Do you consider Humans to be Animals?

[Straight From Above]

Paperwork determined by genetic closeness. We CANNOT get a new type of creature equally related to animals, plants, fungi, etc. because the common ancestor of all of them is long dead.

But also quite the baller, from a spread-yo-seed kind of perspective.

[Geniasis]

Paperwork determined by genetic closeness. We CANNOT get a new type of creature equally related to animals, plants, fungi, etc. because the common ancestor of all of them is long dead.

So lie. No real point in it anyway.

I'm not sure you understand how science works.

[Straight From Above]

So lie. No real point in it anyway.

I'm not sure you understand how science works.

I dunno. I remember some of the graduate students who've had me read their project proposals....

[The Emerald Legion]

So lie. No real point in it anyway.

I'm not sure you understand how science works.

I do.

I also understand I see no point in this particular branch, save for knowledge for it's own sake.

[Yahkima]

Are our cells all at least initially eukariotic? Do we ingest and digest living material?

If you know what the definition of animal is, you know we are one. It's not a matter of opinion.

[The Emerald Legion]

Are our cells all at least initially eukariotic? Do we ingest and digest living material?

If you know what the definition of animal is, you know we are one. It's not a matter of opinion.

Actually it is, as it is part of language. Not a determinable fact.

[Yahkima]

Are our cells all at least initially eukariotic? Do we ingest and digest living material?

If you know what the definition of animal is, you know we are one. It's not a matter of opinion.

Actually it is, as it is part of language. Not a determinable fact.

Scientific definitions are quite precise, and the meaning of the word animal is empirically produced. You are wrong, sir.

[Tlaceceyaya]

I'm not sure you understand how science works.

I do.

I also understand I see no point in this particular branch, save for knowledge for it's own sake.

What is the point in robotics?

[Straight From Above]

I do.

I also understand I see no point in this particular branch, save for knowledge for it's own sake.

What is the point in robotics?

As a consensus among the various involved disciplines, it has been adopted that the point of robotics is Daryl Hannah class sex-bots.

[Foraknia]

Yes.

[Awesomeland]

I thought the point of robotics was to destroy all humans.

[The Emerald Legion]

Actually it is, as it is part of language. Not a determinable fact.

Scientific definitions are quite precise, and the meaning of the word animal is empirically produced. You are wrong, sir.

Not really. We could just as easily call it something else.

Scientists have a long standing tradition of making their language as confusing and unintuitive as possible.

[Straight From Above]

I thought the point of robotics was to destroy all humans.

Except Fry.

[Tlaceceyaya]

I thought the point of robotics was to destroy all humans.

Except Fry.

Yep. It goes like this: Kill all humans! Except Fry.

[Straight From Above]

Except Fry.

Yep. It goes like this: Kill all humans! Except Fry.

Are dodecapoidians animals?

Like, if Amy walks up to Zoidberg and says "I want to f*#% you like an animal" and he says,"....okay, but...how else can you do it?"

[Yahkima]

Scientific definitions are quite precise, and the meaning of the word animal is empirically produced. You are wrong, sir.

Not really. We could just as easily call it something else.

Scientists have a long standing tradition of making their language as confusing and unintuitive as possible.

What part of "empirically produced" do you not understand?

Look, if you want to take the scientific definition of the word "animal" and insert another word, you can. Just as if you want to start calling stars "pressure cookers" you can. They will, however, still be stars. They will have all the characteristics of a star, they will still look like stars, they will behave as stars, they will be stars. You can call the kingdom animalia anything you like, but the clade will still exist, and we will still be included in it.

And Scientists you very precise language for the exact reason that they do not wish to be misunderstood. If you don't understand what they are saying, perhaps you should take the time to become scientifically literate.

[Galborg]

And Scientists you very precise language for the exact reason that they do not wish to be misunderstood. If you don't understand what they are saying, perhaps you should take the time to become scientifically literate.

That is the Classical definition of Science, how Scientists ought to behave, but how they do behave in the age of Political Correctness is a different thing altogether.

PC "Scientists" have defined "berry" and "henge" and "tapestry" and "planet" with spiritual definitions that mean the square root of bugger all.

The meter is defined as 299,800 kilometers per second = c because Robespierre got his sums wrong in 1789 AD, fair enough, back in those days their measureometers weren't as good as modern measureometers. Likewise, Jesus was born in 4 BC because Dionysus Exiguus got his sums wrong in 325 AD.

Proper Science would apply the correct numbers. Neil de grasse Tyson insists that we must use these wrong numbers.

[The UEG-Space Command]

Humans are animals.

[Straight From Above]

Humans are animals.

Oh yeah?

Well if somebody commits a crime, do you call animal control? Or do you call the Police!


(I'm sorry, that's a stupid argument on my part that makes no sense and is completely wrong. I'm just trying to learn to channel other people, and for a minute there, I was channelling Ray Comfort.

You're right, completely.)

[The UEG-Space Command]

Humans are animals.

Oh yeah?

Well if somebody commits a crime, do you call animal control? Or do you call the Police!


(I'm sorry, that's a stupid argument on my part that makes no sense and is completely wrong. I'm just trying to learn to channel other people, and for a minute there, I was channelling Ray Comfort.

You're right, completely.)

You..........you are being watched.......competition.

[Straight From Above]

Oh yeah?

Well if somebody commits a crime, do you call animal control? Or do you call the Police!


(I'm sorry, that's a stupid argument on my part that makes no sense and is completely wrong. I'm just trying to learn to channel other people, and for a minute there, I was channelling Ray Comfort.

You're right, completely.)

You..........you are being watched.......competition.

I don't know who you are, but I don't know how to do anything, so I think you're winning.

[The UEG-Space Command]

No, I consider humans to be superior in every way to other animals. Because humans can build civilization. No other creatures on earth have accomplished what humans have thus far.

Heard of ants, those mofos are just a bit off a few things and they could organize a revolution for earth, Cracked said so.

[Chinese Regions]

Why wouldn't we be? We're eukariotic heterotrophs, which leaves us exactly one kingdom.

Unless we decide to add a kingdom.

Which is stupid.

[Chinese Regions]

Scientific definitions are quite precise, and the meaning of the word animal is empirically produced. You are wrong, sir.

Not really. We could just as easily call it something else.

Scientists have a long standing tradition of making their language as confusing and unintuitive as possible.

Why can't we call whatever you call 'animal' something else?
Science, don't like it, you still have to learn it.

[Norstal]

Scientific definitions are quite precise, and the meaning of the word animal is empirically produced. You are wrong, sir.

Not really. We could just as easily call it something else.

Scientists have a long standing tradition of making their language as confusing and unintuitive as possible.

So it must be false because it's confusing and unintuitive.

If you want to use your own definitions, fine. No one can stop you. However, you will cause more miscommunication and it'll be harder to get your points across.

Or in other words, you will have the charisma of a potato.