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#394244
cyborgtroy
No, wait, I know what she's talking about...
However, no matter how often you play Ace Combat, the Arkbird is never a real biological bird. It is a spaceship.
1/30/2008 1:24:01 AM
#394245
Omni Noodle
If you believe in sky fairies, it doesn't take a big leap of idiocy to believe in space birds.
1/30/2008 1:31:52 AM
#394246
nintendofreakgcn
I think The Welder's Wife thinks that Meta-Ridley from Metroid Prime is a bird (to heck with flying on the edge of space, he could fly through space!). I don't even know where to begin correcting that viewpoint.
1/30/2008 1:33:10 AM
#394249
John
There are bar-headed geese that can fly over the Himalayas. They have evolved a modified hemoglobin that has mutated to allow a higher affinity for oxygen than we earth-bound vertebrates have. Our (postpartum) hemoglobin is carefully balanced for our normal oxygen level between the ability to grab oxygen in our lungs and release it again into our tissue (fetal hemoglobin has much more affinity for oxygen because it has to "steal" it from the mother's hemoglobin).
The mutation was identified and inserted into the DNA sequence for human hemoglobin, which in turn was inserted into e. coli in order to generate the modified human hemoglobin. The resultant human hemoglobin was found to have a much higher affinity for oxygen. Thus, the bar-headed goose is yet another piece of evidence for evolution.
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1/30/2008 1:34:24 AM
#394255
HeathenAngel
*blink*
1/30/2008 1:48:00 AM
#394261
Øyvind
John: Nice!
1/30/2008 1:59:13 AM
#394268
Øyvind
The birds define where the face of the 2-heavens starts because some birds can’t fly.
Yes, I think this chick needs a dose of Trilby. Who wants to hold the rifle and teddy bear?
1/30/2008 2:07:10 AM
#394272
Sideshow Bob
Wait what the hell are you...
Oh. Right. CSE. Never mind, it's business as usual.
1/30/2008 2:14:03 AM
#394285
Jake Steel
what the hell are you talking about?
1/30/2008 2:42:03 AM
#394287
Osiris
@John: And a possible application for transhuman engineering assuming science ever gets to that point before the fundies drag us back into the Stone Age with them.
1/30/2008 2:52:45 AM
#394326
JustinGG
Are you retarded?
1/30/2008 4:09:04 AM
#394327
Euclid
where the face of the 2-heavens starts
Nod and smile, everyone, our favorite fundie new-age space-aliens-built-the-pyramids crystal-healing tinfoil-hat non-sequitur dinosaurs-are-actually-invisible-dragons-mentioned-in-the-book-of-cyril nutjob is baaaaack!
1/30/2008 4:10:22 AM
#394336
Septic Sceptic
The birds define where the face of the 2-heavens starts because some birds can’t fly.
Without a thought for my own mental stability, I tried thinking this part through. As I read it, she's saying that flightless birds gather where one heaven ends, and another begins.
Behold the penguins! Sacred guardians of the gate to the Second Heaven!
And thus was the world's most fucked-up fantasy novel written...
1/30/2008 4:24:15 AM
#394346
TrickTrack
Not as bad as it could have been...
1/30/2008 4:45:38 AM
#394361
Papabear
Even if for just a moment I were to agree that God even exists, what would give you the slightest idea of what God would define as outer space?
No bird does now nor ever has flown anywhere near what reasonable people define as outer space, short of those that may have been taken in man-made vehicles, that is.
1/30/2008 5:09:01 AM
#394362
Reverend Davidius
Is it possible to put to words how stupid this person is?
1/30/2008 5:10:54 AM
#394412
Alina
WTF? Award 2nded.
1/30/2008 6:31:44 AM
#394416
Brian X
This has never happened. In fact I doubt there's been a bird even above the Himalaya treeline.
1/30/2008 6:41:09 AM
#394423
Michael
Anonymous Asshole takes it for the gold! Priceless!
1/30/2008 6:57:33 AM
#394424
Zoony The Lazoon
Just when you think that humanity has reached the nadir of wilful asinine stupidity..... along comes The Welders Wife.
1/30/2008 6:58:05 AM
#394426
Michael
@Cyborg, I never could get beyond a certain level in that game. I only met the Arkbird once....
1/30/2008 7:02:26 AM
#394461
Wurdulac
@Septic Sceptic:
Expanding on your thought, perhaps she's attempting to reconcile her black-and-white "fundyvision" with reality? In this case, the b&w "All birds can fly" with the reality that some can't, resulting in the strange assertion that all birds can in fact fly, it's simply that the ones that can't fly merely fly in a different "heaven"?
Then again, maybe she's just got an inoperable brain tumor that makes her say weird shit. I dunno.
1/30/2008 8:50:36 AM
#394467
Psittacosis
I do feel sorry for the Welder.
1/30/2008 9:23:15 AM
#394468
Mr Smith
Apparently at that time there were some birds that could fly on the edge of what God defines as outer space.
What does god define as outer space? Chapter and verse please :)
1/30/2008 9:27:49 AM
#394510
redfergus
@Shibori, Solomon Grundy
In about 1967 my girlfriend and I, and a bunch of young American tourists in St James's Park, watched as a Pelican swam over to a family of geese and promptly gobbled up three baby goslings. Two of the young Americans, outraged, leapt into the lake but were too young so save the little birds. I even wrote to the London Evening Standard about it. The park authorities said the Pelicans were well-fed and wouldn't do such a thing, but they did.
Which proves nothing, except that creatures prey off other creatures. Which fits in, I suppose, with the concept of evolution.
1/30/2008 11:40:06 AM
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