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By: Sadly, No! » My Christmas gift

Sadly, No! » My Christmas gift — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:51:12 +0000

[...] this fine classic of wingnuttery from James D. Miller, the TechCentralStation columnist last seen here warning about China’s plans to create a master-race of baby Einsteins within the next 10 [...]

By: wordyeti

wordyeti — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:02:26 +0000

Thailand’s sinister photon cannon nano-clone teleporter vampires.

A thread with this AND an oblique reference to the Venture Brothers? Nice.

The sad thing is, if Skinemax had a cheapo sci-fi movie starring some teleporting vampires with photon cannon … I’d probably watch it. No doubt it’d start Caspar Van Dien and Catherine Oxenburg (friend of mine on the biz side of production said that their “number” is down to about $75K these days, less if they’re taken as a package deal), and Eric Roberts as the bad guy.

By: fish

fish — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:17:11 +0000

uh oh, ann’s gonna be mad.

By: Ann Althouse

Ann Althouse — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:16:42 +0000

You know, I really hate it when there are 1000 top six most intelligent people.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:42:26 +0000

U(:)bermenschen

I’m holding out for Flubbermenschen.

By: bernie

bernie — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:15:08 +0000

I linked to your article from A Thousand Chinese Einsteins Every Year - if they are Jewish

By: A Thousand Chinese Einsteins Every Year - if they are Jewish | The HILL Chronicles

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:31:43 +0000

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By: Duros62

Duros62 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:23:11 +0000

Wingnuts trying to breed a more intelligent society?

If they succeeded, it would result in a liberal society.
D’oh!

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:18:06 +0000

…other fiendish plans by the Yellow Peril, such as the North Korean outer-space mind control lasers, the giant warbots of Japan, and T….

Don’t forget the sharks with the frikkin’ laser beams on their heads.

By: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Phoenician in a time of Romans — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:24:58 +0000

Hey, leave my prostate out of it.

I never touched your prostate. I would have, but your check bounced, you deadbeat.

By: Bene Gesserit

Bene Gesserit — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:02:57 +0000

Breeding for geniuses? Is that all?

Why not try for the Kwisatz Haderach? The chance of that working out is probably the same.

By: bjacques

bjacques — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:23:17 +0000

The Carlsons and the Kagans are already on this. Once again, private initiative shows the way. At least *some* people aren’t letting those latter-day Dr. Fu Manchus catch us napping!

By: rz

rz — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:44:07 +0000

U(:)bermenschen

By: kiki

kiki — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:06:34 +0000

Wingnuts trying to breed a more intelligent society? As level of intelligence is inversely proportional to level of wingnuttery, that’s a case of “Be careful what you wish for” if ever I saw one.

Hell, if they ever get it off the ground, I’ll donate.

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:25:21 +0000

I was wondering how they were going to go about getting a billion viable embryos. A billion sperm, fuck, you could get in half an hour and make $50 too boot. But healthy eggs, even if you pump the chick full of fertility drugs, you could probably only hope for maybe a dozen in a good week. Assuming a base population of fewer then 500 Million Chinese women, only, say, 200 million in the healthy age, and that number keeps getting whittled down smaller and smaller as you factor location, availability, suitability, and so on until you get maybe a million- potential donars; that’s a LOT of moon cycles to get though for that Billion Baby March.

And what in the hell is so interesting about WOMEN, lobbey?
*flee*

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:08:11 +0000

I believe that with good early nutrition and an environment conductive to learning, any child can be if not necessarily “genius” at least fairly intelligent. It’s not like the world needs a ton of geniuses to advance. You just need some people willing to think.

By: lobbey

lobbey — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:19:23 +0000

Well, bear in mind that we’re only taking ‘good at programming = SUPAR GENIUS’ as axiomatic because it fits our society’s fairly dumb stereotypes.

yeah, that pisses me off too, like those f*cken ‘child prodigy’, some poor arsed 12 year old that has been home schooled or raised by geeks and is able to get to Oxford or Harvard. Genius does not mean that someone is only smart at one or two things, that strikes as more geeky than smart, having compassion and understanding should be a pre-requisite for being called smart.

In my field of engineering, there are a lot of genius type of people (I’m not one of them, i should point out), who are barely able to operate in normal society and have little or no comprehension about the effects of their work. If you sit in a bar with engineers, you’ll notice the type, they are only able to talk animatedly about their own subject, to the exclusion of anything interesting, like football, women, drink, etc

By: "Oh Stewardess, I Speak 'Nut"

"Oh Stewardess, I Speak 'Nut" — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:14:17 +0000

Pop Quiz, Hotshot:

1. “Conservatives” are to “intelligence”, as:
A: China is to personal freedom and individual liberty.
B. Rush Limbaugh is to Vietnam-era military service.
C: outer space is to clean air.
D. bacon is to play-doh.
Answer: E. All of the above.

By: Spiders Everywhere

Spiders Everywhere — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:52:08 +0000

But what if a billion Chinese superbabies all jumped off chairs at the same time?

WHAT THEN?

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:21:28 +0000

Just a quick calculation tells me that in order to get through 1billion embryos a year, China would have to check somewhere around 31 embryos a second. If it takes more than one second to scan a single embryo, they can’t pull it off.