His wife was on that plane and he was concerned about her welfare. Why would he joke about emergency preparedness of a plane on which his wife was flying? That doesn't make sense to joke about that; I'm convinced he was sincere.

*happy

Damn it. Someone already did.

Yeah, though. That's it. Monkeysphere! Fuck it! We're all monkeys, man!>> ^ReverendTed:

>> ^zombieater:
Once this community grows too large, people don't know each other and they become strangers.I think you're describing the Monkeysphere.

>> ^Jinx:

Its not just the cute fluffy mammals which are crucial to ecossytems and possible hold the keys to further discovery. I don't feel sorry for the spider, I have no empathy towards it at all but we still have a responsibility to at least study it and its habitat BEFORE we build a road over it and possible extinguish any chance of discovery for good. The road can wait a little longer when concerning an organism that took millions of years to evolve.
Who knows, one day when we're building things out of spider silk you might be glad we took the time to study this rare arachnid


Precisely. Let's not assume that a species is useless only a few seconds after realizing that it existed at all. Moreover, one should not make assumptions when one has zero biological background whatsoever.

You don't know what it eats. You don't know what eats it. You don't know its importance to its ecosystem. It could be a keystone species, an indicator species, an endemic species, or one of a hundred other important parts of a complex network of organisms. Do your research and then make conclusions. Not the other way around.

I think that having a close knit community also erases much of that anonymity in that you create your own personality online so-to-speak. In some cases, such as @gorillaman and @chingalera pointed out, that personality is almost identical to the real-life one. In others it is not. However, in either case, you are known by your peers, you have online "friends", and communicate with one another. As in any social sphere, there are societal consequences for negative action - being ostracized, shunned, or reprimanded, either by your peers or the controlling power(s).

Once this community grows too large, people don't know each other and they become strangers. This happens in real life - the difference between a small town and a big city, for example. In these cities, once you have strangers, crime increases as the social fabric and responsibility that one feels to ones neighbors disappears. I feel that the same thing occurs in online communities once they become too large.

Man, I should write this up.

I think that it's easier to state that comments can be contained and monitored for abuse when one is doing so on a (relatively) small scale such as videosift. But imagine if the site ballooned to 10x - 50x the size of what it is now (e.g. Youtube or Yahoo!) with the same proportional increase in comments, ratings, and disagreements. Would it still be possible to maintain such a utopian vision?

I believe that there is a critical mass at which too many bad apples get through and their filth becomes too burdensome to monitor. Other users become jaded and also start abusing the system because they see others getting away with murder. Let's hope that never happens here.

>> ^Chaucer:

>> ^zombieater:
>> ^Chaucer:
That spider does shit for the bio diversity. One spider or even 10 spiders dont affect anything. They should just kill it and put it out of its misery.

Neither do you. Is that a valid argument to kill you as well?

Wow. show your ignorance and hate. Here's a helpful suggestion for you.... Kill yourself before your spread.


*MY* ignorance and hate? I repeated your OWN statement back at you. If you can't respect other life, why should anyone respect yours?

>> ^Chaucer:

That spider does shit for the bio diversity. One spider or even 10 spiders dont affect anything. They should just kill it and put it out of its misery.


Neither do you. Is that a valid argument to kill you as well?

Now that's a rare spider! It exists in only one county in the world - that one!

*dead

So why did it occur on Mars and not Earth? Not satisfied.

*nsfw for the ending

>> ^johncusick2:

grrrrrrrrrr NOT a hologram!


Care to elaborate?

I wonder what would happen if some pizza parlor owner attempted to lift up Mitt Romney.

*promote. Brilliant.