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Right? The hell is up with that? Haha, I did the play-pause-play-pause. All I have to say about this thread is; MUST BE ALIENS.

You know what- you're right. I'd need to see where I was going. What about; +

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Google went for the other holiday this time. It's alright. We get the Doodle every year.

Ike <3

Jiminy mother effing cricket. I guess you learn something new everyday.

Aiding in channeling water makes sense but concluding that fingerprints must have an evolutionary benefit because chimps and apes have them doesn't make much sense to me- are you implying they developed separately in each species? Why must everything always be beneficial? Can't we be caught in the in-between of something vestigial from a common ancestor being weeded out? Can something be neutral and not expend much energy so it kind of lingers for a while?

AUGH Vi Hart. Get out of here! She's that classically beautiful, musically talented, highly intelligent, perfect, adorably nerdy girl from high school that I always wanted to be. *spits on the ground* Well, someone has issues. Hello, hi.

You can put humans on a replica of Earth, but over time, even what appear to be "trivial" changes that occur on either planets will have huge impacts on genes... they would evolve into different species in a short period of time...

They wouldn't be exactly the same. Our environment shapes us in very complex ways. Here's an easy example; "Native Americans, due to the lack of prior contact with Europeans, had not previously been exposed to the diseases that were prevalent on the distant continent. Therefore they had not built up internal immunities to the diseases or formed any medicines to combat them. Europeans came into the New World bearing various diseases. Those infected with diseases either possessed them in a dormant state or were not quarantined in such a way that distanced them enough from Native Americans to not spread the diseases, allowing diseases to spread into epidemics." http://en.wikipedia....e_and_epidemics This happened on the SAME PLANET. And in a relatively short amount of time, too.

Another definition for alien is an extraterrestrial that is not human. Are you being serious?

Yes.

I blame the goats. (joking) Just read that they could live for a year or more without food or water, so fishermen kept them on boats for fresh meat without any expense to care for them. That's disgusting.

For the longest time I didn't realize homeopathy / holistic health were separate things. I guess homeopathy is a type of holistic practice?

I think it's safe to say that ie; irritated/inflamed areas of an eye from a viral infection are more susceptible to bacteria. Just tell your doctor the situation and get treated for all of 'em. 2 weeks seems like a long time :S

They determined whether skin behaves more as a rubber-like or hard material, in terms of friction. Surface area is a factor in rubber-like materials if I'm not mistaken. Ridges reduce surface area and therefore friction in rubber-like materials, so I don't see how even if the glass was swapped for bark this fact wouldn't still hold true.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8093134.stm

Yes, I did surprisingly. Here you're making the incorrect assumption that "fingerprints aren't as unique as we think". When if you read about the Mayfield case it was blatantly shotty work on the FBI's part, not fingerprints of two different people being virtually indistinguishable, that caused a wrong arrest. "F.B.I. officials said that the erroneous fingerprint evidence against the lawyer, Brandon Mayfield, 37, of Aloha, Ore., stemmed from the poor quality of a digital image of the print sent from Spain and that they were conducting a review into the use of such procedures." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/us/bomb-case-against-lawyer-is-rejected.html?ref=brandonmayfield I don't see how problems with forensic science have anything to do with the actual makeup of fingerprints. Sounds off topic. Sorry.

Of course out of all the humans on the planet parts of our prints may resemble anothers and lead to problems as above but that doesn't mean each print isn't completely unique (which is what I was told).

They don't have humans in Australia

Fingerprints develop in the womb from stress on the basal layer. It appears as though it is a byproduct of normal skin development. I don't see why it needs a purpose. I could be wrong here.

Great vacation I've been on was to Vieques, Puerto Rico. Small island that is quiet, safe and romantic. Rented a jeep and explored abandoned navy bunkers in the hillsides / went out into the bioluminescent bay / evening dinners in magical bungalow restaurants / rented wave-runners almost everyday. I'd definitely recommend it. P.S. as a warning.. the U.S. used to test bombs on the island and there are contaminated portions that are blocked off. Also a higher cancer rate recorded in the local population, among other things. So you might turn green and sprout an extra limb, or die a week later.

Necrophilia aint no felony.

Okay, I'll be blunt too. What are any of you talking about? The universe exploring itself through consciousness? Are you going to recommend mushrooms as well? "The universe is so majestic, conscious beings from such simplicity". Get real. It's called science. Complex things will come from less complex things. It will happen again. This isn't a goddamn Carl Sagan video. Keep the whimsical sh*t to yourself. What. What is this? An excerpt from a samurai novel? A quote from the Karate Kid?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12973273