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[horseofcourse]

With Einstein maybe it was circumstance that brought him to prominence. Not that he wasn't bright or didn't apply himself or that he would have not worked harder than anyone else either - just that he came upon his insights as regards to the problems he was looking at predisposed through his experience to grasp them.

Would his mind born to an Australian aborigine living a life of walkabout subsistence have contributed at all to mathematics and physics?


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Aug4-08, 05:42 PM #54
K.J.Healey


Posts: 639 Re: Gorillas should be America's professional football players

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Some people are born with an amazing ability for music, and some small fraction of those go on to make more than average salaries because of it.
Some people are born with above average height, and some VERY VERY SMALL fraction of those go on to make more than average salaries because of it.
Some people are born with above average intelligence, and some small fraction of those go on to make more than average salaries because of it.

Some people are born with above average INSERT HERE, and some SMALL FRACTION of those go on to make very large, above average salaries.

how about this one :
The top 100 jockeys earned between $2.8 and $22.2 million in 2004, or an average of $5.7 million.

I call UNFAIR! Why should they make so much money just for being short?

Sticky, you should think things through more. I feel like you argue with very little world experience or research into your ideas. (shortsighted)

(and as you see a thread which the first post was a thoughtful one about gorillas being NFL players eventually became about Einstein and Jockeys. Physics sporty threads, my new hobby!!)

[horseofcourse]

A group of gorillas playing against the best football players in history would be like the football players at the #1 college football team in the country playing against a bunch of ten year old kids. Intelligence won't matter. No matter what play you run, the gorillas could squash humans like a bug.

This is not a correct comparison, you're assuming the gorillas are BETTER than a college football team (not just in size, but skill). This is not so.

If you're going to compare something, do it right

The situation is more like taking a body builder, and saying they would be good at golf, because they should be able to, with a little training, out-drive any normal human. This doesn't work though. There's a lot more to it than just drives. Get it?

There's a lot more to football than just smashing people. Have you ever played tackle football?

[horseofcourse]

Ok, here's how I kill this thread.

If team owners knew people were willing to pay to watch gorillas play football it would've been done ages ago. Cheaper to pay 100 bananas per season to a dumb gorilla with limited rights. Oh wait, what's that? That's the voice of thousands of enraged hippies demanding gorilla rights. Then owners would be forced to go back to humans thus forcing another one of you to create a post about how some other animal can play football.

Dolphins have higher mathematical skills than humans. They just don't have the hands to write stuff down!

^ makes as much sense as football-playing gorillas.

[horseofcourse]

...and the final post on the gorillas playing NFL sporty thread on the physics forum was this classic...



Rome lasted approximately 900 years. I am not correcting you to make a point about the merits or demerits of sports. I just don't like it when people are ignorant about history. I would correct you no matter what your opinion is on sports.

By my count you are both wrong on the duration of Rome. It should start with Romulus and end with the fall of Constantinople. A degraded state is a state afterall, we aren't talking of how long ago Great Britain went defunct now aren't we. So from Romulus (753 BC) to the Fall of Byzantium to the Ottomans (1453 AD) I think you should be a bit closer to 2206 years give or take.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

With Einstein maybe it was circumstance that brought him to prominence. Not that he wasn't bright or didn't apply himself or that he would have not worked harder than anyone else either - just that he came upon his insights as regards to the problems he was looking at predisposed through his experience to grasp them.

Would his mind born to an Australian aborigine living a life of walkabout subsistence have contributed at all to mathematics and physics?


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Aug4-08, 05:42 PM #54
K.J.Healey


Posts: 639 Re: Gorillas should be America's professional football players

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Some people are born with an amazing ability for music, and some small fraction of those go on to make more than average salaries because of it.
Some people are born with above average height, and some VERY VERY SMALL fraction of those go on to make more than average salaries because of it.
Some people are born with above average intelligence, and some small fraction of those go on to make more than average salaries because of it.

Some people are born with above average INSERT HERE, and some SMALL FRACTION of those go on to make very large, above average salaries.

how about this one :
The top 100 jockeys earned between $2.8 and $22.2 million in 2004, or an average of $5.7 million.

I call UNFAIR! Why should they make so much money just for being short?

Sticky, you should think things through more. I feel like you argue with very little world experience or research into your ideas. (shortsighted)

(and as you see a thread which the first post was a thoughtful one about gorillas being NFL players eventually became about Einstein and Jockeys. Physics sporty threads, my new hobby!!)

Oh my God.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

found this on a physics forum....(don't ask!)

