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DNA Analysis Finds That Yetis Are Actually Bears (popsci.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Popular Science: University of Buffalo biologist Charlotte Lindqvist and her international team in Pakistan and Singapore provided the first strong evidence that presumed yetis are actually bears. They published their results in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Tuesday. Icon Film secured nine samples that purported to be genuine yeti artifacts, and Lindqvist gathered 15 samples from known bear populations. By sequencing mitochondria from all these sources, she and her fellow researchers were able to determine that all but one of the yeti artifacts actually came from local bears. That last sample was from a dog. They also figured out that Himalayan brown bears split off from the rest of the regional bear population several thousand years ago, which is why they're so genetically distinct from most other brown bears. Living in geographic isolation for so long has separated them from other Asian brown bears, and even from their relatives on the nearby Tibetan plateau. They even look different. But prior to Lindqvist's work, it wasn't clear just how long Himalayan bears had been on their own. Researchers will need higher-quality samples to figure out the whole picture, but even this small step is major for a species that's hardly been studied.
No, bears are actually bears. Yetis are bullshit.
Thanks, DNA!
Yeti's wear bear skin clothing. It gets cold up there!
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This research was done by bear scientists. Of course they will issue results that will increase their funding. Libturds will probably believe it though. The scientists didn't even take into account that Yetis could have cross-bred with bears, or that DNA can change when frozen in the ICE.
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Or Slashdot.
I didn't realize Democrats lived in trailer parks. Good to know.
Oh look, more anti-white racism.
You're so chic.
The DNA match didn't prove yetis are actually bears. Maybe the bears are actually yetis!
* Of course they are bears.
"Yeti" is the word for bear in the local language.
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Yetis are mutated bears, like the yao guai, which are totally real because I killed a mess of them in the Boston area.
You are welcome on my lawn.
So, dehumanizing people just because they live in poverty. Well, aren't you a gem, Adolf. Modded up, too. Stay classy, Slashdot.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I like how science is gradually eliminating mysteries. I mean that. There was somebody who complained that google was ruining us because you never had bask in wonder at the world's mysteries. 90% of the ones a regular chap could comprehend were a 2 second search away and you could find solid theories on the other 10%. The guy who wrote it was upset that we lost a sense of mystery, but I see it as as gaining a sense that the universe could be understood. That things happen for defined reasons and that we can, with time and learning take control of our destinies and shape them to our liking. In other words: Fate is bullshit.
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If you ever tune in to the Bigfoot/Sasquatch enthusiast groups you will find that there are tons of sightings, and lots and lots of physical evidence, hair, coprolites, stuff that would be loaded with Bigfoot DNA. It it was real.
Despite the fact that anyone can run a DNA test that identifies species for under $100 today, and that finding a single sample of DNA from an unknown primate would make the person finding it famous forever, not a single specimen claimed to be from a Bigfoot has ever been found to have anything but a known animal (usually human, sometimes bear, or other known mammal) as its source.
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Of course yetis are bears. You can simply tell by their appearance. Scientists should really just move on and focus on the bigger problems.
Why are you surprised that there are things that are called yetis? This is just a comment about what the evidence shows those things appear to be. Don't be hypnotized by a name, or what fools say about the thing bearing the name.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Only white people live in trailer parks? Aren't you a nice little racist!
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
But conservatives always tell me poverty is a choice. So these people have chosen their circumstances. I don't understand why you are pretending to be outraged.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
They don't. A certain level of in-breeding is required to live in them. Only conservatives, some quite well off, meet the necessary standards.
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I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
So are you saying that at these locations that people thought that they saw Yetis, there where indigenous bears at the same locations? And no one actually made the obvious connection?
Here is a hint for those people: If you see a big hairy animal at a distance and you know that there are big hairy animals roaming around called bears. It's fair to assume that those are bears.
It's like this: the starting points are different, because the US is a profoundly racist society (as those of us outside it see quite clearly, though apparently people living there don't). Black people often start off with two strikes against them. White people, on the other hand, don't.
