Comments on: The nubile beauties of Rigel 6B will never be mine http://rhinocrisy.org/2006/06/the-nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never-be-mine/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:07:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Anonymous http://rhinocrisy.org/2006/06/the-nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never-be-mine/#comment-932 Anonymous Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:22:35 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=631#comment-932 wow that was good squid stuff!!!<br/><br/>on the topic, i know a bunch of people who have webbed toes of varying extent. this actually leads to a question i've had for a little while which is the effect of having even partly bipedal competitors on the development of religion. i say this because the abrahamic religions with their strict human-centric vision come from the one area of the world where there are no bears and no monkeys. i think that's important - with a distinct (and in case of monkeys, annoying) reminder of family trees and natural possibilities it's a little hard to make up a "husbandry" narrative. i made this up because i didn't find the desert/jungle explanation as compelling as some do. <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="http://rhinocrisy.blogspot.com/2006/06/nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never.html" REL="nofollow" TITLE="alohaflower at mindspring dot com">hibiscus</a> wow that was good squid stuff!!!

on the topic, i know a bunch of people who have webbed toes of varying extent. this actually leads to a question i’ve had for a little while which is the effect of having even partly bipedal competitors on the development of religion. i say this because the abrahamic religions with their strict human-centric vision come from the one area of the world where there are no bears and no monkeys. i think that’s important - with a distinct (and in case of monkeys, annoying) reminder of family trees and natural possibilities it’s a little hard to make up a “husbandry” narrative. i made this up because i didn’t find the desert/jungle explanation as compelling as some do. 

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]]> By: Anonymous http://rhinocrisy.org/2006/06/the-nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never-be-mine/#comment-931 Anonymous Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:38:11 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=631#comment-931 not saheli nor colin-the-poster neither<br/><br/>it may be <a HREF="http://www.yale.edu/peabody/exhibits/giantsquid/squidmodel.html" REL="nofollow">this thing</a> 's fault (apologies to those who lack quicktime) because it traumatized tot-me <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="http://rhinocrisy.blogspot.com/2006/06/nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never.html" REL="nofollow" TITLE="alohaflower at mindspring dot com">hibiscus</a> not saheli nor colin-the-poster neither

it may be this thing ’s fault (apologies to those who lack quicktime) because it traumatized tot-me 

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]]> By: Hedgehog http://rhinocrisy.org/2006/06/the-nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never-be-mine/#comment-930 Hedgehog Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:21:30 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=631#comment-930 Hibiscus, are you sure you don't know <a HREF="http://ssrdatta.blogspot.com/2006/03/eight-legs.html" REL="nofollow">Saheli</a> ? <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="rhinocrisy.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow" TITLE="">hedgehog</a> Hibiscus, are you sure you don’t know Saheli ? 

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]]> By: Anonymous http://rhinocrisy.org/2006/06/the-nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never-be-mine/#comment-929 Anonymous Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:13:41 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=631#comment-929 i took the evolutionary path less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. i couldn't use "picture people naked" to overcome stagefright because i was too shy. so i switched to picturing people as squid. eventually i gained the skill to do this in conversation, remapping all participants, as seen in this formula:<br/><br/><i><a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-symbolic_communication" REL="nofollow">post-symbolic communication</a>  + <a HREF="http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/255731.html" REL="nofollow">squid on a stick</a> = <a HREF="http://fitzgeraldgullam.com/Pictures/happy-little-squid-1024.jpg" REL="nofollow">me</a></i> <br/><br/>added benefits include waving one's tentacles in the air for emphasis and being able to almost completely wipe a partner's physical appearance from the mind while talking with them. how are you? <i>squish squish.</i> oh i see. <i>squish.</i> she did? <i>squish squish squish squish!</i> she didn't!!! <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="http://rhinocrisy.blogspot.com/2006/06/nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never.html" REL="nofollow" TITLE="alohaflower at mindspring dot com">hibiscus</a> i took the evolutionary path less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. i couldn’t use “picture people naked” to overcome stagefright because i was too shy. so i switched to picturing people as squid. eventually i gained the skill to do this in conversation, remapping all participants, as seen in this formula:

post-symbolic communication  + squid on a stick = me 

added benefits include waving one’s tentacles in the air for emphasis and being able to almost completely wipe a partner’s physical appearance from the mind while talking with them. how are you? squish squish. oh i see. squish. she did? squish squish squish squish! she didn’t!!! 

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]]> By: Hedgehog http://rhinocrisy.org/2006/06/the-nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never-be-mine/#comment-928 Hedgehog Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:47:54 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=631#comment-928 Welcome, Jon. Now I must <a HREF="http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/5115.html?id=3dUpeXoD" REL="nofollow">correct you</a> . <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="rhinocrisy.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow" TITLE="">hedgehog</a> Welcome, Jon. Now I must correct you . 

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]]> By: Jonhttp://www.tinyrevolution.com http://rhinocrisy.org/2006/06/the-nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never-be-mine/#comment-927 Jonhttp://www.tinyrevolution.com Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:07:17 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=631#comment-927 <i>By now you may have already noted that no creature has evolved the ability to teleport or phase through rock</i> <br/><br/>A while back I had an enjoyable conversation with my sister in which she explained to me why no species has evolved with wheels. <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="http://www.tinyrevolution.com" REL="nofollow" TITLE="">Jon</a> By now you may have already noted that no creature has evolved the ability to teleport or phase through rock 

A while back I had an enjoyable conversation with my sister in which she explained to me why no species has evolved with wheels. 

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]]> By: Anonymous http://rhinocrisy.org/2006/06/the-nubile-beauties-of-rigel-6b-will-never-be-mine/#comment-926 Anonymous Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:56:06 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=631#comment-926 What a beautiful argument of Nabokov's! (Did you hear about the crazy person who went around naming new butterflies after Nabakovian characters? They were very scrupulous to make sure Humbert Humbert was never on the same continent as Lolita.) I have often had some intuitive sense that that might be true in general, but with the viceroy and the monarch, it just seems more elegantly articulated. It would be nice to have some compuational justification behind the theory though. A description of the set of possible butterfly frame configurations given the possible mutations, and probabilistic analysis thereof.<br/><br/>I was always really fascinated with the research into the alternative oxygen dissolving fluids. . .it would be really really interesting if you could posit an alien life form that was realistically different yet not toxic. <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="http://ssrdatta.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow" TITLE="sahelidatta at hotmail dot com">Saheli</a> What a beautiful argument of Nabokov’s! (Did you hear about the crazy person who went around naming new butterflies after Nabakovian characters? They were very scrupulous to make sure Humbert Humbert was never on the same continent as Lolita.) I have often had some intuitive sense that that might be true in general, but with the viceroy and the monarch, it just seems more elegantly articulated. It would be nice to have some compuational justification behind the theory though. A description of the set of possible butterfly frame configurations given the possible mutations, and probabilistic analysis thereof.

I was always really fascinated with the research into the alternative oxygen dissolving fluids. . .it would be really really interesting if you could posit an alien life form that was realistically different yet not toxic. 

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