Philibuster

The universe is way too big a place to have only one little speck filled with life. Even if we are some sort of cosmic accident then the universe is still vast enough that the same accident should have happened elsewhere as well. I just can’t believe that our little solar system is unique enough that there isn’t another star with a similar setup. That’s also assuming that the conditions have to be exactly like ours in order to produce life. I’ve read a lot of articles about how life might be so different from us that we fail to realize that’s it’s actually alive.

This concept intrigues me.

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There are horrible ways to die and there are quick and easy ways to die. If for some reason you decide to exit life stage left then it’s normally a good idea to try for one of the easier to do/quick/painless ways about it. You know pull a trigger and bam you’re done. Cutting your wrists is pretty quick but only if you get a good cut the first time around. Still it is a common method. Stabbing yourself repeatedly with a blunt object is not high on the list of ways I want to die ever. Any method that involves the groin region is also a big DO NOT WANT! Putting the two together is exactly what a window washer did in the UK. If you work as a window washer on the side of a freaking building you don’t need to look very far for a way to kill yourself.

Just jump.

But instead he decided to take a giant, blunt,  souvenir pencil that belonged to his mother and stab himself in the groin until he died from blood loss.

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My keyboard can’t accurately describe my screams when reading this article.

Researchers have found a gene that seems to remove pain from mice when they snip that gene out. The mice still react to heat and pressure though.

One of the biggest problems some people have with eating meat is how horrible the conditions are in the meat factories. Now I love me some meat, enough that regardless I’m going to keep eating it, but I do feel that there is a line that should not be crossed when getting me that meat. Animals do feel pain/fear and there is no question about that. Any method that goes overboard in the slaughter of animals for consumption should be curtailed as to not cause undue suffering.

I believe that slaughter should be quick and clean as possible. Of course however you do it there will be that little problem with the pain aspect. Cost vs efficiency is always a debate with any product or service. Which has lead some scientists to wonder if we are just approaching the subject the wrong way. How about we just bred the animals so they don’t feel pain? If the animal doesn’t feel any pain then it opens up a lot of options for slaughter. There is still the fear aspect but that’s a lot easier to control when the animal just doesn’t feel pain.

Now of course this brings up some interesting points to consider that will probably render this idea to the mental trash can before anything comes out of it. It’s all well and good to make it so the animals don’t feel pain when they die, but they have lives too. Pain, while annoying at best, is a useful tool. It tells us to get the hell out or stop whatever the hell you’re doing because whatever it is, it’s fucking shit up. The care for animals who will happily walk into whatever danger because of a lack of pain, will probably be complicated to say the least. There will be/is the concern about the life condition and mistreatment of the animals. Which is right now a large talking point already. The slaughter houses end up hiring people who don’t really care about the animals and with lacks policy enforcement there will be mistreatment, just like there is now, but with the added difference of the removal of guilt. “Hey I can beat the crap out of this animal because it doesn’t feel pain.” That is not the goal nor something that I would nor do endorse.

In the end I think that this is not really the best option at all. There are too many problems with it and it doesn’t really accomplish what can’t and isn’t already being done. Something that the holier than thou vegans don’t tell you is that not every plant is a hell hole. Most slaughter houses do a fine job on making sure the animals die humanely. I’ve seen videos on various different mass farming plants for many different types of animals and have been quite impressed with with what I’ve seen. I have also seen the bad stuff as well and yeah I agree that kind of stuff should not happen. Not every farmer is a dumb animal hater who just got into the business in order to torture.

Via Io9

What kind of retard puts a bunch of needles under their skin only to be found years later when you experience sharp pains. Well this guy.

They pulled over a hundred needles out of his body. From all parts of his body. Crazyness I don’t understand how you wouldn’t notice them as you moved around. Well, actually he did notice them cause the pain was why he went to the doctors in the first place, but not for years. Here’s the article.

Two things. One I will never ever look at an office chair the same way again. I have a newly acquired fear of dying from a bleeding anus caused by an office chair exploding upwards.

The story goes that a 14 year old boy got his ass blown off by the gas cylinder in the chair exploding. The picture looks pretty grim but hey what? Don’t you think if anyone had been sitting on that chair it would be uh, a little bit messier. That’s a pretty big chunk taken out of the seat. I’m sure that a comparable chunk would have gone missing from boy in question. So while the story makes my butt cringe just thinking about it I’m going to go ahead and call bullshit.

Second a guy named Dirk proved that strong magnets are not to be taken lightly. He lost the tip of his finger and his finger nail when one of the magnets flew 20 inches to smack into the other one. Guess where his finger was.

Well that’s a dammit if I ever saw one. Oh yeah can’t figure out what the white thing is. It’s his finger nail.

I’m sorry where you eating lunch?