Human evolution

[reds4ever]

More! More!

[Combat Ingrid]

As you wish. How about a burning banana?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8886095851884987053&q=burning+banana

[Combat Ingrid]

Plenty of Darwin candidates here: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=idiots

[St Leo]

Re: Human evolution

Originally posted by Qilue
However, a new species of human seems to be emerging and in spite of all their efforts to make themselves extinct, they appear to be flourishing. This new species, provisionally callled Homo witless, seems to have lost Homo sapiens' propensity towards not engaging in unwise activities.

The reason we are so successful in the first place is because we take risks and defy common wisdom. If humans didn't have a propensity for curiosity and cavalier adventure, we'd still be scratching our hairy arses on the bloody savannah. And being eaten by hyenas every night.

[Lorizael]

Really? I thought it had something to do with opposable thumbs. Dead people don't pass on DNA. We're successful because stupid people go out and do stupid things and die, and then the smart people, who sat behind and watched, laughing, learn from the mistakes of the stupid people, do it right, and have lots of sex.

[Zkribbler]

I'm compressing the previous post down to its essentials:

Originally posted by Lorizael
smart people . . . have lots of sex.

[Lorizael]

You got a problem with my runon sentence?

[Ecthy]

Some of those idiots are pretty funny and stupid, I don't get the security camera one though. What is he throwing there and at what?

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I'm compressing the previous post down to its essentials:

Smart people have lots of sex, but they also have less kids...


"Smart people have lots of sex"... Cause or effect, I wonder. Does sex make you smarter? Or do you get more sex if you're smarter? I think I'll do a study on this.

No, wait, I'm fat and unattractive, would not work.

A great pickupline, mind... "I'm doing a study on correlation of sex and intelligence, and I think you'd make an exellent testsubject. "

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Snotty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK4qJmthrl8&NR

chavs+scooter+roundabout=

This is a cut of the original video. not for the fainthearted

Now that is how you tech a Chav about physics!

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Some of those idiots are pretty funny and stupid, I don't get the security camera one though. What is he throwing there and at what?

It seems like he was trying to smash the window by throwing large rocks at it. Got some instant karma as reward

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
Smart people have lots of sex, but they also have less kids...

At least nowadays, with the use of contraceptives.

That´s why mankind is destined to get dumber and dumber.

My theory:
Before contraception smart people had only slightly less children than dumb people. There were still more dumb people around, but the ratio between smart and dumb people remained stable because dumb people often had a worse standard of living and did more things which let them die before they were able to procreate.

Nowadays we have modern medicines, which lets you survive even if you do dumb things. And, even worse, we have contraception. Smart people are smart enough to know to use them without having accidents happen. Dumb people however have more "accidents" in using contraceptives, don´t use them (either because they don´t know what contraceptives do, or because of religious reasons) or they or they intentionally have more children (in germany for example because Parents get money from the state for every children they have).


Therefore, as intelligence is around 50% genetic and 50% environment you will have an increasing ratio of dumb people vs. smart people.

Mankind is doomed

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST


At least nowadays, with the use of contraceptives.

That´s why mankind is destined to get dumber and dumber.

My theory:
Before contraception smart people had only slightly less children than dumb people. There were still more dumb people around, but the ratio between smart and dumb people remained stable because dumb people often had a worse standard of living and did more things which let them die before they were able to procreate.

Nowadays we have modern medicines, which lets you survive even if you do dumb things. And, even worse, we have contraception. Smart people are smart enough to know to use them without having accidents happen. Dumb people however have more "accidents" in using contraceptives, don´t use them (either because they don´t know what contraceptives do, or because of religious reasons) or they or they intentionally have more children (in germany for example because Parents get money from the state for every children they have).


Therefore, as intelligence is around 50% genetic and 50% environment you will have an increasing ratio of dumb people vs. smart people.

Mankind is doomed

It's a slow enough decline that we can probably use direct manipulation of the human genome to reverse the decline before it cripples humanity's capacity to technologically progress.

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST



Therefore, as intelligence is around 50% genetic and 50% environment you will have an increasing ratio of dumb people vs. smart people.

This isn't even false.
It's meaningless.

[Blaupanzer]

Dumb people, people who sleepwalk thru their lives, people living lives of quiet desparation, people too poor to look beyond daily survival constitute as a group most of the world's population. For the self-delusional rest of us, such videos of sheer idiocy are great fun. We have the time and the relative affluence to find delight in even the stupidest of behaviors.