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I misread the title as "Woman frozen ..." and mentally prepared myself for some existentially shattering shit.
by ethan1saacson 8y ago
I misread the title as "Woman frozen ..." and mentally prepared myself for some existentially shattering shit.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoI did the exact same thing, but tweeted about it* instead of saying it here. https://mobile.twitter.com/doreen_michele/status/1022646170575720449 https://mobile.twitter.com/doreen_michele/status/10226461705...
- saagarjha 8y agoI guess you’ve kinda said it here as well ;)
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- matte_black 8y agoIndeed, if such a woman had been unfrozen, would she be too important of a scientific discovery to ever be allowed to live a normal human life again? Would she just be a research subject quarantined and experimented on for the rest of her days?
- allthenews 8y agoWhat does it mean for a reanimated woman from 42000 years ago to live a "normal" life in modern times?
- cweagans 8y agoAll kinds of new fun diseases, probably.
- CrazyCatDog 8y agoMany have wondered the same. I personally think Brandon Frasier's perspective in the film, "Encino Man," was quite apt.
- mark212 8y agoThe late Phil Hartman’s exploration as Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer was also trenchant and emotionally gripping
- saagarjha 8y agoI doubt she would be able to learn to communicate at all, assuming this hypothetical frozen woman was and adult.
- megy 8y agoOf course she would be able to communicate. Cats and dogs can communicate to us.
- saagarjha 8y agoOk, communicate using complex language. She's not going to be picking up English at even a basic level.
- nsxwolf 8y agoBecause she's a worm.
- matte_black 8y agoWhy can’t she? A child comes into this world with nothing and learns to speak in time.
- dstroot 8y agoWhen did HN become reddit?
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- cm2187 8y agoParticularly a pre-Homo Sapiens Sapiens human...
- jibal 8y ago42,000 years ago would be essentially equivalent to a modern human, physiologically.
- _asummers 8y agoShe would definitely have to be quarantined, for both her sake and ours. Neither party is likely to be sufficiently immunized against the diseases of the other's time.
- jibal 8y agoExperimented on? Seriously? The modern world does not operate according to Dr. Mengele's ethics. Anyone "experimenting on" her would receive worldwide condemnation and all sorts of criminal charges. (Why, other than personal animus, would this be downvoted?)
- songzme 8y agoBecause your statement is objectively wrong. Could you not see a scenario where people would experiment on her? Behaviorly/psychologically?
- jibal 8y agoNo, nothing I said is objectively wrong. Regardless of whether I can see scenarios where people would experiment on her, my statement about worldwide protest and ethical standards is factual. And in any case "could you not see" is a call for a judgment; there's nothing objective about it, or elsewhere in your statement, which provides no support of any sort, let alone "objective" support, for your claim that my statement (which you don't even identify; I made more than one) is objectively wrong. And your subjective opinion that some statement of mine is wrong is not a valid basis for a downvote; I ask that you do not do that. In any case, I will not respond further.
- songzme 8y agoUnfortunately, I did not downvote you. I was trying to guess why someone would downvote your comment.
- matte_black 8y agoBecause it’s naive. You think a 42,000 year old living human is just going to be left alone? There’s too much we can learn across a variety of subject matter to let that opportunity go to waste.
- jibal 8y ago> Because it’s naive. Such personal judgments are not valid reasons for a downvote. > You think a 42,000 year old living human is just going to be left alone? I said nothing of the sort. Of course she would not be left alone, any more than a mentally ill person who cannot function in society is left alone ... but we don't use them as guinea pigs. What I said was that performing experiments on her for the rest of her life would bring protests and would violate all sorts of ethical standards. It would be criminal, under current statutes. > There’s too much we can learn across a variety of subject matter to let that opportunity go to waste. A woman, even one 42,000 years old, is not merely an "opportunity", she's an autonomous person with human rights. But apparently the whole idea of the Enlightenment is naive.
- chakalakasp 8y agoPretty sure the only viable career option for her would be Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
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- AznHisoka 8y agoThats gotta be some optical illusion thing.
- qbrass 8y agoWhen you skim headlines instead of reading them, your brain makes guesses at the words instead of actually reading each letter, as a speed hack. It's also used as a crutch when your eyesight slowly degrades over the years. Sometimes it leads to Freudian slips, other times, you just expect to read about people instead of worms.
- panic 8y agoI think you're right -- "Worms frozen" looks like "Wo…en" when you read the two words quickly. Your brian tedns to flil in the mdidle of wodrs baesd on the ousitde lteters.
- dang 8y agoAll: please don't do threads like this here.