Which is the more important discovery?

finchy
finchy Posts: 6,686
edited April 2009 in The bottom bracket
Just read about the beans :):)

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  • pdstsp
    pdstsp Posts: 1,264
    Having them on toast for tea after a couple of hours on the bike tonight. Can't do that with gravity or evolution can you?
  • Kenjaja1
    Kenjaja1 Posts: 744
    It is obviously gravity. If we had no gravity we would have had to "evolve" sticky feet PDQ to stop us floating off to the other side of the milky way.

    Baked beans would make some of us want to float off to the other side of the milky way and, for some people, beans would make it possible to jet off to the other side of the milky way. For those of us who do not eat baked beans the thought of baked bean-eaters being on the far side of the universe is a very welcoming one as it would simplify the evolution of air-breathing
  • Barrie_G
    Barrie_G Posts: 479
    Evolution and gravity, their effect on my life doesn't change if I know about their discovery or not, but that baked beans can be used as 1 of my 5 a day well it's such a load off my mind:D
  • Finbar Saunders
    Finbar Saunders Posts: 299
    We wouldn't have baked beans without evolution, and it would be pretty messy getting them onto toast without gravity. I say evolution, because in the absence of gravity they probably would evolve to stick to toast.
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  • Barkiesnake
    Barkiesnake Posts: 244
    No contest

    evolution gave us george w bush
    gravity gives us road rash when we fall over
    beans on the other hand give us carbs, protein, fibre


    oh yeah, and wind
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  • jimycooper
    jimycooper Posts: 740
    we dont actualy need to know about gravity and evolution, yeah sure it's helpful but the fact that BAKED BEANS COULNT AS ONE OF YOUR 5 A DAY is essential!!!
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Barkiesnake wrote:
    evolution gave us george w bush

    I think that can be chalked up as one of evolution's failures. I wonder what the odds are of him one day getting a Darwin award?
  • chuckcork
    chuckcork Posts: 1,471
    Is the suggestion that gravity, evolution or indeed bakes beans, didn't exist before they were "discovered"?

    What did people do then before hand, float about reproducing asexually, while eating something else?
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,719
    johnfinch wrote:
    Barkiesnake wrote:
    evolution gave us george w bush

    I think that can be chalked up as one of evolution's failures. I wonder what the odds are of him one day getting a Darwin award?
    Zero. He's reproduced.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    whyamihere wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Barkiesnake wrote:
    evolution gave us george w bush

    I think that can be chalked up as one of evolution's failures. I wonder what the odds are of him one day getting a Darwin award?
    Zero. He's reproduced.

    Good point.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    chuckcork wrote:
    Is the suggestion that gravity, evolution or indeed bakes beans, didn't exist before they were "discovered"?

    No, I just needed a couple of important scientific discoveries (By which I mean man's understanding of these natural laws) to contrast with the flippancy of the baked beans for the desired comic effect.
  • on the road
    on the road Posts: 5,631
    Gravity is the most important discovery, because if it hadn't of been discovered then we would of been flung off into space :P
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    Barkiesnake wrote:
    evolution gave us george w bush

    If I was Charles Darwin and I saw George W Bush, I would either have torn up my thesis or started to work out how man could devolve back into apes. :lol:
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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    whyamihere wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Barkiesnake wrote:
    evolution gave us george w bush

    I think that can be chalked up as one of evolution's failures. I wonder what the odds are of him one day getting a Darwin award?
    Zero. He's reproduced.

    I so wish his dad and mom hadn't bothered.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Sirius631 wrote:
    Barkiesnake wrote:
    evolution gave us george w bush

    If I was Charles Darwin and I saw George W Bush, I would either have torn up my thesis or started to work out how man could devolve back into apes. :lol:

    Oi! Don't insult the apes! :wink:
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Evolution, because if it hadn't have been discovered we'd be typing with webbed fingers (sorry citizens of Norwich). :mrgreen:
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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Sirius631 wrote:
    Barkiesnake wrote:
    evolution gave us george w bush

    If I was Charles Darwin and I saw George W Bush, I would either have torn up my thesis or started to work out how man could devolve back into apes. :lol:

    Or, indeed, after much head-scratching try to fathom how apes devolved into George W. Bush [1].

    David

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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    DavidBelcher wrote:
    ...
    [1] See also: http://www.bushorchimp.com/
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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Kenjaja1 wrote:
    It is obviously gravity. If we had no gravity we would have had to "evolve" sticky feet PDQ to stop us floating off to the other side of the milky way.

    Baked beans would make some of us want to float off to the other side of the milky way and, for some people, beans would make it possible to jet off to the other side of the milky way. For those of us who do not eat baked beans the thought of baked bean-eaters being on the far side of the universe is a very welcoming one as it would simplify the evolution of air-breathing

    Whether gravity was "discovered" or not is irrelevant, it was already there and would still be there.
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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Kenjaja1 wrote:
    It is obviously gravity. If we had no gravity we would have had to "evolve" sticky feet PDQ to stop us floating off to the other side of the milky way.

    Baked beans would make some of us want to float off to the other side of the milky way and, for some people, beans would make it possible to jet off to the other side of the milky way. For those of us who do not eat baked beans the thought of baked bean-eaters being on the far side of the universe is a very welcoming one as it would simplify the evolution of air-breathing

    Whether gravity was "discovered" or not is irrelevant, it was already there and would still be there.
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    spen666 wrote:
    Kenjaja1 wrote:
    It is obviously gravity. If we had no gravity we would have had to "evolve" sticky feet PDQ to stop us floating off to the other side of the milky way.

    Baked beans would make some of us want to float off to the other side of the milky way and, for some people, beans would make it possible to jet off to the other side of the milky way. For those of us who do not eat baked beans the thought of baked bean-eaters being on the far side of the universe is a very welcoming one as it would simplify the evolution of air-breathing

    Whether gravity was "discovered" or not is irrelevant, it was already there and would still be there.

    Yes, but understanding it is a great help to putting satellites into orbit
  • wolleur
    wolleur Posts: 30
    If it wasn't for gravity we'd all be riding single speed fixies.

    Or sturmey archer 3 speed hubs.
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  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    I discover Gravity on every hill. :(
    The older I get the faster I was
  • on the road
    on the road Posts: 5,631
    So do I :P
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    johnfinch wrote:
    whyamihere wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Barkiesnake wrote:
    evolution gave us george w bush

    I think that can be chalked up as one of evolution's failures. I wonder what the odds are of him one day getting a Darwin award?
    Zero. He's reproduced.

    Good point.

    Maybe you could argue that he was going for the biggie with his attitude to global warming?

    And war.
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