So when somebody takes a shot at archetypal trailer park denizens, they're insulting people who worked hard to attain a level of ignorance and poverty that people of colour have thrust upon them. The social degeneracy is, I guess, something of a bonus, or perhaps a symptom.
I hope this helps.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Mine is a coffee cup.
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So you're AGREEING with them? I thought they were deplorable? Now you're saying you're deplorable too? Well damn. I always suspected you were gigantic hypocrites who were just engaging in a massive case of psychological projection, and here it is confirmed. You're projecting the hatred and fear you have within yourselves. Good job outing yourself, though.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Go back to twitter.
For you it's even easier: look in a mirror.
You are the leftist version of Donald Trump. Incredibly smug and condescending, supercilious, clinically suffering from late-stage Dunning-Kruger disease.
You should stop talking and listen, go volunteer at Hospice or Habitat for Humanity to get some face-to-face time with Americans who are hurting and put some skin in the game. Stop dehumanizing people with slurs like 'reptilian', that's against your own standards. But it's OK when you do it, amirite?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I bet you say that to all your boyfriends. (snicker)
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
At first I was afraid of the wave of destruction that might ensue since I read that as "sequencing midi-chlorian".
Jedi Yetis... yikes.
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I'm so very sorry you believe I'm condescending to you. Condescension, at least in dictionaries civilized people use, usually implies disdain. I feel only pity for conservatives, mixed with sorrow and perhaps even a little horror. But not disdain. Could it be that your own prejudices are getting in the way of understanding how important it is to reach down to them?
Also, the tone of your comments indicates you have issues with rage, perhaps driven by feelings of inadequacy. This is not a healthy way to live. I feel I should take the time to educate you, and clear up some of your misapprehensions. Addressing all of them, sadly, is beyond the time I have available, but perhaps you will be less angry if I explain some things to you.
First, there's your mistake about condescension. I believe I covered that. Then there's your suggestion I should volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. Would you care to guess who was on-site in Winnipeg when President Carter was overcome by dehydration this past summer?
And then there's the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It's not a disease, my angry friend. It's a cognitive bias. Evidence seems to indicate most of its victims are conservatives. In fact, many would argue it's part and parcel of conservatism. This is because study after study has indicated that when compared to liberals, conservatives are less intelligent, more driven by fear and rage (reptilian, hind-brain emotions...see what I did there?), and less able to change their views in the face of objective facts. All of these provide fertile ground for the growth of a healthy Dunning-Kruger bias.
I can provide some links to this research if you like. Would you like some links?
In any case, thank you for the opportunity to educate you. I feel that I have accomplished something here. I hope the rest of your day is as uplifting and amusing as mine has been so far.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
I hope your angry buddy is foolish enough to respond to this. I'm laughing so hard I've truly got tears in my eyes.
This is gold!
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
but as crazy as it is it's still something to be understood. Like you said, testable and true. In that sense it's not a mystery, just something too complicated to be understood at first (or second, or third, or thousandth) pass.
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You insist that poor whites are less than human. Your classist bigotry, which would have been unthinkable for leftists back in the 1930s, is never acknowledged. Moreover, although you insist we ought not to stereotype people, you're doing it constantly with people whose income levels will only allow them to afford trailer park housing. Dehumanizing people leads down a dark path, one our civilization has been down before. Subhumans...where have I heard that phrase before, Adolf?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"Subhumans...where have I heard that phrase before, Adolf?"
At your last Aryan Nations dinner-dance?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
I was going to respond. Somebody beat me to it, and I'm laughing too hard to come up with anything better.
"What he said.
Enjoy your day. Relax. Make sure you take any required medications. Thank you for your time.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Game. Set. Match.
If I'd known I could call in air support, I'd have shortened up my responses to that jackass.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
You are literally calling poor people subhuman. Do you or do you not see the clear analogy between what you believe and what the Nazis believed? They also called people they didn't like subhuman.
This is called psychological projection, when a person projects her own unacceptable thoughts onto others.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Your fake concern is amusing...almost as amusing as your attempt to re-cast alt right archetypes as something out of Grapes of Wrath. Your behaviour elsewhere here is a much better guide to "the real you".
Thanks for playing, though. You have yourself a lovely day.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.