It has always been a mystery to me why so many Americans idolize professional athletes. Football and basketball players are especially idolized.
Why don't we just go further down the evolutionary ladder and have gorillas be our professional football players? I think that humans could train gorillas to play football in fairly decent adherence to the rules if the gorillas were trained to play those sports from birth. With all due respect to America's professional athletes (I would play professional football too if I were big enough, and someone would pay me millions of dollars per year to play it.), it's not rocket science.

The average male gorilla is six feet tall and weighs 450 lbs. Female gorillas are far smaller, averaging only about 200 pounds. Males would be much better football players.Gorillas are vegetarians, and, as a consequence, they have a very low body fat percentage. I suspect that the average male gorilla could bench press 1,000 pounds.
If we're going to watch football, why not watch the best possible football players: gorillas? Give a gorilla the football, and I think no five men could tackle him.


I have researched this topic on the internet. All the sources that I saw are in agreement that the average gorilla can bench press 4,000 pounds! The strongest men on the face of the earth cannot bench press 1,000 pounds!
Why don't we just go further down the evolutionary ladder and have gorillas be our professional football players, and why not idolize gorillas as our best athletes, not humans? If I were going to idolize someone for their strength and speed, I would rather idolize the far more deserving gorilla than a human.

Oh my God.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

Ok, here's how I kill this thread.

If team owners knew people were willing to pay to watch gorillas play football it would've been done ages ago. Cheaper to pay 100 bananas per season to a dumb gorilla with limited rights. Oh wait, what's that? That's the voice of thousands of enraged hippies demanding gorilla rights. Then owners would be forced to go back to humans thus forcing another one of you to create a post about how some other animal can play football.

Dolphins have higher mathematical skills than humans. They just don't have the hands to write stuff down!

^ makes as much sense as football-playing gorillas.

nnnnnnnnnnnno!!

[clyde]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

...and the final post on the gorillas playing NFL sporty thread on the physics forum was this classic...



Rome lasted approximately 900 years. I am not correcting you to make a point about the merits or demerits of sports. I just don't like it when people are ignorant about history. I would correct you no matter what your opinion is on sports.

By my count you are both wrong on the duration of Rome. It should start with Romulus and end with the fall of Constantinople. A degraded state is a state afterall, we aren't talking of how long ago Great Britain went defunct now aren't we. So from Romulus (753 BC) to the Fall of Byzantium to the Ottomans (1453 AD) I think you should be a bit closer to 2206 years give or take.

aaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

[horseofcourse]

Wisconsin Whitewater 3
Mount Union 0

start of 2nd half...didn't know they were playing tonight...it's on EVPN2, may have to watch a little bit.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

Wisconsin Whitewater 3
Mount Union 0

start of 2nd half...didn't know they were playing tonight...it's on EVPN2, may have to watch a little bit.

I know I am..they went up 7-3, as I am sure you know.

[clyde]

Why Is The Wrong Team In Purlpey!!?




We're Losing 10-0 After 3!!!!

[horseofcourse]

Great game. 13-10 final...I think Whitewater was a hair better, but they are pretty identical. I guess they win the series 4-3 and have outscored Mount now by 2 points in the 7 games!

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by clyde

Why Is The Wrong Team In Purlpey!!?




We're Losing 10-0 After 3!!!!

They're identical teams I think...even same team colors. They could play that game 10 times and it would probably be 5-5.

[clyde]

But MU had white with blue trim..no?



God, when I thought we were up 7-3...I kept seeing the evpn score showed Swissconsin up 10-0.

I thought.."Boy, typical evpn.Can't even get the score right." Then the announcers said 10-0...Swissconsin.

THEN...I saw the school name on MU's helmets.




I was cheering on the wrong fucl<in' team!!

[horseofcourse]

The Cavs played a fake basketball game today. Kyrie Irving scored 21 points in 14 minutes. I'm not sure if it means anything at all, but he shot 15 foul shots. I've never seen a guy average over a free throw a minute.

[clyde]

Good deal.



But believe me, I can wait.

[horseofcourse]

wherefore art thou romeo??

Why'd we ever fire that guy??

[horseofcourse]

Seneca Wallace is leading a juggernaut today....10 first half points...total explosion of offense.

[horseofcourse]

Oh my God, the Browns threw a 76 yard touchdown pass. Has that happened since Webster Slaughter?? Romeo beat the Packers, the Colts won a game, so why not I guess.

[horseofcourse]

We were able to disappear that 4th quarter 10 point lead very quickly....for a second I was worried about losing vital draft position. PUtting ourselves in position for a loss now.