SoTier
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8 hours ago, BillsFan4 said:
Sure, if you look at humans in their current form compared to other species on this earth we look out of place. But we weren't always in our current form, and all of the stuff you are mentioning happened over millions of years of human evolution.
A few things (if you're interested. Evolution is something that interests me, and I tend to be a long winded poster, so I apologize in advance if this ends up being a long, boring post... lol).
- Human brains didn't grow 300% practically overnight. It grew slowly over 2 million (+) years of evolution.
Homo Erectus, which is one of our earlier ancestors, and lived around 1.8(+)million years ago, had an internal skull volume of roughly 600-700ml. It slowly grew, reaching 1000-1100ml around 500,000 years ago. Then reached a size of 1500ml about 20,000 years ago. Interestingly, the human brain began to shrink somewhere over the last 10-20,000 years to about 1350ml (IIRC, I believe it was in large part due to poor nutrition during that time) and then slowly began growing again to its current average size of 1400-1450ml (or cubic centimeters if you prefer).
- It took a long time for the homo genus to climb to where they are on the food chain (and it can be argued we are still not at the top of the food chain, or even an apex predator (of which there are many), but that's another discussion)
Our rise up the food chain happened slowly over many 100's of thousands of (or million+) years as our brains developed and we were able to start using tools and eventually making tools and then creating better tools + weapons.
Also, We are omnivores and didn't always necessarily use tools to hunt. We can survive as vegetarians. Using tools to hunt is something that human ancestors learned and improved on over time as their brains evolved. The earliest human ancestors lived on a diet likely very similar to chimpanzees (fruits, nuts, bugs, plants, and at times meat + marrow they could scavenge or safely hunt).
- We were not always so hairless compared to other species, and we didn't always wear clothes (which is relatively new in the scope of our evolution). That is another thing you can attribute to evolution. We became less and less hairy over time. There are numerous theories as to why. One that I can remember off the top of my head had to do with early humans moving away from the forests/jungles and onto the African savana, where in order to regulate their body temperatures and keep their brains from overheating, began losing their body hair.
-Early ancestors did live out in the elements. Living in caves is something that initially had more to do with protection. Building better and better shelters is again something that evolved over time.
- Humans are not not the only species born helpless. There are many.
They are called altricial species - some examples off the top of my head are dogs, cats, rodents, marcupials, and numerous species of birds.
A shorter gestation period is something that evolved due to our larger brain sizes and upright locomotion. Bipedalism restricts the width of the birth canal and therefore the size of the babies that can pass through it.
- Humans were never monkeys. That is a common myth. We just shared a common ancestor.
Australopithecines were the first hominins (human, human relative/ancestor). The homo genus (Homo Habilis (said to be the earliest homo), Homo erectus and eventually us - Homo sapiens) was derived from the genus Australopithecines, which has previously split from the genus Pan (chimpanzee).
There were many different genus of Homo, and it took millions of years before Homo sapiens appeared. So if you're waiting for a species to drastically evolve, you'll be waiting a LONG time! lol
Excellent post.
In a previous life, I was a middle school science teacher for a few years, so I like all science (well, astrophysics is pretty hard for me to get my brain around), and paleontology and evolutionary biology are the most fascinating for me.
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9 hours ago, Mango said:
It isn't just why would NASA lie, or look at pictures. The flat earth thing is particularly strange because the physics on how we literally move about our day is predicated on the very foundation that the earth is round. Next time somebody says they think the earth is flat "because research" ask them to redefine physics"
IDIOTS
But you are spot on. People think this way about all sorts of stuff and it is incredibly dangerous, because it is impossible to fight. All you we can do is make sure we educate their kids better than they were, and wait for them to die.
BINGO. People are free to believe whatever stupid manure they want to believe. As long as they don't try to pass this crap off as history (moon landing) or science (flat earth) and/or teach it in schools, I have no problem with them proving to the world that they're stupider than your average bovine.
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Heads up, NASCAR fans:
The NASCAR Monster Energy race at Atlanta Motor Speedway today has been moved up to 1 pm EST from 2:15 pm because of the threat of rain. The race is on FOX.
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8 hours ago, KD in CA said:
You're laughably stupid if you don't understand the difference between how media was run 40 years ago vs today. But....carry on.
Because I do know how the media was run 40 or 50 years ago and much earlier, why I wrote what I wrote. The media has never presented news that is "pure" going back to the beginning of the republic. Remember learning (hearing about?) the Alien and Sedition Acts passed in the 1790s? Well, the Sedition Act was an attempt by the federal government to control anti-government propaganda masquerading as news. William Randolph Hearst built a newspaper empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries based on sensationalized -- and not all that rarely -- "manufactured" -- news. Hearst's "yellow journalism" helped push the US into declaring war on Spain in 1898 and helped sabotaged American participation in the League of Nations after WW I.
