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So, this (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,504067,00.html) is in the news, and for the life of me I can't figure out why. Not why they're running the story: they're running it because it's a WTF moment and it'll get ratings. But why did someone care enough to do the study?

One wonders why anyone needed to do a study on this. Where did they think belly button lint comes from, aliens?

I figured that out without any funding...

thats just the most retarded waste of time i have ever read. he could of researched something important but no he chooses to do it about belly button lint.

what i want to know is how he told his family what hes doing.

dad/mother: has that university degree paid off?

Georg: erm... yes it has like right now im doing a study!

dad/mother: o really what are you investigating?

Georg: well.... errr.... belly button lint

dad/mother: sorry what was that? i thought for a moment you said belly button lint

Georg: i did

dad/mother: you F*****G T**T i wasted my savings on your university so you could study belly button lint. i hate you son.


thats how i believe the conversation went :P hahaha

That's scientists for you. If it's there and nobody knows why, they do what they do.

http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:jaHdRqrn-rABsM:http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/files/2008/09/000strangelove.jpg

But why is it always dark blue?

But doesn't anyone else see? Now that cancer has been cured, we have found ways to adopt to enviromental challenges and we know why and how to solve the overcrowding problem there is nothing left to research except for this sort of thing.

Now when do they plan to solve the mystery of what-the-fuck-is-that-shit-on-the-bottom-of-my-mouse.

But doesn't anyone else see? Now that cancer has been cured, we have found ways to adopt to enviromental challenges and we know why and how to solve the overcrowding problem there is nothing left to research except for this sort of thing.
You're going to regret your sarcasm when it turns out that belly button lint is an integral part of the cures for both cancer and HIV.

I'm no fan of fox news or anything, but that is a legit scientific article

Please don't complain about this, I fear reduced funding for my study: How umbrellas keep the rain off heads.

It's invaluable work, questioning pointless studies puts many of us scientists out of work.

Please don't complain about this, I fear reduced funding for my study: How umbrellas keep the rain off heads.

It's invaluable work, questioning pointless studies puts many of us scientists out of work.

made me laugh so much :D but yeah i totally understand, i have a new study in progress.... a shoe that left handed people can tie. its intunitive and well designed, i can't spot a flaw :p

What "mystery of belly button lint", isn't this the standard explaination we've had the whole time?

What "mystery of belly button lint", isn't this the standard explaination we've had the whole time?

Quite a dramatic title, indeed. I hope this guy goes broke.

My life is complete. I can die happy now.

European medical research at its finest

So, this (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,504067,00.html) is in the news, and for the life of me I can't figure out why. Not why they're running the story: they're running it because it's a WTF moment and it'll get ratings. But why did someone care enough to do the study?

The article makes it sound like the big deal is what it's made of, but I'd say there's actual valid work here in the mechanism by which the lint migrates and accumulates. It raises the question of why? What is the evolutionary advantage... or is it some kind of vestigial holdover?

I heard scientific musings about the direction of arm-hair, before. The idea being that the way upper-arm and lower-arm hair face in opposite directions could support an evolutionary model of tree-dwelling ancestors, where the hair would align to funnel rain away from vital surfaces, when that 'ancestor' was in a hanging position.

You could argue that there's really no such thing as 'wasted' research, because we really don't know what will end up being 'important'... in the end.

My life is complete. I can die happy now.

I smell a Nobel Prize

My life is complete. I can die happy now.

And I always thought I was unique, with my navel lint, I even thought about displaying it for money...
My life is ruined. Lemme die now. :(

But why is it always dark blue?

Dark blue?? Mine's a faintly glowing lime green.