Why do people become angry and verbally violent over claims like this. that makes your proclaimed intelligence levels a lie.
If you were really that smart, and this was really that offensively false, you would use your intelligence to provide physical evidnce of how and why this is not possible, instead of yelling in the wind about how stupid people are to believe this.
Oh, yeah, that's really going to convince anyone that you're right. /sarcastic
If humans can evolve from apes and build computers, i dont see why they cant starve and dehydrate themselves and survive it.
If you were really that smart, and this was really that offensively false, you would use your intelligence to provide physical evidnce of how and why this is not possible, instead of yelling in the wind about how stupid people are to believe this.
Oh, yeah, that's really going to convince anyone that you're right. /sarcastic
If humans can evolve from apes and build computers, i dont see why they cant starve and dehydrate themselves and survive it.
SuicideDo, the Brewtal Drunken Immortal.
Originally Posted by SuicideDo
If humans can evolve from apes and build computers, i dont see why they cant starve and dehydrate themselves and survive it.
1. Humans haven't "evolved from" apes - we are a species of apes.
2. Evolution happens across thousands of generations - the change possible within a single lifetime is very limited - for good reason.
The old man would have shriveled like a prune and digested his own stomach tissue until he died in severe pain. What you propose is simply magic. No matter how many times i fall from buildings in my lifetime, i won't evolve to fly.
Originally Posted by Odlov
1. Humans haven't "evolved from" apes - we are a species of apes.
2. Evolution happens across thousands of generations - the change possible within a single lifetime is very limited - for good reason.
The old man would have shriveled like a prune and digested his own stomach tissue until he died in severe pain. What you propose is simply magic. No matter how many times i fall from buildings in my lifetime, i won't evolve to fly.
Never once did i support the idea of magic or miracle pertaining to the claim as being presumably true, but presented my opinions of how it might be possible.
I Still find there is more reason to believe that it can be made possible, anything, through the right preparation and training and exercise than to place faith in presumed facts and recorded statistics.
Saying it is impossible for the human body to prepare for great feats like this is also like saying that human beings could never, ever, not once in the course of time, ever construct a machine that can fly.
Im not saying that this man's claim is genuine, but that the presentation could very possibly be a real aspect of life's many wonders and mysteries.
SuicideDo, the Brewtal Drunken Immortal.
Originally Posted by SuicideDo
Never once did i support the idea of magic or miracle pertaining to the claim as being presumably true, but presented my opinions of how it might be possible.
Your opinion is wrong.
If i "present my opinion" on how I see it possible for the sun to be a cube, I should expect to be made a laughing stock unless i prove concrete evidence (which you didn't do).
I Still find there is more reason to believe that it can be made possible, anything, through the right preparation and training and exercise than to place faith in presumed facts and recorded statistics.
No, nothing is "presumed" about facts of basic biology - they have been continuously verified throughout human history and in the labs. Do you know how many starving men and women lived throughout history? You know how much "fasting training" they received? All the peasants? The serfs? The Russians in Leningrad blockade? Yeah, no one magically lost the need to eat. Would be damn nice though.
It's you who "places faith" in as of yet unproven ridiculous claims.
Saying it is impossible for the human body to prepare for great feats like this is also like saying that human beings could never, ever, not once in the course of time, ever construct a machine that can fly.
Complete strawman.
Our ability to build complex machinery is a result of a long evolution of our cognitive abilities AND collection of human knowledge. Everything we make now is thanks to knowledge we've collected over thousands of years. Give a million Cro-Magnons a single lifetime to develop and build a car, and none of them will succeed - because it's impossible.
Also, why do you think we even need to build airplanes? couldn't we just "evolve to fly"?
Last edited by Odlov; Jun 2, 2010 at 06:01 AM.