Prior to 1970s, especially during the height of the Cold War, the print and broadcast media practiced "self-censorship" in which it did not publish or broadcast news that it deemed "detrimental" to the national interest. Consequently, the American public was kept ignorant of the fact that JFK had staffers bring prostitutes into the White House or that more and more young Americans were being sent to fight and die in the jungles of SE Asia or that blacks in most of the Deep South lived under a reign of terror. Those weren't things that the media didn't know about; they were things that the media didn't report. Sometimes news suppression happened because of government pressure but it often happened because media outlets voluntarily suppressed stories that were deemed "inappropriate", primarily because of their political consequences.
So much for the "pure" media of the past.
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32 minutes ago, KD in CA said:
Well there is one group to blame for that. Perhaps if the mainstream media went back to simply reporting facts instead of their current business model of for-profit propaganda and agenda pushing, there would be fewer people who refuse to believe anything they report.
But yeah, the general level of ignorance is frightening. I once worked with a woman who simply refused to believe we had landed on the moon (and this was 30 years after it happened). She just couldn't fathom the possibility of space travel.
Pot meet kettle. Blaming "the mainstream media" for not "simply reporting facts" is the perpetual whine of those who don't a know the difference between fact and opinion and don't like to hear facts that don't fit their own agendas ... but carry on.
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2 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:
It sounds like it was just a plan to ease the burden next year. It’s a 2 year bridge deal. It’s just odd to me that a team with an open Super Bowl window would go with a bridge guy when the QB is the only thing holding them back.
Other than Cousins, what realistic options do they have? A rookie is going to take a year or two to come up to speed ... if he's any good at all, and by then the window's already closing. No other FA is as good as Bortles was last season. IMO, it's taking the devil they know rather than gambling on the one they don't... they liked the improvement that Bortles made last season enough to want to see more of him, but they aren't quite convinced he's the real deal, so they worked out a deal that gives both of them a reasonable deal for 3 more years. They're weren't willing to cut Bortles loose but they also weren't willing to give a fat contract without having more confidence that Bortles' turn around is for real.
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So, what are some "native" Canadian food -- ie, developed in Canada, not imported with immigration settlers? The only thing I can think of is poutine.
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5 minutes ago, KW95 said:
Its all BS...so stop talking about this stuff!
Catholics are still waiting: its been over 2000 years!
That's the Jews who are still waiting for the Messiah.
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52 minutes ago, joesixpack said:
Hey while you’re at it how about mocking Muslim belief too? No?
Muslims consider parts of the Old Testament and the Gospels as Holy Scripture ... and not all Christians, including the billions who adhere to the Roman Catholic Church, believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible and/or disavow evolution. The Catholic Church reconciled its doctrine on creation with the theory of evolution in the 1890s.
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40 minutes ago, arcane said:
You should hear what these people, and closely related electric universe "theorists", think about physics and gravity in particular. They don't care what physics says.
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8 minutes ago, kdiggz said:I'm into conspiracy theories but this one is dumb. But if you can wrap your head around everyone being in on covering up the fact that the earth is flat then what are your thoughts on some of the more logical ones? Id really be interested to hear their thoughts. They should round up a bunch of the more famous flat Earth theory guys and do a tv show where they look into other conspiracies and paranormal stuff. I'd watch that!
How is this any stupider than millions of Americans believing that the Earth was created exactly according to the Old Testament and that evolution is a lie?
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A correction on the women's curling gold medal match. It's on NBCSN at 7pm tonight. South Korea vs Sweden.
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2 hours ago, IgotBILLStopay said:
Big question for the Bills: To cut Incognito or not
Huge cap savings but equally crucial player
Maybe solution will be to ask him to rework the deal. so save about 3 mill in cap this year
If you cut Incognito, who's your LG?
Another career backup like Ducasse impersonating a starter?
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The curling match was great! For those who want to watch the replay at a more normal time, I won't give any details on how the US won. All I will say is that it was worth staying up all night to watch. If you want to read about it: US Men Win Curling Gold!
Women's bronze medal curling game (Japan vs Britain) is today, and women's gold medal match (South Korea vs Sweden) is tomorrow.
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13 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
Hes not even 6'1 .. He measured in a little over 6' at the SR Bowl. But he was 216 pound...
hes a little stocky lol
Drew Brees is only 6' and Russell Wilson isn't even 6'. OTOH, Brock Osweiler is like 6'7".
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7 hours ago, buffalobloodfloridahome said:
Mccown is and always has been a journey man QB which means he has been behind some great QBs in the past. He has had some success in the past and has been in so long that I'm sure he could mentor a young QB on being pro and not just on the field play but preparation. Any rookie would love to have a guy sitting next to them helping and really investing in them instead of competing and trying to steal their job.
Aside from a few years in Arizona when he was behind Kurt Warner, McCown has played on qb needy teams as bad or worse than the Bills have been since they sent Flutie packing.
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7 hours ago, billsredneck1 said:
i knew this was coming. you guys are going to have to get used to the idea that tyrod will be gone and peterman will be here next season. i comment on what i see in possibilities with nathan.....kind of looking at what we have instead of making comments about the past.
