Dammit. Asian people...

[Anthraxxx]

As an average height are smaller than the rest of the world. Apparently it's the same for Asian T.Rex too.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/09/17/tiny.t-rex.dinosaur.discovered/index.html

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Fascinating. Like a lion compared to my cat mittens.

 

[Viperidae]

Like a carrot stick compared to my cucumber.

 

[Zubin]

Odd...
I'm Asian and while male family members back in Asia are only 5ftish over here all the male family members are 6ft, 6'1", 6'4" I don't get it? Is listening to this hip hop music and playing basketball actually turning us into something :gulp: >not< Asian?

I guess having a steady food supply, near perfect nutrition, and GE foods which cause muscles to grow bigger in men and breasts to grow larger on women may have something to do with all this, hmm...

 

[15357]

Well, I'm 181cm. I'm pretty tall relatively, I suppose.

 

[Tyguy]

This is full of epochness. Add that to the list of transitional fossils. It's funny, a guy bought the fossils after they were smuggled to the US, donated it to science, and now it's going to be returned to China. I guess he doesn't trust the Chinese with dinosaur bones.

 

[Maestro]

I think the way it worked out is in Asia, people who would be naturally tall were taller than their compatriots but still short because of poor nutrition (rice is pretty much empty calories). So over time people who could still get to some semblance of regular height were naturally selected over their peers. Now that they are immigrating to an area where people have had good diets for a long time (and have equaled out over time to an average) they are dramatically taller than their peers.

Because damnit, there are a lot of asian people I know that are American-born, and most of them are between somewhat and ridiculously taller than normal.

 

[Tyguy]

maestro is a heightest, you scoundrel!

 

[lefty]

9 feet tall and 150 pounds? That doesn't sound right to me.

 

[hool10]

I think the way it worked out is in Asia, people who would be naturally tall were taller than their compatriots but still short because of poor nutrition (rice is pretty much empty calories). So over time people who could still get to some semblance of regular height were naturally selected over their peers. Now that they are immigrating to an area where people have had good diets for a long time (and have equaled out over time to an average) they are dramatically taller than their peers.

Because damnit, there are a lot of asian people I know that are American-born, and most of them are between somewhat and ridiculously taller than normal.

I like this theory. :cheers:

 

[Tyguy]

I have a different theory...Chinese people are short because the combined mass of everyone is enough to increase the gravitational pull. I'm pretty sure I'm right, like 98.6 percent sure.

 

[Maestro]

Silly science, gross mass doesn't apply to Asian people!

 

[AKIRA]

did it hit anyone how freaking long 125 MILLION years is?...sit and think about that one for a minute

 

[Danimal]

did it hit anyone how freaking long 125 MILLION years is?...sit and think about that one for a minute

I figured it'd be roughly... 1... 25 million years long? Just a hunch.

I also used to train with this Asian guy, way taller than me, way more muscular, too.

The kind of d00d that doesn't really get mugged, basically.

EDIT:

Guess I should mention I'm 6'1" or something.

 

[Zubin]

I figured it'd be roughly... 1... 25 million years long? Just a hunch.

I also used to train with this Asian guy, way taller than me, way more muscular, too.

The kind of d00d that doesn't really get mugged, basically.

EDIT:

Guess I should mention I'm 6'1" or something.

Nutrition is part of it but also remember the GE foods definitely have some effect on growth as well

 

[Danimal]

yeah but I heard that shit is nasty, at least in the chickens.

d00ds with double-d's ahoy.

 

[Krynn72]

9 feet tall and 150 pounds? That doesn't sound right to me.

Thats was I was thinking too. It certainly wouldnt look like that sketch they had on the page, it would be one sickly, anorexic looking dino.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Asian people also have different earwax to Western people. If you ever somehow find yourself in a situation where you need to be totally sure whether someone is Asian or not, hold them down and check their wax.

 

[Danimal]

But what are the differences, professor?

http://fotosa***/stock_photo/Fancy%20by%20Veer/p_2698074.jpg

 

[Sulkdodds]

Normal, reasonable, honest-to-God American ear wax is, as we all know, orange-brown and moist. It is the dominant gene, as it should be, and you will all recognise it as perfectly normal wax. Asians, on the other hand, like you, Jimmy, have gray and colorless ear wax, with the dry, flaky consistency of ash. Write that down in your copybooks.

 

[Danimal]

Normal, reasonable, honest-to-God American ear wax is, as we all know, orange-brown and moist. It is the dominant gene, as it should be, and you will all recognise it as perfectly normal wax. Asians, on the other hand, like you, Jimmy, have gray and colorless ear wax, with the dry, flaky consistency of ash. Write that down in your copybooks.

Why are you being racist to my son, Sulkdodds? I thought we were a team.

 

[Sulkdodds]

What are you talking about? I'm not racist. My wife is Japanese.

 

[Danimal]

What are you talking about? I'm not racist. My wife is Japanese.

I've seen your wife, Sulkdodds...

*SCHWONG DRAMATIC FRAMING OF EYES*

Funny that as soon as you got your robotics degree this mysterious woman marries you... Tell me... What is her name?

 

[Sulkdodds]

I don't know what you're talking about; you've got the wrong guy. Nor will I tell you her name - I don't see why I should, and in any case there is the danger that she would be found and harassed. But while we're in this classroom, let's propose a thought experiment. What if you were correct in your assessment of my wife? And what if you held it against me, or against her - for no other reason than that her humanity is synthetic? Wouldn't that make you the racist - or should I say the droidist?

Spoiler

wait was he serious
now will you go through the catalogue and claim you know her model code?

 

[Darkside55]

Ok wait

you're married?

Also is that true about gray, colorless earwax? Because my earwax isn't gray or flaky. That's kinda gross.

Also, just an aside, whenever I see pictures of you I just can't wrap my mind around it. I've grown too used to the concept that you look like Freud. My mind rejects anything else.

 

[Danimal]

I don't know what you're talking about; you've got the wrong guy. Nor will I tell you her name - I don't see why I should, and in any case there is the danger that she would be found and harassed. But while we're in this classroom, let's propose a thought experiment. What if you were correct in your assessment of my wife? And what if you held it against me, or against her - for no other reason than that her humanity is synthetic? Wouldn't that make you the racist - or should I say the droidist?

The class has gone over by four minutes, sir.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Get out.

Also is that true about gray, colorless earwax? Because my earwax isn't gray or flaky. That's kinda gross.

Also, just an aside, whenever I see pictures of you I just can't wrap my mind around it. I've grown too used to the concept that you look like Freud. My mind rejects anything else.

It's true about the earwax, as far as I know, but the grey-dry gene is recessive so if you have mixed ancestry it would be in hiding. Anyway, next picture that is taken of me I'll endeavour to be wearing a false beard.

 

[<RJMC>]

so if I want to know if someone is asian I should check theyr earwaxes

*me stands nears numbers*

RJMC: look a comunists!

numbers: where?*RJMC grabs heads of numbers and start puting his fingers on the ear*

numbers: what the **** are you-?

RJMC: I am confirming if you are asian*slipping fingers into ear*

 

[Maestro]

Ok wait

you're married?

Also is that true about gray, colorless earwax? Because my earwax isn't gray or flaky. That's kinda gross.

Also, just an aside, whenever I see pictures of you I just can't wrap my mind around it. I've grown too used to the concept that you look like Freud. My mind rejects anything else.

This.

Except, you know, I'm not Asian at all so no grey and flaky for me.