Comments on: All Quiet on the Scienceblogs Front

By: Iain

Iain — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:58:03 +0000

So let me get this right. Scienceblogs is a doomed German soldier on the Western Front? or the boots of a German soldier? or the front line where a whole bunch of German soldiers are wearing borrowed boots, but all the original owners are now dead?
Does not sound like a reason to stick around, Greg. Has no one told you the Germans lost that one? Sure a whole lot on the other side died (and maybe they did not even have boots, who knows?). Did you hear that some people cared enough about them to dig up a mass grave where many of them had been put after the battle of Fromelles, get the bodies identified using aDNA techniques and have them reburied a couple of days ago with full ceremony, the Australian Governor General and Prince Charles (who has an old pair of boots from some George or Edward in whose name those men were fighting). And speeches from the people whose DNA (boots?) was used to identify the dead, even though in all cases the descendant had never seen them.
A great analogy for an evolutionary process, but maybe a need to adapt to a more successful strategy.

By: rob

rob — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:32:23 +0000

braaaiiiinnnnsss…i wannnt me boootsss back…braiinnssssss

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:09:56 +0000

Had a great-grandfather on (I believe) the Western Front. Funny really – for all I’ve read of WWI, I know nothing of his experience. Guessing he didn’t talk about it. Makes me wonder whose boots he came home wearing…

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:16:44 +0000

Um, Glendon, I think you missed my point: Evan wears old boots he got off of some dead guy!

By: Glendon Mellow

Glendon Mellow — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:43:51 +0000

Does Evan wear cool boots? Retro Doc Marten’s or something?