Comment Re:what about skinny people? (Score 1) 378
I'm not sure what your post is supposed to mean, but mine just means, "hey, that reminds me of this great book!". As I said.
Obviously it isn't the whole law: wood has quite a lot of calories and burns nicely in a stove. But try getting fat from eating sawdust.
What, nobody told you what that "filler" is in all those foods imported from China?
I thought the filler was melamine. Or lead.
The whole point is many skinny people violate this law but do not get obese.
No, they don't. If they did somehow take in more calories then they put out without gaining weight they would be destroying matter and energy, which is physically impossible in our universe. Our bodies are not some magical boxes where the laws of physics suddenly stop applying.
Um, no, you're wrong. One possibility is that their bodies excrete a higher percentage of the food they take in without metabolizing it. No magic involved.
I think you have a too simplistic view of human bodies. They are not machines that perfectly process whatever is put into them.
it's easy to test this hypothesis.
kill all gut bacteria from fat people and see if they thin in some cases.
and since in the usa almost everyone takes massive doses of antibiotics for even bad hair day, i think this is debunked with readily available data already.
I volunteer you for this study.
Can you name a single primarily psychopathic society to provide even anecdotal experimental evidence for your claim? Theory is nice and all, but is notoriously inapplicable to human behavior.
I am not at all providing this as any evidence for the GP's claim, I'm just mentioning one of my favorite books by Frank Herbert; "The Dosadi Experiment". A planet full of sociopaths makes for a dangerous environment.
Who the hell decided to call something "Dell Venue 8 7000"? You don't put two numbers one after another, it's just stupid!
Time to fire the marketing guys!
You're posting about it, so I guess the marketing guys earned their pay on this one. Sure, you can say, "but, but I'm pointing out how stupid that is!"
Makes no difference; you already made the contribution that they wanted from you. For free.
Any form of life that is smart enough to go faster than the speed of light would view us something like the way we view bacteria.
I'm continually astonished at the assumptions people make with absolutely no data whatsoever.
How do you know we're not decedents of exiles on a prison planet already?
"Decedents"? What an egregious error - you're dead to me.
Good one - you said something funny entirely by accident. Maybe if you have children, your descendants can explain to you the difference between "descendant" and "decedent".
I thought someone had proven, with a good thought experiment...
"Proven". I don't think that word means what you think it means.
The word you were looking for was "conjectured", which is as valuable as a handful of spooge.
Until the Martian bacteria escapes from the lab and starts to devour everything on Earth. Alien bacteria is in some ways far more dangerous than spacecraft riding humanoids.
You write that like we've found alien bacteria, or that you somehow know how this hypothetical organism would act.
Are you talking out of your ass, or is there something about you that would generate the largest headlines in the history of journalism?
I'm guessing... ass.
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