I think the joke is that the evidence doesn’t exclude it.
You have to get re-e-ealy close.
Of course, this is from the guy who finds OOTS’ Haley’s bare midriff mildly arousing.
I didn’t get that one, either.
To be fair, there were some scenes where Burlew did a really great job at making Haley sexy.
“Some lava around the piercing site is normal, but keep an eye out for spreading earthquakes and eruptive activity that might indicate rifting.”
Now is this the Brachistochrone curve for a Gravity Train through the Earth, or is there a better path?
It’s been done.
If you’re going to post the link to an xkcd, please also post the link to the image, which produces a larger look here:
And the title-text:
“One perk of being born at 0.88c is that your birthday is over two days long.”
Different pun, though.
“Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.”
“I’m trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it’s not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade.”
New “What-if” – Soylent Green is … not sustainable:
Brian
You could supply meat as a luxury item for a privileged class, but otherwise whatever meager sources such as plant protein that were available would be better utilized directly. ETA: the video was about a “how long” scenario, not doing without animal protein indefinitely.
I can’t remember where I read it, but there was a plot point in some story I read years ago in which a perpetual university student would get all expenses paid by a trust fund as long as: (1) he was a student in good standing and; (2) until he graduated—so he was determined to remain a student as long as possible and never complete all of the degree requirements in any one major. As I recall, after many years, the university ultimately awarded him a Ph.D. in General Studies to get rid of him.
This story might have been based on a real-life example described here:
But as it turns out, the student in this case did not have a contingent trust fund; he just loved going to school and had no need to make a living.
Some people don’t want to graduate because they don’t want to leave school and enter the real world.
I knew many students like that.
Probably this one.
I was a student like that.
Also Terry Pratchett’s “Moving Pictures.” But you are correct - the story description fits “Doorways” perfectly.
I had a roommate one semester who was in year 7 of his 4-year degree. He was milking Mom & Dad for all they were worth.
He made the clever play of transferring from a semester-based college to a quarter-based college and then back again a couple years later. Which evaporated a bunch of his course credits due to their lossy conversion factors.
His parents ran out of patience during year 8 and told him there was to be no year 9. At least not on their dime. So he transferred to a junior college where tuition was negligible.
We stayed in touch for a few years after my own timely graduation. He eventually got a job in one of his study fields. But not nearly the job and career track he might have had if he’d had the degree(s) his efforts might have yielded. If only he’d aimed to get degrees not avoid getting degrees.
In King Rat, the first book written in what became James Clavell’s Asian Saga series, an American corporal in a Japanese POW camp raises rats to sell for food.
His comrades, though nearly starving themselves, are repelled by the idea of eating rat meat, so King comes up with the plan of only selling the meat to officers without telling them the true source. A group of officers who stole money from their underlings are later seen greedily enjoying a meal of what they are told is mouse deer (rusa tikus in Malay), not knowing they are actually eating rat meat.
I knew a child prodigy when I was in college, who started taking college classes when she was 7. When I met her, she was 18, and still taking classes. Her plan was to become an expert in many different fields, to hopefully catch interdisciplinary ideas that specialists would miss.