The Mysterious Little People of Japan

Cyptomundo ^ | June 8, 2010 | Brent Swancer

[Pharmboy]

But, what do the genes show?

[blam]

"But, what do the genes show?"

Sorry, I don't know.

[Pharmboy]

Hmmm...one would think that the population geneticists would have gone after the DNA in Koreans, Japanese and the Ainu.

[wildbill]

“do i hear singing in the background?”

Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
To live

They got little hands
Little eyes
They walk around
Tellin’ great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet

Well, I don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
`Round here

[allmendream]

[Non-Sequitur]

bump

[fishtank]

Noah.

+ His wife.

+ The three sons’ wives.

= Five major people groups.

[allmendream]

That doesn't make any sense. The descendants of Noah and his children would be, at that time, one population group, with no limit on how many population groups they could go on to form.

Neither are there an easily separable “five major people groups”, where are you going to draw the line on that chart to get five, and how far do you have to squiggle the line to make it five?

[Semper Mark]

"Ainu people too have their long traditions of an ancient race of dwarf-like people thought to have inhabited the land long before humans arrived."

"We no rike story
You piss us off too much...
we come rook for you!"

[shibumi]

Runts Who Cannot Do
Dental Fricative No Scare
Sic Kaiju on you!


(Haiku! Haiku Berry, Berry Much!)

[JoeProBono]

[shibumi]

Theo/Metaphysical question:

Does belief in Godzilla necessitate belief in Devilzilla?

[JoeProBono]

Prolly

[shibumi]

"We Believe!"

[Semper Mark]

Nah.

["Just because you don't believe doesn't mean that I don't exist."]

[JoeProBono]

I know of two palaeontologists who have made comments on various of Godzilla's physical properties. Jim Farlow, a palaeobiologist based at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, and best known for his work on dinosaur trackways, speculated in 1998 on the foot size of TriStar's GINO. Jim noted that he'd 'probably have to log-transform the measurements to get [the data from the toes] onto the same graphs with my other data without scrunching the other points into an indecipherable blur near the origin'. He also noted that it might prove difficult to cast even a single Godzilla footprint given grant limitations and the cost of plaster of Paris, silicone or latex rubber. Sadly, Prof Farlow never published his thoughts on this subject and all we have is a message posted to the dinosaur mailing list

[Semper Mark]

Feed Devilzilla the Koropokkuru first...

...then run!

[shibumi]

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/02/the_science_of_godzilla_1.php

Please note comment #37, below the main article.

(The question still remains.)

[Semper Mark]

"Just a thought, but does belief in Godzilla necessitate concomitant belief in Devilzilla?"

"(The question still remains.)"

Yes, and no.

[I should'a been a politician, because I have all the answers.]

[Cyropaedia]

"... why yes, in early April, I did unload millions of dollars in BP stock, - and invest the returns in Petrobas' deep sea oil drilling efforts off the Brazilian coast.

Look, - I got a great tip from my pal George Soros.

Eh, ... why do you ask...?".