Eww... hyper-extend your knee much?

Fuck, as a matter of fact Genji, you're right. We could probably get that number up to a hundred-billion if we just covered the entire surface of the Earth with vertical farms and thorium reactors.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

The carrying capacity for Earth is at least 10 billion humans.
We just broke 7 billion and only 1 billion of us are starving.
And that's only cause greedy wasteful societies like The United States.
Add to that the knowledge that as a country develops, its birth rate tends to level off or decline even.
Human population will level off as well. 12 billion maybe?
Add to that, sustainable technologies and philosophies like vertical indoor farms, thorium reactors and permaculture.
7 billion+ humans really doesn't seems that dangerous for Earth or ourselves.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
This has nothing to do with overpopulation... move along.



That's exactly my point. Why are people so goddamn defensive about overpopulation? What use could we possibly have for filling the earth to "carrying capacity?"

Yeah, there are pranks, and then there are stupid, inappropriate, un-funny-bad-ideas...

eia?

>> ^Payback:

Animators should use this for cues to animate big things breaching the water.


Yeah right, I can hear it now: "I loved that movie, but the iceberg moved so slow. It was totally unrealistic."

This has nothing to do with overpopulation... move along.

This is hilarious.

I love that at this point, the "punch in the stomach" moment has received far more attention than the "putting the baby in the garbage disposal" moment.

...Priorities.

If you think about it though, this is kind of the ideal situation:

You have a guy who openly tells the world via youtube that he deals marijuana. People show up to rob him. Nobody gets hurt, it's a completely peaceful situation, with no violent retaliation except to post the video and show the world an indefensible example of the type of people these guys really are.

I know people who have been beaten in front of their families for their weed. I also know people who have been killed for it. It's crazy.

Reality check!

From Wikipedia: "...the fur hosts two species of symbiotic cyanobacteria, which provide camouflage.[3][4] Because of the cyanobacteria, sloth fur is a small ecosystem of its own, hosting many species of non-parasitic insects..."

On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" "What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?" He answered: " `Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, `Love your neighbor as yourself.' " "You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live." But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" In reply Jesus said:

"A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. `Look after him,' he said, `and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'

"Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?" The expert in the law replied, "The one who had mercy on him." Jesus told him, "Go and do likewise."

(Luke 10:25-37, NIV)

Reminds me of NBA Jam.

Well this is just bizarre. I went to high-school my freshman year but that's it. I stayed enrolled but the only two classes I attended for the next two years were video productions and drama, and even those were a "sometimes" thing.

It took them until the end of my junior year to finally kick me out of school, and even then I could've probably stayed if I really wanted. That whole time, I only really got in trouble maybe two or three times, and that was only when someone directly caught me off campus.

As far as I know, my high school GPA still stands at 0.05. And this girl goes to jail for a few classes?

"Put a scratch in my record..."

No... I am not kidding you.