Flatulare ergo sum!

aCOSwt · Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:14 pm Post subject: Flatulare ergo sum!

1/ As I did, you almost certainly read the recent papers from the NASA ruining hopes for life on Mars BECAUSE :
Discovery had not found any : Methane!

2/ Flatulare ergo sum can now be consecrated as a trivial scientific evidence.
I no longer worry! If aliens invade us, we'll, at least, be able to share some common views.

3/ OK, now from a communication standpoint, what do you (well... I don't mean you :roll:

) do when you'd like to tell something but, you feel somehow embarrassed ?
You... find and tell some immediate consequence of that something.
And... Because you are embarrassed... you'll, almost certainly, commit yourself into some more or less disgraceful/charming lexical or grammatical fault.

4/ From above, I deduce [(C) aCOSwt 2103 all rights reserved] that when George Berkeley (Philosopher && Bishop && English => 3+ good reasons for being a bit... hmmm... uptight) writes his now more than famous "Esse is :lol:

percipi" (I won't translate English in order not to insult the reader) (Note that to is intentionally omitted), he, as a matter of fact, thought "Esse est flatulare".

It's interesting to note how one can find deep profundities into the most trivial evidences when the true fact is abstracted to the full profit of one of its immediate consequences.

QHAAA!
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tylerwylie · Guru Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 458 Location: /US/Georgia

What?

aCOSwt · Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:07 pm Post subject:

What what ?
You don't expect my English to be better than Berkeley's one, do you ?
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Ahenobarbi · Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:09 pm Post subject:

Sonds a bit like comic on the right

aCOSwt · Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:17 pm Post subject:

Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
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Ahenobarbi · Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:30 pm Post subject:

I am Arthur, king of the Britons. I suppose.

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Bones McCracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1580 Location: U.S.A.

Methane gas might serve as evidence of most forms of Earth-like animal life, but it's not even characteristic of all forms of Terrestrial life, much less of any and all forms of possible life in the universe. To think so is narrow-minded and terracentric.

flatulo ergo sum

Or maybe they think there some element like phlogiston, except it's called phlatuliston.

pjp · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 2:31 am Post subject:

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I fart therefore I am... Hmmm, my cat is alive then!
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Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 816 Location: Germany

Flatulo ergo sum.
People just don't get Latin anymore.

Edit: Just realized that BK already corrected it. Thank you.
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erm67 · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:29 am Post subject: Re: Flatulare ergo sum!

aCOSwt · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:58 am Post subject: Re: Flatulare ergo sum!

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Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 816 Location: Germany

I like Harry Potter, but the Latin in it concerns me. :/
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pjp · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 11:08 pm Post subject:

smartass · Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:02 am Post subject:

You got it all wrong.

No methane on Mars just shows how it became that scorched red planet.

The aliens produced so much methane that when it reached the critical mixture, due to an unfortunate spark the whole planet was engulfed in fire for a few hours, leaving only a scorched red dessert.

No seriously, scientists ought to stop jumping to such big conclusions just because they didn't find something in a few drills, with equipment that may not be even working reliably after all that time. Or maybe it's the press that tries to jump to such conclusions from a simple report, because they need a news story that doesn't show how terrible our real problems are as nobody wants to listen to that. The news is slowly becoming Sci-Fi, it just gets more views that way.

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