Totally pointless thread...

[PigDogg]

(Jake_Sully @ Aug. 07 2010,02:27) "There are 4 lights!"

[Jake_Sully]

The first time I watched that it gave me goosebumps. That episode is a classic.

[El_hefe]

Asians typically notice the smell of dairy from the sweat of westerners.

[friedfrunk]

(Jake_Sully @ Aug. 08 2010,03:51) You are what you eat

yeah i'm a dick

[Tomcat]

(El_hefe @ Aug. 08 2010,05:26) Asians typically notice the smell of dairy from the sweat of westerners.

i heard this before and cant grasp why we smell as such , is the standard answer that it is some form of sweated calcium etc  or some other causation. After all a lot of people dont touch dairy products and i doubt if a spurt of milk would make a difference in the morning cuppa.

maybe il submit the question to New Scientist. They have a weekly column where the niggly questions of life are answerd by other boffins..

Like " does anything eat wasps"

[mirimark]

Totally Pointless thread.
The Point is on Top your Head.
G'night peeps. C'yas Tomarro.

[Tomcat]

G , night ...its morning isnt it where your are

[Jake_Sully]

He must have stayed up till 5 am. And Tomcat I think lactose intolerance might have something to do with it.

[Jake_Sully]

(friedfrunk @ Aug. 07 2010,20:04)

(Jake_Sully @ Aug. 08 2010,03:51) You are what you eat

yeah i'm a dick

sausage doesn't smell that bad but it can give you a belly.

[Tomcat]

The Lactose intolerance may be the answer , but in any event this means that Thais must have a different Olfactory system to caucasians for instance. I think its pretty complex but interesting none the less ( to me anyway)

[Jake_Sully]

Its probably wrong for me to post this here in the pointless thread since it isn't pointless but here's how it makes sense.

Its evolution at work.

Human migration timelines:



Cross Reference with Lactose Intolerance:



As you can see, the first people to leave Africa 60,000 years ago and before belonging to the M haplogroup were lactose intolerant. The second wave to leave Africa 30,000 years ago and afterwards composed of the R haplogroup were able to digest lactose. The first wave of people went east to India and further down the coast. The 2nd wave went up to modern day Iraq and continued to Mongolia where they then went towards Northern Europe.

Anthropology, Human Migration, Geology, Paleontology and Evolution are some of my favorite hobbies and I've often wondered why my mom is lactose intolerant while my dad and I are not. But of course this is conjecture.  

[Bumpa STIKKA]

Don't worry - it's on the right thread!

[PigDogg]

[Road Runner]

The upper map I find interesting.

If you look at track D it roughly coincides with where the majority of the transsexuals are found in the world.


Made a point!

RR.

[Jake_Sully]

Actually I would think its the M because you find transsexuals in the forms of hijra's from India all the way to the Fa'afafine in Austronesian societies of the Samoan Islands. Even in their books, some of which are dated to roughly 3500 years ago (1400 B.C.) it includes transsexuals in its text.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender

Also Proto-Sanskrit influences the language of basically all of these cultures. For example Tagalog, Thai, Hindi clearly inherit words from Proto-Sanskrit. It isn't clear however that they descend clearly from the same language but they must have had contact with each other to learn of some words from each other's culture. For example even though the British pronounce Z as Zed, we Americans pronounce it Zee after the French, courtesy of the French contact with us in American War of Independence.

Something very similar along this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped....ree.svg