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Quote# 2701

[Using an artists painting as evidence that gravity changed somehow, some way.]

The image above, from A. D. Stolyar's "Origins of Representational Art" clearly shows pliestocene artwork involving a mammoth elephant stretched out in full gallop.

Another anomaly involving gravity; that could not happen today

Medved, Free Conservatives 27 Comments [8/21/2005 12:00:00 AM]
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#861
Khaine

Artistic expression as scientific proof.
Maybe we can start using legend and myth as historical fact. Oh wait, there are those pushing for that.

8/22/2005 7:35:50 AM

#896
Jimmy_Higgins

No one can be that stupid.

8/24/2005 5:10:55 PM

#905
Crosis

If only that were true, Jimmy ...

8/24/2005 8:51:13 PM

#914
Khaine

I've never lost a bet yet that was based on how stupid some people can be.

8/25/2005 6:51:10 AM

#920
Ratman

Wow, that's so stupid it hurts.

8/25/2005 8:54:30 PM

#15514
Zipperback

If fundies are stilla round in a few centuries I wonder how they would interpret the works of Magritte or Dali.

2/15/2006 1:15:16 PM

#15519
Julian


Hey that's about as stupid as trying to use Rennaisance art to prove Jesus was white.

They should still be able to pick the masturbation in Dali's work, but the melting clocks might make them think it was historical and from Sodom or something.

2/15/2006 2:06:56 PM

#15521
Julian


Aw maaaan - next thing we know Mr Science here's going to prove Dumbo could fly!

2/15/2006 2:09:31 PM

#15523
Julian


Hey don't forget this fantastic 'primitive' source only predates their own 'literal' one by a few measley centuries....

2/15/2006 2:10:55 PM

#114802
Adrian

Of course there is no way we can tell if that's true seeing as how mammoths are somthing of an exticnt species.

12/6/2006 1:14:27 AM

#346788
cyborgtroy

Yes, these days, things can't stretch out and jump, not while they're running, not while they're standing.

Wait, how am I supposed to walk?

11/28/2007 4:25:41 PM

#346995
maxedout

If you wanted something to "prove" gravitational anomalies you should have picked M.C. Escher.

11/28/2007 9:05:04 PM

#347033
Alena

...

WHAT?

11/28/2007 10:07:57 PM

#347061
SSJPunk

You wouldn't believe how different the structure of humans were in the days of Pablo Picasso!

11/28/2007 11:01:16 PM

#347116
Jon

The words "artistic interpretation" mean absolutely nothing to your kind, do they?

11/29/2007 1:42:12 AM

#387234
cyborgtroy

Modern animals cannot gallop.

1/21/2008 9:11:47 PM

#564704
Fernando

Yeah. Aslo men were stick men! With spears! It was like a xkcd comic.

6/29/2008 9:52:23 AM

#564778
Grigadil

@ maxedout,

MC Escher. Definitely.

6/29/2008 12:13:51 PM

#564957
Rawley

You'd go into a full gallop if guys with spears were trying to kill you.

Plus, weren't mammoths around before 6000BC? So eitherway, the argument is pointless, mammoth painting was put there by satan.

6/29/2008 3:14:44 PM

#1327321
thatoneguy

so yesterday I saw a picture of a penguin with a sword, so obviously penguins used to be samurai, but today they can't. See I can do it too.

8/30/2011 11:16:07 AM

#1421696
Quantum Mechanic

People this fucking stupid won't be alive long.

7/9/2012 6:52:13 PM

#1421724


mammoths were more muscular and fit in those days. Herds of them galloped across the tundra trumpeting as they went.


7/9/2012 8:36:56 PM

#1423069
Canadiest

A misunderstanding of what a rendering is trying to convey, "representational". Mammoths would have a quick walking gait like Elephants, they wouldn't run like dogs or horses who can be entirely off the ground for awhile HOWEVER they were big and would be faster then humans due to their stride. A fast walking mamoth would look just like a slow walking one in a still picture.

They were conveying the illusion of speed, that's all.

7/12/2012 2:53:55 PM

#1423075
Lady Evil

Before the invention of still photography, people drew and painted running horses all wrong.

What's your point, Medved?

7/12/2012 3:28:56 PM

#1423078
Filin De Blanc

Perhaps the artist drew it wrong.

I am the world's greatest detective.

7/12/2012 4:21:11 PM
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