Unless the Bills sign Cousins or maybe Keenum, I don't think Peterman will be with the Bills when the season starts unless he's still eligible for the practice squad. Whether the Bills keep Tyrod or sign another bridge QB, they'll have a first or second round rookie QB as their backup. There's no way that they will go with a rookie and Peterman.
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On 2/22/2018 at 1:07 PM, Pete said:
which quality QB's have the Bills passed on? I will give you Russel Wilson and Dak. But what other quality QB did we not draft tha last 20 years. The fact is there are not many quality QB's in the NFL
Well, they didn't take Brees or Brady in 2000, and they let Jay Cutler get away in 2006, not to mention Joe Flacco in 2008 and Andy Dalton in 2011.
Of course, they also passed on such gems as Matt Leinart, Josh Freeman, Tim Tebow, Brandon Weeden, Brock Osweiler, Colin Kaepernick, Geno Smith so it pretty much balances out IMO. The only two QBs I'm po'd about the Bills screwing up with were giving up the 2005 first to trade back to take Losman, thus missing out on a shot at Aaron Rodgers, and passing on Russell Wilson for TJ Graham! -
On 2/22/2018 at 7:23 AM, Cubanmist 1 said:
In the eyes of many, 2017 was fairly a good draft for us. However, I believe in my heart of hearts that we should have utilized our first round pick on Deshaun Watson or Patrick Mahomes. We had no business trading our pick to KC knowing that we have a QB issue. Sure, White is a very good CB, but again we had pressing needs. Now, we are faced with the possibility of not being able to draft a good QB this year. What do you’ll think.
Hindsight is always 20-20. IIRC most of TBD was on board with the trade back because they figured the Bills would win 4-5 games and KC would take a major nose dive, too, so the Bills would have 2 picks in the top dozen in 2018. I guess their crystal balls were a bit defective, huh?
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12 minutes ago, eball said:
As much as I'd like to watch it live I think I'll record it and watch when I get up in the morning.
One of the benies of being retired is that I can stay up late and watch live. If the US wins (and maybe if it doesn't), NBC should have the highlights of the game on later tomorrow.
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So, Taylor is so bad that the majority of fans here (and some commentators as well apparently) think that just about any of the has been or never were veteran FA QBs available not named Brees, Cousins or Bradford will be better, but then in the next breath they expect other teams will fall all over themselves to trade for him. That's really stupid, dudes. If Taylor were as useless as the denziens of TBD believe, no team will trade for him -- and if teams are willing to trade for him, maybe the Bills ought to consider keeping him until they at least have 1 QB on the roster better than Nathan Peterman, and preferably 2.
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To those of you making snarky comments, remember that there but for God's grace go you or somebody you love or care about.
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19 hours ago, SoTier said:
The US Curling team skipped by John Schuster just beat the Canadians in the curling semi-finals, advancing to the gold medal round for the first time ever with a 5-3 win.
The US is guaranteed at least a silver for the first time ever. The US plays Sweden on Saturday for the gold. Here's the story: US Curling Semi Finals
The gold medal game in men's curling will began about 1 am tonight. Curling aficionados can look for it on NBC, NBCSN or CNBC.
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On 2/21/2018 at 2:29 PM, LeviF91 said:
Whoever it was is a hero. Geese are the !@#$ing worst.
It probably was a farmer -- the geese likely were stripping out his winter pastures or his winter wheat crop (if that's a crop in Mizzou) ... or a groundskeeper at a golf course or park. A single brood of Canada geese (parents and that year's goslings) that set up residence on your lake shore or pond side can quickly make that part of your yard (and your dock) unusable.
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39 minutes ago, Overdue Bill said:
I think taking a second-tier QB in the 2nd or 3rd rounds would be a better value. I hope we don't trade away our 2 1st rounds picks for a QB. The position is such a crap shoot that we would be better served shoring up the O-Line and the defensive backfield in the first round.
Well, expecting much more than a backup QB from a QB drafted in the 2nd or 3rd round is like putting your money down on the lottery IMO. Between 2000 and 2014, the only mediocre or better starting QBs to come out of Rounds 2-3 of the draft are:
- 2000 - Drew Brees (2)
- 2002 - Josh McCown (3)
- 2004 - Matt Schaub (3)
- 2011 - Andy Dalton (2)
- 2012 - Russsell Wilson (3)
- 2012 - Nick Foles (3)
- 2013 - Mike Glennon (3)
- 2014 - Derek Carr (2)
- 2014 - Jimmy Garoppolo (2)
That's only 25% "success" with setting the bar low enough that McCown and Glennon make the cut (9/36).
If you raise the bar higher and remove those two the success percentage drops to less than 20% (7/36.
Unless the Bills sign Cousins, I wouldn't be good with taking a round 2 or 3 QB unless he was somebody who was considered a first rounder but who fell in the draft for some reason. A better OL would never turn Chad Henne or Brock Osweiler into decent starting QBs.
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the start time for the NASCAR race has now been moved up to 12:30.