Grahame Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Happy 200th Chuck D. The Santa Barbara Independent Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Darwin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Knuckledragger Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 BRB, teaching intelligent design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadhead Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Happy Birthday Heretic... I mean Darwin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappyjones123 Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 darwin was a hack. he stole newtons work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherwood Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Shoot, I'll give that man a happy birthday. Unlike a fair number of scientists from his time, his innovations are still theoretically relevant today, in fields he wouldn't have imagined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 darwin was a hack. he stole newtons work. meh. Maybe Malthus, but not Newton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidbasement Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 His (and Wallace's) theory remains THE unifying theory of all the life sciences, 150 years after publication. Good on ya, C-dawg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chekhonte Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 darwin was a hack. he stole newtons work. Please, newton ripped off Euclid's axiomatic method. They were both hacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asr Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 We need a good Darwin Award story to celebrate this momentous occasion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidbasement Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 We need a good Darwin Award story to celebrate this momentous occasion. Hmm, this one doesn't involve a death, but an acquaintance of mine is a high performance athlete. He was showing off for a girl last year by doing handstands, when he tipped over and impaled himself on one of his trophies. Like I said, he didn't die, but he probably didn't reproduce that night either, so it's deserving of an honourable mention at least, if not an award. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted February 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 We need a good Darwin Award story to celebrate this momentous occasion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggeh Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Absolutely astonishing, thats the first of countless dinosaur cartoons I've found more amusing than counting my legs. Also hurrah for Darwin. It continues to irk me that the loathsome British proles voted the monstrous Churchill our greatest ever Briton. Not nearly so awful as Diana making the top ten at all. But I digress. There has been a pleathora of wonderful radio stuff about Darwin over the last wee while. I have a fair number of them on podcast. If anyone not fortuitous enough to be able to subscribe to the BBC wants copies I could upload them somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherwood Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 thats the first of countless dinosaur cartoons I've found more amusing than counting my legs. You, sir, are apparently allergic to fun. Or easily digestible "humour". Good sir Darwin would have found yours melancholic, I've no doubt. In conclusion: if there is hope, it lies in the proles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggeh Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Meh. In my opinion, the best strip cartoon there is, is Beau Peep, as seen in The Daily Star. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherwood Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Douglas, I think you might have been born in the wrong era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggeh Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Nah, if I was born into another time, I wouldn't have been able to shoot the shit on the internet with your fine selves like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherwood Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Verily, truer words were never spoken. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have bombastic, circus-themed prog rock to enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggeh Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 In-fucking-deed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asr Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 You know who else has a 200th birthday today? Abe Lincoln! New penny chronicles Lincoln's humble beginnings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPH Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Thumbs up for Darwin, one of the greatest scientists of all times. Also hurrah for Darwin. It continues to irk me that the loathsome British proles voted the monstrous Churchill our greatest ever Briton. Not nearly so awful as Diana making the top ten at all. But I digress. That's quite surprising, Churchill has good historical value, but Darwin is on a much higher level of greatness as far as I'm concerned. About Diana, I always thought the Brits fascination for her was strange, but at the same time, I can't understand why people here love Celine Dion... Please, newton ripped off Euclid's axiomatic method. They were both hacks. Not to mention that he stole Calculus from Leibniz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggeh Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Churchill was a monster. First use of chemical weapons against a civillian population? Churchill against the Kurds. Set up the precident well for Mr Hussain about 100 years later. Fire-bombing of Dresden? Unsound both ethically, and in terms of the advancement of the war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPH Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Churchill was a monster. First use of chemical weapons against a civillian population? Churchill against the Kurds. Set up the precident well for Mr Hussain about 100 years later. Fire-bombing of Dresden? Unsound both ethically, and in terms of the advancement of the war. I just looked at the BBC 100 Greatest Brittons list and there are some pretty stupid things on there as expected. For example, David Beckham and JK Rowling ahead of James Maxwell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggeh Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 A number who made the top britons list also made the Channel 4 worst britons list. Tony Blair and Lady T being the obvious ones. Doing a skim of the 100 list, and thinking about who isnt on it too but whom I rate, I'd think these ten as a worthy list off the top of my head. 1)Charles Darwin (Biology) 2)Sir Isaac Newton (Physics/Astronomy) 3)William Shakespeare (literature) 4)Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Engineering) 5)James D. Watson (Genetics) 6)Alan Turing (Computers) 6)Oliver Cromwell (Politics) 7)James VI and I (Politics) 8)Margaret Thatcher (Politics) 9)Alexander Graham Bell (Telecommunications) 10)Sir Frank Whittle (Aviation) Fuck John Lennon, him being in the top 100 nevermind the top ten is a fucking joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherwood Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 4)Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Engineering) A tribute to one of the few men capable of living up to that name: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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