NiGHTMARE Posted March 28, 2002 My Mum and Dad have been working on our family tree for some time now, and they've just come across something that is extremely unsettling. George W. Bush is my 13th cousin :( 0 Share this post Link to post
NiGHTMARE Posted March 28, 2002 Oh, another one of my 13th cousins is the actor Ralph Fiennes (sp?), so it's not all bad. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted March 28, 2002 For real? Heh I'd like to do mine. Problem is, they wanna charge me $100. 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted March 28, 2002 Originally posted by fodders join the club Y'know this explains alot. How many of our presidents are skimmed from the top of the same shallow gene pool. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
NiGHTMARE Posted March 28, 2002 Heh Fod, are you suffering from Insomnica too? I've slept five hours in the past two days :( 0 Share this post Link to post
skadoomer Posted March 28, 2002 George W. Bush is my 13th cousin ...Which in realaty means absolutly nothing. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lord FlatHead Posted March 28, 2002 All I know is my ancestors were British. Other than that, I think everyone is some celebrity's nth cousin. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ralphis` Posted March 28, 2002 Wouldn't everyone in the world be related? Really? I mean, you're probably married to your 23rd cousin or something, unless you live in WV and you're married to your sister 0 Share this post Link to post
LordTrasher Posted March 28, 2002 I have some sort of link to ex-AFL footballer Bruce Doull, so that's interesting. No female streakers seem to want to tackle me though. 0 Share this post Link to post
spank Posted March 28, 2002 Heh, this must be telepathic or something, because both my mom and my stepmom are builiding their genealogic trees. Cool stuff that I've found: - One of my great-grandmothers had 13 younger or older brothers and sisters which we had no idea that existed. - My stepmom comes from Brazil, where her great-great-great-whatever-grandfather owned an entire province (Manaus, IIRC). - I might own a fortune that can cover all my studying expenses at Uni. 0 Share this post Link to post
KING ELVIS Posted March 28, 2002 Elvis not died 1977, instead he is involved into Doom frontend programming nowadays. 0 Share this post Link to post
BattleCat Posted March 28, 2002 Dude(s), 2pac and Elvis are dead. Live with it ! 0 Share this post Link to post
nxn Posted March 28, 2002 bah, we're all related, we were all but one same fish back in the day. 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted March 28, 2002 Nestled safely inside the belly of a comet orbiting some unknown star, a microscopic alien sits dormant. Somewhere in this vast universe -- perhaps a place like Earth -- a greater destiny awaits the microbe. A place to flourish, become a nematode or a rose or a teenager. Life, after all, is tenacious and thrives on change. Over time, gravity performs a few plausible, but not routine tricks, and the comet is ejected from its stellar orbit like a rock from a slingshot. For more than a 100 million years it slips silently across the inky vastness of interstellar space. Then gravity goes to work again. Another star tugs at the comet, pulls it in. A few giant gaseous planets whiz by, their bulks tugging at the comet, altering its course slightly. Ahead now, growing larger, looms a gorgeous blue and brown marble. Water and land. Maybe some air. Then with the force only the cosmos can summon, the comet slams into the third rock from a mid-sized, moderately powerful star. The alien microbe survives, emerges from its protective shell and spreads like the dickens. Thus began life on Earth, 3.8 billion years ago. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted March 28, 2002 It's retarded to say that life came from outer space. It must have started somewhere. 0 Share this post Link to post
spank Posted March 28, 2002 Uh, Fredrik, actually that makes a lot of sense. ... but mind you, the cosmozoic (sp?) theory Fod described is not the most widely accepted (the Oparin-Haldane one is, but I can't remember much of it so I won't go further). 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted March 28, 2002 cosmozoic It's called panspermia, Astronomer Chandra Wickramasinghe is director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology. He is a former student of Fred Hoyle, with whom he co-developed the modern theory of panspermia. 0 Share this post Link to post
spank Posted March 28, 2002 Yeah, that's it, panspermia. It's been a while since 10th grade :) 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted March 28, 2002 It's been a while since 10th grade :) for you or for me? :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Ninja of DooM Posted March 28, 2002 George W. Bush is my 13th cousin This is scary man. At least it gives you an excuse to take the piss out of him. Your geeky 13th cousin. I don't think i'm related to anyone famous. 0 Share this post Link to post
Shockwav3 Posted March 28, 2002 Originally posted by NiGHTMARE ...George W. Bush is my 13th cousin :( who cares as long as you aren't a moron like him? 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted March 28, 2002 So life came from outer space... it came to Earth from a planet somewhere far away. And how did life come to that planet? Answer: it came flying through space from a planet far away. And... 10 GOTO 10 while(1) Chicken and egg. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE YOU KNOW It must have started somewhere, and why not on Earth? Why would any other place have been more likely to spawn life? 0 Share this post Link to post
spank Posted March 28, 2002 I didn't say I agree with it, I just said it makes sense. Or maybe we interpreted it badly and a comet collision was what made it possible for life to begin... 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted March 28, 2002 My cousin was in most KFC commercials about a decade ago. The family would be sitting there at the kitchen table, bored, and then my cousin, the mom, would walk in with a smile and a bucket of KFC. Funny thing, she never could eat any KFC without vomiting. 0 Share this post Link to post
AirRaid Posted March 28, 2002 Cecil Rhodes was my great great great great grandfather, a few times removed. 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted March 28, 2002 Meh, I don't have much on my family. One of my far-removed cousins ran for President as the ultimate left-wing liberal psychopath (and was shot down in the primary.) Apparently my mom's family is descended from Transylvanian royalty, so I'm probably related to history's most notorious blood-chugger. :-[* 0 Share this post Link to post
Crendowing Posted March 28, 2002 Originally posted by FlatHead All I know is my ancestors were British. Other than that, I think everyone is some celebrity's nth cousin. Whether the "n" = 9.999999999999999999999999999999999x10^99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999, it's true. 0 Share this post Link to post