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- HeaDiggrNCharge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+64Where's Splinter when you really need him?
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -6/+38Guy: "So what're you gonna do with those plastic rings"
Fat kid: "ummmmmmmm"
(Guy does cutting motion)
Fat kid "ummmmmmmm"
Fat kid's little brother: "cut them!"
I hate stupid fat kids... - thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37He was fighting off master shredder.
- shikaga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Yes, but the turtle wont pass that trait on to it's off spring, therefore it is not evolution, just adaption to suit it's surroundings.
- troon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26@VSKBadCRC
What? I don't think evolution is what you think it is. - scheper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23"Those plastic bags actually degrade in sunlight."
I kept wondering why my bags just disappeared into thin air as I walked home. - Sell, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25That's pretty sad, especially when you see the way he walks. Who uses those 6 pack things anymore these days? ECOSINNERS!!!!
- ViceVirtue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20No, he didn't evolve, he didn't do anything special... just grew, like trees which grow around and encompass fence posts (I'm an Aussie). In the same way as you can bend trees as they grow to shape them, you can do the likewise with more concious living beings.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Which, when it goes floating out to sea, will be scooped up and promptly choked on by a pelican.
- noodhoog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Ninjapirate350 - you also, to some degree, have the wrong idea about evolution. What you are talking about is Lamarckism (the passing on of acquired traits, such as the loss of the hand you describe) which, while it does happen, is only a very small and specialised subset of the evolutionary mechanism. Just cutting off your hand, no matter how many generations did it repeatedly, would not cause genetic change. A "no hand" gene might eventually emerge by unrelated chance, and as people no longer cared about having that hand, would be allowed to continue.. but it would not have been caused by people removing their hands.
I'm not sure whether you already know this, and I'm just misinterpreting you, as you already made the point about it needing to be genetic, but for anyone who needs it, here's a brief rundown of evolution:
Evolution really consists of two systems.
The first is change - mutation being the most well known, but certainly not the only form of change. These changes are genetic, occur between generations (a new born baby has these changes), and can be good, bad, or indifferent.
The second mechanism is the 'filtering' of these changes. There is nothing intelligent or deliberate going on here, it is merely that if your particular set of changes make it easier for you to pass on your genes (and therefore those changes) by having offspring, then your genes will prosper.
Consider a species of animals living in a very cold climate. They have a moderately thick fur coat, and their survival rate is fairly low because they have to eat a lot of food to keep warm, and hunting is difficult for them.
If one day a pup is born with very thin, or almost no fur, then it probably won't survive long enough to have offspring itself, so that genetic line - the "thin fur" line, doesn't really go anywhere. It's a dead end.
If on the other hand, one day a pup is born with genes for thicker fur (and remember, this is purely by chance, it's not happening "because they are in a cold climate"), then it will have an advantage over the others. It will retain its body heat better, and need to spend less time hunting, be at less risk of starvation, and have more time to seek out partners to mate with. Result: It has tons of offspring, and most, if not all, of those have the 'thick fur' gene. They then have similar success, and before you know it, the thick furs are the most common type of this species.
On the other hand, if the same happend in a race of animals where fur thickness didn't make any difference to their survival chances at all, then you would find some with thick fur, some with thin, etc, as they'd all have the same chances of passing on their genes.
To sum up, then... it's really about two things.
Firstly a random change occurs
If that change is beneficial it tends to survive and prosper, otherwise it gets weeded out. - j0c1f3r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Learn how to play with a computer or go back to your xbox.....chop chop
- shikaga, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Perhaps instead of cutting them they just shouldn't be thrown into the sea
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -24/+36I'm tired of hearing about him for today.
George Bush is a ***** *****.
There, I said it. Its established. Now can we move on for a 24 hour period? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16I wish those six pack rings could wrap around some of my friends egos
- hexdoll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12No, this is what happens when you do a similar thing to a human.
http://images.google.com/images?q=Cathie+Jung&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tightlacing - schleufer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13This turtle just happened to be a freak accident. Usually the animal ends of strangling itself, or getting the rings caught in something so that it starves to death, becomes easy prey, dehydrates or drowns. Regardless how often it occurs, these can be avoided if people just use their brain.
- dojobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I'm surprised the rings aren't banned in the US yet. We banned them years ago in Australia.
There are so many alternatives around that there really is no excuse to continue using them. - shikaga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Who said it didn't? It just seems really cruel that this animal had to suffer from Mankind's thoughtlessness.
- jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13walk home at night instead
- FatPat, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20Sad.
The beverage companies need to put six-packs in particle board like they do with twelve-packs and cases. It ain't rocket science.
Who the hell else buys these things anyway, besides rednecks on their way to the car wash? - zeldafan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10So sad, hopefully she'll grow out (at least a some) now that the rings are gone.
And yes, the turtle is a she, I watched the video. - synd, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12I feel bad for your lack of typing skills.
- commandar!, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Crazy. I was just thinking today about how when I was a kid they were telling us to cut these things up so ducks wouldn't get caught in them. It also occurred to me how, years later, it seems like I was the only one still doing it. Good to know I haven't been crazy all these years after all.
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It doesn't matter often it happens. The fact is that it doesn't need to happen at all! It's not hard to recycle/throw away your trash.
- Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@xenoandroid
"I'm not saying go out of your way to nuke wales for no reason"
Oh great! So now you're saying Wales harbours terrorists or something?!? Bloody Americans want to attack countries at the drop of a hat!! What did we ever do to you?!?!? :) - AlexApetrei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is exactly why i buy bottled beer, it tastes better and it dosent make turtles look like the women on the streets of Kent.
- ninjapirate350, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@VSKBadCRC
You've got the wrong definition of evolution, my friend.
What you are thinking of is adaptation, the turtle has adapted to live with a 6 pack holder around his body.
Now, it would be evolution if the turtle had babies that were deformed the same way as him.
Evolution requires a genetic change in offspring. For example, if every human started cutting off one of his hands in favor of replacing it with a mechanical hand, then evolution theory states that eventually evolution will cause the body of future generations to stop making a hand and stop the arm at the end of the wrist, it might take hundreds of years to happen, but that's how it works. - INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That really is sad. I've never seen an image of an animal actually affected by those things. Trippy!
- honkyman5000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?" Plastic...*****.
So, the plastic is here, our job is done, we can be phased out now.
-- George Carlin - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9i believe he's reffering to the sterotype of people in the south all having ***** jobs and having to pump gas and work at a car wash for a living.
he should also note, that americans in the northern states also have a reputating for being stupid *****. seems he kind of backs that up with comments like that - shikaga, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11As will you.
- RegisteredUser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This is really sad. I wonder if manufacturers ever plan on making 6-pack rings with corn-based biodegradable plastics instead?
http://www.digg.com/science/Video_of_Biodegradable_Plastic_Water_Bottle_Decomposing - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6xenoandroid your lack of respect for nature really moves me. What do you mean if we cant eat it I dont care?!
I guess if you see a dog you think "worthless waste of space"? - sketchstudios, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8people suck
- CyberFatman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I tend to agree with dojobi (no surprises as I also come from Australia). The problem is simple, whilst everyone might have the best intentions - which is a best case scenario - at the end of the day it happens because they exist.
Better to not have the problem in the first place - get rid of them! - nthpro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Maybe if we put the fat kids in a giant 6 pack ring they would grow up to be skinny....hummmm. I have much to ponder.
- davdav, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Not cool.
- levyjl1988, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5OMG I feel sorry for that turtle, DUGG! Save the enviroment!
- zerblat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Bonsai turtles! (Sorry, someone had to say it).
Anyway, awful stuff. Hopefully this will at least help get rid of those six pack rings (around here, six packs are packed in plastic foil) or at least make them biodegradable.
Still, pretty amazing that the little fellow managed to survive. - geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Who uses those 6 pack things anymore these days?"
They're still used, but not nearly as much as they used to be. Also, if you paid closer attention to the video, you'd have heard that they said the turtle is over 20 years old, so she probably got caught in that thing sometime in the late 1980's. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is true...or come up with something else. I'm mean with today's technology, we should be able to come up with something that is reasonable for business to use and for nature.
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -3/+7Sad indeed. How cute is this little fella.
Unrelated, but I plan to buy myself a turtle soon :-) - demondog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5No I think he's talking about the stereotype of rednecks hanging out at the carwash and drinking on weekend nights.
- shikaga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Dogs can be eaten. But yeah, I totally agree. Just because they can't do anything for them doesn't mean they must suffer for our lack of care with what we do with our surplas refuse. If you don't care about them, just leave them alone, leaving them alone includes not damaging their habitat.
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Solution: push play.
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3OK, this body-mod trend has gone too far!
- GinsuGuy585, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Nah, then they would have fat asses and bitch *****, not just front-butt.
- ninjapirate350, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Turtle Girdle!
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