Weird facts

[st_swithin]

Homo stultissimus, however, has been around for 300,000 years.

[The Mad Monk]

You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.
-- Dave Barry, "Postpetroleum Guzzler"

[iamlod]

Originally posted by st_swithin
Homo stultissimus, however, has been around for 300,000 years.

....and they, along with their cousins 'Homo Stultior' can still be found today....

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by st_swithin
Ants can lift 10 times their own body mass and carry it more than 1,000 times their own body length.

Yes, but can they pick up a chair by the bottom of one leg with one hand?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Why?

Let me paraphrase Desmond Morris, "It is silly for us to attack insects with insecticides instead of teeth."

Um -- I live in the Western world, not the undeveloped part of the world.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by MrFun
Um -- I live in the Western world, not the undeveloped part of the world.

That's just an excuse

[Japher]

Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up Scotty" on any episode of Star Trek...

he said things like "Beam us up Scotty", "Scotty, beam me up", "Scotty, would you like to beam me?"

butt never those four words in that order that everyone attributes to him...

[Dinner]

Originally posted by MrFun
And do we count all species of humans, including those that went extinct?

By definition if they are a different species then they aren't human. You must mean other homonids in the same genus.

BTW Have you ever seen a human population growth curve? It grows expentially so it makes perfect sense that today's population of around 6-8 billion (I lost track) is way more then the total population of all Humans since the beginning of recorded time.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Oerdin


By definition if they are a different species then they aren't human. You must mean other homonids in the same genus.

BTW Have you ever seen a human population growth curve? It grows expentially so it makes perfect sense that today's population of around 6-8 billion (I lost track) is way more then the total population of all Humans since the beginning of recorded time.

But unless you count all forms of visual expression, and not exclusively written language, then recorded time would exclude even prehistoric Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by MrFun


But unless you count all forms of visual expression, and not exclusively written language, then recorded time would exclude even prehistoric Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

ah! but does all this include the pro-perpetaticular homo-erogenous pro-sapien hecto perpendicualr sapiens?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by The Andy-Man


ah! but does all this include the pro-perpetaticular homo-erogenous pro-sapien hecto perpendicualr sapiens?

Zylka gave you some of his "good stuff" didn't he?

[st_swithin]

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[MrFun]

. . . . and we don't give a sh*t!

How about that??

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by PLATO
There are more people alive today than have ever died.

Wholly untrue.

The amount of people alive today is only around 5% of the total human population across all ages of history.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ramo
Those calculations are crap. Since homo sapiens have only been around for about 100,000-200,000 years (not a million years).

Doesn't really matter. The number of individuals alive until the last 20 000 years or so is an insignificant part of the calculation. Might add a billion or so, but not more...