000 years ago by God.
Read the Bible, sinner.

[Vizier]

Originally Posted by CarbonBV2

Oh you mean, like the process of EVOLUTION you fucking moron?

Evolution works in mysterious ways.

Originally Posted by Blunderstar

I thought you hated wtac.

Is anybody else sick of people hating on chi, and yet then they steal his quotes/personality? (He adds "maaan" to the end of things while making fun of hippies for the folks playing at home.)

I didn't realize imitating stupid hippies was invented and used exclusively by your boyfriend Chi. For the record I don't hate him, I just find him obnoxious most of the time, in the same way I find you except your saving grace is making comics. Lol, stealing his "quotes and personality" when you try so hard to be like him or act like him all the time.

Originally Posted by Pancake

Actually, we were created about 6000 years ago by God.
Read the Bible, sinner.

You best be trolling nigger.

[CarbonBV2]

Originally Posted by Vizier

Evolution works in mysterious ways.


I didn't realize imitating stupid hippies was invented and used exclusively by your boyfriend Chi. For the record I don't hate him, I just find him obnoxious most of the time, in the same way I find you except your saving grace is making comics. Lol, stealing his "quotes and personality" when you try so hard to be like him or act like him all the time.



You best be trolling nigger.

Hey guys let me give a really lay definiton of evolution without using the word evolution and then ask everyone to discuss what scientists have already been discussing, haha. Yeah dude, evolution does work in mysterious ways, LOL.

[Vizier]

I think I've given your bitch tits enough attention so off to my ignore list you go, tubby.

[ShutMeUp]

both of you stop acting like morons. CarbonBV2 take the insults to PEOO. Vizier there's no need to post pictures of members here: let me remind you this isn't PEOO or LOL, Internet. stop taking each others bait, or continue it elsewhere.

[Vizier]

It's ok, moooom.

Bump because I licked a toad last night but won a bet. No, it was not the kind that makes you trip balls.

[The Pat-Man]

i accidentally stepped on a toad last night and felt terrible.

[CarbonBV2]

Originally Posted by Vizier

I think I've given your bitch tits enough attention so off to my ignore list you go, tubby.

AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA, ignore me? So tough, the bullfighter is so tough!

Originally Posted by ShutMeUp

both of you stop acting like morons. CarbonBV2 take the insults to PEOO. Vizier there's no need to post pictures of members here: let me remind you this isn't PEOO or LOL, Internet. stop taking each others bait, or continue it elsewhere.

Bwahahahaha, you must be a woman giving credit where credit isn't due!

Originally Posted by Vizier

It's ok, moooom.

Bump because I licked a toad last night but won a bet. No, it was not the kind that makes you trip balls.

This is the bitch following the orders of the moderator, lol.

[JeffreyH]

Know how in early stages of evolution, all you had was colonies of cells? They formed colonies because it maximized their potential for survival, much like humans formed tribes.

Then, certain cells started performing certain jobs, and evolved to excel at that specialization. Say, processing other organic stuff for energy, or being tough to protect the colony from the outside.

At the later stages, we start calling these colonies individual organisms. But that is not exactly true - they are still colonies. Much like a city, or a country, or a society, are still merely colonies of humans, humans are simply colonies of cells.


...And it's all good, but then self-awareness comes in to make the whole thing trippy.

You see, if cells had self-awareness, they would have no idea that we are self-aware and think of ourselves as one organism and don't give a shit about individual cells. A good analogy would be the city being self-aware. While an individual blood cell is just doing it's work, and thinking how good it has it.

[DiStOrTiOn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0515203100.htm

[Obbe]

Athene's Theory of Everything - YouTube

Athene's Theory of Everything - YouTube
Video: click to display

[DiStOrTiOn]

Originally Posted by Vizier

It will be habitable for 500 more million years or so, which is enough time for another sentient species to develop should we suddenly go extinct.

technically there is only a 3 nucleotide difference that separates the complexity of homo sapien brains from that of the other great apes


this mutation could happen relatively quickly in any of them

[DiStOrTiOn]

look at all this fractal shit













it's amazing how life evolved complexity by merely using recursion to optimally exponentiate only a few genes in sum

[iTweaker]

Originally Posted by cellophane

Many people assume that we are the pinnacle of evolution. That all these millenia of change has been just to produce us.

