Comments on: What if yellow and red started breeding?

What if yellow and red started breeding?

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:27:52 -0800

Survival of the fittest

By: cosmonik

cosmonik — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:30:29 -0800

The writer is clearly blue-ist.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:34:25 -0800

Now that that's settled, time to move on to the other candies. What about Survival Of The Skittle-ist?

By: Dasein

Dasein — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:35:26 -0800

People are awesome.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:35:37 -0800

That's pretty excellent.

By: jfrancis

jfrancis — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:36:29 -0800

an oldie but a goodie - always was a favorite of mine

By: peacay

peacay — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:36:59 -0800

It's an oldie but a goodie. It was linked here before (at least).

By: SomeOneElse

SomeOneElse — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:42:03 -0800

And here I thought this was going to be about the box-office results for Ben Stein's movie. rimshot

By: cosmonik

cosmonik — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:46:59 -0800

What about Survival Of The Skittle-ist? The red and yellow would clearly be superior in that case, too. It's about RACE not CLASS.

By: Spacelegoman

Spacelegoman — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:47:48 -0800

old copypasta is olddddddddd

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:11:43 -0800

Proof of Intelligent Design?

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:12:58 -0800

Did Internet archaeologists unearth an old BBS or something?

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:10:15 -0800

Here in the UK Cadbury does the reverse. They test their customers by releasing chocolate with salmonella. I guess the plan is the have a salmonella resistant population so they can cut that corner in their production more regularly.

By: Kibbutz

Kibbutz — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:23:26 -0800

I play the same game. Except with eggs.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:09:16 -0800

I tried that with some M&Ms today. In many cases, both M&Ms would have their shells cracked. Therefore, my real empirical experimentation proves this post is a HOAX! Or is at least falsifying data.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:59:18 -0800

So the ultimate m&m would be one with a shell so hard that no one could eat it? No thank you.

By: cosmonik

cosmonik — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:05:28 -0800

Yes, blue_beetle, that seems to be the take-home message: if the m&m you're enjoying doesn't cause structural damage to your dental work, it's genetically inferior.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:45:05 -0800

if the m&m you're enjoying doesn't cause structural damage to your dental work, it's genetically inferior The fittest candy is not the one that survives contests but rather the one that has a reproductive edge. Fitness is relative, after all. It's a question of what traits in a population of individuals work best in a given environment and not simply genetic "superiority." What is a superior trait in one environment might be a true hindrance in another. A thinner shelled candy might have other qualities that contribute to a higher or equal fitness. The blue candies could be more difficult to capture, or their coloring may warn of a deadly poison. They might be prickly or taste bad. They might reproduce sooner or have a higher survival rate of their offspring. They might be able to eat a food supply that is more available and that the thicker shelled candies can't eat. I would be willing to pilot a project to explore the other facets of this important and overlooked branch of evolutionary biology. Please send candies.

By: geeky

geeky — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:56:25 -0800

Hilarious! My favorite part is when he sends the surviving M&M to Mars to use for "breeding purposes".

By: jabberjaw

jabberjaw — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:25:24 -0800

Is it weird that I used to do the exact same thing when I was 9? Of course, I learned that it was easy to futz the results; the M&M on bottom tends to have an edge; the M&M on the thumb-side has a disadvantage; and the M&M that has gone through at least one round has already been structurally weakened, thereby making it impossible to survive subsequent rounds. I call shenanigans.

By: quin

quin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:26:25 -0800

I'm curious about this M&M breeding program; is this some kind of terrifying eugenics program who's end goal is to create the strongest and best of Ms? Like some kind of... UberM? Because as anyone who has seen a sci-fi movie in the past 20 years can tell you, this will end in either some kind of zombie/mutant apocalypse, or a fascist New Candy Order kind of dystopia where lesser confections are sent to their deaths after toiling their lives away in the chocolate mines. Regardless; it will be delicious.

By: Spatch

Spatch — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:42:02 -0800

I tried that with some M&Ms today. In many cases, both M&Ms would have their shells cracked. You apparently got the Sid & Nancy bag, delmoi.

By: electricinca

electricinca — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:45:02 -0800

A fascist New Candy Order kind of dystopia Ruled over no doubt by Doctor Who villain The Kandy Man.

By: Unicorn on the cob

Unicorn on the cob — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:24:27 -0800

I personally welcome our new impenetrable chocolate overlords. Of course this is HAWTALTA; it's one of the many subplots to be explored in the new X-Files movie, I'm sure.