Topic: Let the Pandas Die! (Read 5754 times)

Transportation · « **Reply #20 on:** September 23, 2009, 05:55:09 PM »

itt massive naturalistic fallacy

alternatively

WHY ARE WE SAVING PANDAS INSTEAD OF SAVING THE STARVING, CHINA?!

Oh right you're technically doing that with your massive capital investment programs. CARRY ON.

Ocksi · « **Reply #21 on:** September 23, 2009, 06:21:02 PM »

Pandas also have some very interesting traits that give great reason to keep them around, if only to study.

One example is that females can become impregnated, but keep the embryo from growing for a period of months to avoid a situation where having the cub would be detrimental, such as a bad season or a drought.

Also, without pandas, what will keep the extremely fast-growing bamboo in check????? there's a forest of it in my back yard, spreading daily, consuming the lawn. I need a panda back there to keep up with it!

Misha · « **Reply #22 on:** September 23, 2009, 06:30:58 PM »

if we want to save the pandas we should stop these half assed breeding programs and just out and out clone them. Not only would that increase their population much more reliably but it would open up the possibility of genetically engineered pigmy pandas that you could keep as pets.

Detonator · « **Reply #23 on:** September 23, 2009, 06:41:06 PM »

How do you think cloning works?

TA · « **Reply #24 on:** September 23, 2009, 06:42:59 PM »

I'm guessing involving the direct manipulation of genetic material to form fetal cells, which would make it (relatively) simple to insert a couple "and fuck with them thusly" steps?

Transportation · « **Reply #25 on:** September 23, 2009, 06:46:14 PM »

China is actually using a Panda artificial insemination program that is netting good results.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #26 on:** September 23, 2009, 07:21:24 PM »

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Pandas are no longer thought to be part of the Raccoon family. Scientists have backtracked once again and have now gone back to saying they are part of the Ursus (bear) family.

What are the practical applications of this? I mean, how is the fact that pandas are a member of the bear or raccoon family useful?

Mongrel · « **Reply #27 on:** September 23, 2009, 07:28:30 PM »

There are no practical applications at all!

I suppose it means something to people trying to place the Panda in it's exact place in evolutionary history... but that's not the funny answer!

EDIT: no tiny text plz -det

Ocksi · « **Reply #28 on:** September 23, 2009, 07:33:37 PM »

Quote from: mce on September 23, 2009, 07:21:24 PM

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Pandas are no longer thought to be part of the Raccoon family. Scientists have backtracked once again and have now gone back to saying they are part of the Ursus (bear) family.
What are the practical applications of this? I mean, how is the fact that pandas are a member of the bear or raccoon family useful?

Useful for determining certain aspects of their biology, as well as genetic traits. And a huge part of evolutionary sciences is tracing evolutionary lines to see where species emerge.

An example of how this science is neat is the compound creatures you see in the deep ocean, which contain two entirely different evolutionary lines, an idea thought impossible a quarter century ago.

The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji · « **Reply #29 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:03:22 PM »

Quote from: Catloaf on September 23, 2009, 05:28:06 PM

If that doesn't make you weepy-eyed, you're either a horrible person or are in desperate need of a trip to SeaWorld.

I just fail to empathize with people carrying on about this particular hunt, at least. Compare 10-20 thousand dolphins killed in a once-a-year hunt to however many cows we kill to get fat on every single day, and I have trouble getting upset (at least, I'm sure we eat more cows than the Japanese eat dolphins. What say you, stat monkeys?).

It's basically the Dennis Leary argument. Cutesy animals like dolphins and sea otters are on the fast-track for protection while the less cutesy animals like cows are instantly turned into hamburgers and baseball gloves... though the cuteness of cows could be debated, now that I think of it.

NOW WAIT JUST A MINUTE... wait, nevermind, I actually am terrible. Save the pandas. And the cows.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #30 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:14:53 PM »

I hate the people who try to equate animals hunted for sport with livestock raised for food.

Detonator · « **Reply #31 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:42:04 PM »

I could make the argument that because dolphins are more intelligent than cows, it should be less acceptable to slaughter them, but then I would be a hypocrite for being okay with slaughtering pigs, who have been shown to be at least as intelligent as dogs.

Also Yoji, you can't seriously equate the controlled, humane slaughter of cows to the slaughter in Taiji (warning: kinda disturbing pictures, but not extremely gruesome).

patito · « **Reply #32 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:44:47 PM »

See, the problem here, is that if we eat so many cows daily, it is obvious to any individual (not to yoji) that we are not in danger of running out of cows any time soon, so if we were to start breeding pandas for eating, if that was even possible, then we could eat pandas and nobody would be objecting to that.

Brentai · « **Reply #33 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:45:42 PM »

Cows are

A) Not endangered
B) Not a part of any non-man-made ecosystem
C) Delicious.

Lady Duke · « **Reply #34 on:** September 23, 2009, 08:47:01 PM »

Funny. I was just reading about this in /an/ on 4chan.

Büge · « **Reply #35 on:** September 24, 2009, 11:46:52 AM »

Quote from: Brentai on September 23, 2009, 08:45:42 PM

Cows are

A) Not endangered
B) Not a part of any non-man-made ecosystem
C) Delicious.
D) Yandere.

Niku · « **Reply #36 on:** September 24, 2009, 12:15:01 PM »

those overalls

Zaratustra · « **Reply #37 on:** September 24, 2009, 12:25:32 PM »

Quote from: Shinra on September 23, 2009, 03:07:04 PM

So why haven't Pandas died out yet? They're really big carnivores. That's the only thing that has really saved them.

You forgot they're cute. Being cute is a great evolutionary advantage in the human age.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwiJFpcGNgg

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #38 on:** September 24, 2009, 12:46:13 PM »

Twatted? Is... is that a verb, now?

Zaratustra · « **Reply #39 on:** September 24, 2009, 12:50:15 PM »

I have twatted.

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