Are we really so egotitsical?
 

[url]http://phys.org/news/2014-10-absolute-copper-cube-chillingly.html[/url][quote]... the coldest cubic meter in the universe for over 15 days ...[/quote]How do they know that? Did they visit every place in the universe simultaneously for a continuous period of 15 days? :no::alien:

[url]http://themetapicture.com/guy-receives-a-text-scam/[/url]

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Priceless!

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Maybe this one is better:
[url]http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/gumtree-user-conned-out-of-a-playstation-and-gets-revenge/story-fnjwnhzf-1226859078428[/url]

[url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/20/paul-mccarthy-butt-plug-sculpture-paris-rightwing-backlash]Paul McCarthy ‘butt plug’ sculpture in Paris provokes rightwing backlash[/url] | The Guardian
[quote]craazyman
[url=http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/links-102114.html#comment-2338714]October 21, 2014 at 12:49 pm[/url]

that inflatable butt plug doesn’t look like a “sculpture” to me. It looks like a cartoon tree from Scooby Doo — that fly by in the background when the gang is running from a haunted house with their arms stretched out and fingers waving, screaming “bwaaaaaaaaaa bwaaaaaaaaaa”.

What is that thing doing in Paris anyway? A sculpture shouldn’t be inflatable. You can have an inflatable butt plug (I wouldn’t know), but not an inflatable sculpture. A sculpture needs to be hard.

What would Rodin say if he saw that thing? Oh man. I bet they didn’t deflate it cause it’s a butt plug, I bet they deflated it because it’s an offense to the world of sculptury. Now, if the sculpture had made a butt plug out of chisled marble, something like Rodin could have done, everything would have been OK.

The hard part would be coming up with a proper artistic gesture for a butt plug to model into the sculpture. The live model has advantages that nature morte lacks, when it comes to sculpture. It would be an artistic challenge for sure. You could emphasize the shape and intended motion, but that would be sort of obvious. If somebody pulled it off, it would be worthy. worthy of Paris even. You’d see all sorts of hot art girls sitting around contemplating the butt plug. Writing essays for gallery publications. Speaking in hushed reverential tones about the sculptor’s control over the medium, the evocation, the ironical distancing, the metaphor for cultural issues too taboo to treat in accepted public discourse. They’d be proud. They wouldn’t want to give it back to America, or wherever it came from. Somebody would sit on it, no doubt. It would be a scandal.[/quote]
On first reading the headline I thought it said "Paul McCartney", figured maybe it was some kind of weird, kinky Beatles "replugged" (the opposite of unplugged, natch) reunion tour thing. On realizing my reading miscomprehension, I feel like a right [strike]butt plug[/strike] dildo. My sincerest apologies to Sir Paul and the rest of the surviving lads for the mistake.

Now, I have a mental image of Rodin studying alternate "sit on it" conceptions for [i]The Thinker[/i]. Would such sort of "alternate seating" be conducive to thinking? One wonders.

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[QUOTE=retina;385712][url]http://phys.org/news/2014-10-absolute-copper-cube-chillingly.html[/url]How do they know that? Did they visit every place in the universe simultaneously for a continuous period of 15 days? :no::alien:[/QUOTE]

The average temperature of deep space is 450 times greater than the reported temperature.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;385740]The average temperature of deep space is 450 times greater than the reported temperature.[/QUOTE]True. But unrelated to my comment.

[size=1][color=grey]Hint: Look at my second smiley.[/color][/size]

Outdated but still....

[QUOTE]"Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is. Wouldn't it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can't transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It's just something to think about." [/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_09/020014.php[/url]

Sadly, he has only moved up in the world of politics and is now a Congressman. At least I'm not from Texas though I'm not sure Kansas is even a fraction of a step better with the esteemed brain dead chimpanzee we have in the governor's chair.

May God/Allah/The Flying Spaghetti Monster/Curtis Cooper save us all.

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