But I think that's a little pretentious. A trillion years from now, some other being will unearth our petrified remains and say "lol, what a fag."

just a quick thought . do any of you think marijuanna will exist 1million years later or even 100million years later? on earth? like how the fuck is the bud gonna look like , I can imagine weed evolving into something else for some reason I see a pokemon evolution thingy.

[Vizier]

Originally Posted by iTweaker

just a quick thought . do any of you think marijuanna will exist 1million years later or even 100million years later? on earth? like how the fuck is the bud gonna look like , I can imagine weed evolving into something else for some reason I see a pokemon evolution thingy.

Fucking stoners. Who knows, maybe humans will drive it to extinction in the near future or something, or with the advancement of genetics we'll create shit like lettuce with ultra potent THC in it.

[moron]

everyone is so mad

lol

[Zombie Food]

First things first, tigers love to swim.

But yeah, watched this episode of into the wormhole with morgan freeman (id go gay for his voice)

There was n episode about like if our universe was consious and i was like blown mind

[Daily]

Originally Posted by Mai'q the liar

First things first, tigers love to swim.

But yeah, watched this episode of into the wormhole with morgan freeman (id go gay for his voice)

There was n episode about like if our universe was consious and i was like blown mind

I watched it as well, it was composed of mostly elementary school level knowledge. lol at it blowing your mind.

I knew you were a fucking retard.

[Blunderstar]

I watched it as well, and I was in awe throughout the entire thing as well. Like, ugh... just the fact that we have more than 9 planets (as in - we only have 9 planets in our solar system, but there's actually more outside of them) is fucking mindblowing. Lol like - THERES FUCKING MORE PLANETS OUTSIDE OF THE ONES WE KNOW - the ones we were taught in school are just a small portion! I didn't understand the rest though hahahahaha but in my defense I was tired. Anyway yeah great show.

EDIT: Also this wasn't on the show but just a fun fact - Pluto is debated whether or not it's actually a planet, so some people think there's only 8 in our solar system.

[Vizier]

As of now scientists consider we only have 8 planets in our solar system. The rest are considered dwarf planets, like Pluto, Eris (and a bunch of other trans-neptunian objects) and Ceres (the largest planetoid in the asteroid belt).

Outside of our solar system there have been hundreds of planets that have been discovered, and a few of these are earthlike or found in what they call "goldilocks zone", which is the habitable orbit around a star; like where Earth is located.

People speculate there might be life outside of earth within our solar system, so life in other systems is very likely. Considering we've discovered all these planets in radius of around less than a 1,000 light years, and the entire galaxy is 100,000 light years, and there are billions of them in the universe...

I think life isn't exactly uncommon out there.

[SHARP]

Originally Posted by Vizier

Outside of our solar system there have been hundreds of planets that have been discovered, and a few of these are earthlike or found in what they call "goldilocks zone", which is the habitable orbit around a star; like where Earth is located.

I saw a documentary a couple o' months ago, about precisely that subject.
Apparently there's loads more places where life could evolve, outside of the previously mentioned zone.
Granted, those lifeforms might not be carbon based, and the heat might not come from a star but from geological friction caused by periodically changes in distance to whatever these moons etc. orbit around, and a few other causes if memory serves, so it seems the "goldilocks zone" theory is somewhat outdated.

Hold on, I'll see if I can dig something up, it's really worth a watch.

EDIT: This isn't the program I watched, but they touch upon some of the same concepts and places...

[thegreatupski]

how is this any more ridiculous or improbable compared to anything else that we can measure or quantify in the 4 dimensional universe that we study. Its all incredibly impossible for any of it to exist - of course its all very beautiful perceived through our biological facilities and consciousness