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Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D
Rambo Tribble writes "Reuters reports 4D scans have conclusively shown that fetuses do yawn. Understandable, eh? After all, all they get is cable."
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I think that takes the cake for "jokes I've seen on Slashdot stories" this year.
Mr. America walk on by your schools that do not teach Mr. America walk on by the minds that won't be reached
Someone needs to tag this story as "knee-slapper"
Incoming Abortion Flame War in 5...4...3...
May the Maths Be with you!
It would reduce the demand for abortions.
How the hell is this "news for nerds"?
... when subjected to that much intrusive advertising. Clicked the article because I was really interested to see the video. First a full screen flash popover thing that completely obscured the page and forced me to find a 'close' button for it, and then a twelve second pre-video video. Screw it, close tab, I'll go somewhere else, and I'll also be wary of clicking links to reuters.com in future.
WTF is "4D" supposed to mean when applied to ultrasound technology? They're 2D images of 3D objects. Can we finally measure the hyperfetus?
So do dogs. Cats yawn too. I'm not sure about mice.
What's the point of this story, is there some burning question as to what organisms yawn? A yawning controversy I haven't heard of perhaps? Or some prospective line of in inquiry into the science of yawning?
This story seems like a puff piece devoid of any significant detail or content worth posting to Slashdot.
They breathe a liquid. They get no significent oxygen intake through it. They don't breathe, thus they can't yawn. What this really shows is that the fetus has an inbuilt reflex which, after birth, will lead to yawning.
Did your mom have any kids she didn't abort?
At least ten times that number starve to death yearly. We don't need more people.
Also [citation needed]. Let's take a quick look at your math here. The US has what, 300 million people, half men. Let's assume half of women are sexually active and able to conceive. (So people that are too young / too old / not getting any) That's a total of 75 million people that could potentially have an abortion. That means that every year, one out of every 95 women is having an abortion and requires the assumption that they aren't using any form of birth control. That's frankly ridiculous. Your stats are bad and you should feel bad.
Hunger info here:
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm
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It's about time. The little bastards had been getting away with it for too long. Now they've been busted (caught) from every possible angle. Yawning is a gateway to very wicked things. It's time they stop thinking that just because they are in a larval stage, that they can behave like larger humans. Next thing you know, they'll be rolling their eyes and shaking their heads and sighing.
Get back to work, stupid fetus!
Just like Microsoft won the operating systems war. Read the dissenting opinions in Roe vs. Wade if you believe that battle can never go the other way.
...for the 4D ultrasound for our little guy when he was about 6 months along in July '11. It was a pretty incredible experience. I could tell he was gonna get my nose. And yeah, we saw him yawn - got a still picture of it, and the whole session was recorded to DVD.
Karma: Can only be portioned out by the Cosmos.
This is the most recent report I could find from the CDC and their numbers support the 790,000 claim, to a first approximation.
Have you ever heard a conversation between pregnant women/mothers? I'd like to see the 4D proof of one trying to block its ears.
Well, that's quite surprising. Thanks for the link, and FO is decent enough, that's all I did.
I apologize for calling that number ridiculous and saying the GP should feel bad.
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The right-wingers' alternative to abortion is abstinence-only sex education.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Oh sorry, and also "shutting the whole thing down" in cases of legitimate rape.
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I'm sitting here with my newborn daughter. And a couple of weeks ago we had this exact same ultrasound done. They handed me a picture that looked just like a single frame of this animation.
And I couldn't help but think, "She looks like an end level boss from DOOM." Is it just me? These ultrasound pictures are somehow profoundly creepy. I could easily imagine something looking like that howling and throwing gigantic missiles at me.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
The Right should spend their time and money on providing a realistic alternative than attacking it.
Stay classy, huckamania. Enjoy your 4 more years of reckoning.
It is alive. How that's up for debate is beyond me. Whether or not is has any legal rights, however, certainly is. If you're pro-choice, that's fine, but don't use terrible reasoning to justify it.
The Democrat pregnancy motto "Hurry up and kill it!"
That baby will be one of the 790,000 aborted fetuses in America every year. I'm don't have a dog in the fight and ones toy don't care, it's your soul that has to bear the load, but I found that newly released number to be shocking.
Did your mom have any kids she didn't abort?
apparently not.
Four years ago, five months before she was born, I saw my daughter yawn in a 4D sonogram.
LK
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A 30 second commercial for a 16 second video... seriously?
It can yawn. It can move. Is it life or not?
I Yawned just by reading the title of this post. (Its not that im not interested in the subject matter - just reading the word Yawn did it!) am i alone ?
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Open your mind.....
What a travesty.