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Wrath of the Bitch King
May 11, 2005

Research confirms that black is a color like silver is a color, and that beyond black is clarity.
thanks for the links, homie

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angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?

ADINSX posted:

I didn't watch planet of the apes but the premise seems kinda shaky. We're on the verge of wiping out gorillas just from poaching, so I'm curious how they turn that around to taking over the planet

a new strain of dog syphilis kills all the dogs and cats so naturally the only replacement for pets is chimps and gorillas

when we notice how strong and cool they are we gentically modify them to be slightly more human so they can grip stuff and do manual labor because it's okay to mistreat minorities, which apes now are

and then the distant descendants of the modifed apes climb in a time machine and bring back an evolved baby chimp which will cause our helper apes to eventually evolve into the masters of the earth so the governments of earth naturally decide to exterminate all apes everywhere but a vile traitor hides the baby chimp in a travelling circus and by the way the helper apes easily kill all the humans with like broomsticks and stuff

oh and back to the future a cult detonates a super atomic bomb that sterilizes the earth so the entire story was pointless

angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?
oh, and in the alternate timeline marky mark and the funky bunch drop a space chimp into a wormhole and this causes aperaham lincoln

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

don't forget the alternate alternate timeline where the chimps are accidentally engineered into intelligence by testing anti-alzheimers drugs on them and humans are simultaneously killed by a plague, leaving apes to inherit the earth

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





would apes elect Trump?

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

mike12345 posted:

would apes elect Trump?

obviously, yes.

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Carmack still works at Oculus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8aU4MYDsOQ

Syncopated
Oct 21, 2010

mike12345 posted:

I think I read that too, by that Israeli anthropologist, the idea that wheat just used us to propagate itself

the book is called the selfish cob

Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003

Syncopated posted:

the book is called the selfish cob

please don't post my sex moves

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
if you want to be that reductive about it I guess humans only exist to puzzle out the meaning of life or some such

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

Annual Gift Panda posted:

if you want to be that reductive about it I guess humans only exist to puzzle out the meaning of life or some such

The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make this planet and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are star-stuff. We are the Universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out.

- Carl Sagan

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
what's scented meat?

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

NoneMoreNegative posted:

The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make this planet and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are star-stuff. We are the Universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out.

- Carl Sagan

TIL water, complex carbohydrates, DNA are all formed inside stars

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

a primatologist criticized the planet of the apes movies based on the fact that gorillas and chimps actually don't have proper musculoskeletal structure to accurately throw projectile weapons. despite its immense strength a chimp can't really throw a baseball or hunt from long distance with a spear. that's a physical adaptation humans got when we stood fully erect.

humans are better even at poop throwing, owned

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

meat that thinks

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

NoneMoreNegative posted:

The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make this planet and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are star-stuff. We are the Universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out.

- Carl Sagan

I was going more of a douglas adams direction but that's good too

Clockwerk
Apr 6, 2005


Bloody posted:

meat that thinks

you're asking me to believe in sentient meat?

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

NoneMoreNegative posted:

The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make this planet and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are star-stuff. We are the Universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out.

- Butthead Astronomer

crusader_complex
Jun 4, 2012

Syncopated posted:

the book is called the selfish cob

"im not owned! im not owned!" said ancient humans as they became symbiotic

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.
wheat legit more interesting than vr

Syncopated
Oct 21, 2010

crusader_complex posted:

"im not owned! im not owned!" said ancient humans as they became symbiotic

lol

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

humans have plenty of biological advantages over other species, not just tech or even just smarts.

gorillas and chimps didn't spread out of the jungles and populate the entire planet, that only started when we gave up massive upper body strength and grip suited for tree climbing, in exchange for more efficient long distance travel and far superior physical endurance that comes with upright posture and metabolic adaptations. if you've seen the youtub on traditional african endurance hunters you know this, we can literally just track big prey for dozens and dozens of miles until it is too exhausted to continue and just collapses.

a primatologist criticized the planet of the apes movies based on the fact that gorillas and chimps actually don't have proper musculoskeletal structure to accurately throw projectile weapons. despite its immense strength a chimp can't really throw a baseball or hunt from long distance with a spear. that's a physical adaptation humans got when we stood fully erect.

ive also heard that humans are particularly good at healing from major injuries compared to other large mammals that often just go into shock and die

extremely high con, dex, and int, 0 in everything else

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Sagebrush posted:

don't forget the alternate alternate timeline where the chimps are accidentally engineered into intelligence by testing anti-alzheimers drugs on them and humans are simultaneously killed by a plague, leaving apes to inherit the earth

not believable enough as a movie storyline, 4/10

gooby pls
May 18, 2012



atomicthumbs posted:

extremely high corn...

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

crusader_complex posted:

"im not owned! im not owned!" said ancient humans as they became symbiotic

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

atomicthumbs posted:

extremely high con, dex, and int, 0 in everything else

not sure about that int score

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Fallen Hamprince posted:

not sure about that int score

humans are smart but also dumb as hell, so 0 wis

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
unlike other animals, humans can leverage the intelligence of the smartest ones to make clothing and swords and cellphones and carry the rest of the dumbass species out of their caves and into heated apartments.

Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003
unlike other animals the world would be objectively better off without us.

The Leck
Feb 27, 2001

Dongslayer. posted:

wheat legit more interesting than vr
please move this derail to the jeez wheat thread

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angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

unlike other animals the world would be objectively better off without us.

the only thing life exists to do is colonize every available niche, regardless of the consequences to competing species and even the environment itself

honey badgers and squirrels aren't going to build space rockets and populate the lifeless galaxy but if the democrats and crybaby environmentalists stop being so obstructionist president trump will declare 2017 to be universal century year 1, name newt gingrich secretary of the moon, and build the most luxurious space colonies and conquer space big league

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