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It's a fact! (i.imgur.com)

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[–]BlandSauce 23 points24 points ago

Did you know the Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years across? That's longer than two football fields!

[–]mafibasheth 5 points6 points ago

I imagine if we took the amount of times this image has been posted, and multiply it by 0, the internet would cease to exist.

[–]Glalie 10 points11 points ago

studies show that if your parents dont have kids, you wont either

[–]iameha 9 points10 points ago

Source of image: http://fakescience.tumblr.com/

[–]WarAndRuin 92 points93 points ago

instead of yelling repost I'm going to just leave this here...

title comnts points age /r/
Everyone should know this 9coms 33pts 1mo funny
Elephants. 0coms -1pt 1mo funny
Neat Nature Fact: Elephants 289coms 1581pts 3mos funny
Imagine if we took all the elephants in the world... 1com 4pts 7dys funny
Lost it at [6].. Could you imagine? and did you know that?! 32coms 887pts 5dys trees
It's Science 3coms 73pts 16dys funny
Don't you love learning science? 25coms 272pts 2mos atheism
An amazing nature fact! Who would've known? 1com 3pts 25dys funny
Did you know this? 0coms 18pts 1mo funny
Neat Nature Facts 7coms 77pts 1mo funny

source: karmadecay

[–]Nerdcubed 34 points35 points ago

I love how this was posted to /r/atheism at one point. I mean /r/trees I understand...

[–]WarAndRuin 5 points6 points ago

Yeah I looked back over it before I moved on, seen that it was posted there and went "wait.....what?"

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

Well, they love bashing god and only god would put elephants in space just to kill them. So their showing how cruel god is. That's my bipolar manic logic at least

[–]WarAndRuin 2 points3 points ago

Yeah I've gone to that subreddit, not a fan of religion but they hate it with a passion, why I just call myself a nothing instead of a athiest

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

They hate it with karma passion. Its like r/trees without the "love"

[–]WarAndRuin 3 points4 points ago

By love do you mean weed

[–][deleted] -4 points-3 points ago

No I have weed. By "love" I mean circle jerking 9 year old boys with creepy 40 year olds watching them.

[–]nixons_dog 0 points1 point ago

It's a play on the "the earth would burn up if God put it 10 ft closer to the Sun" thing.

[–]Lord-Longbottom 0 points1 point ago

(For us English aristocrats, I leave you this 10 ft -> 0.0 Furlongs) - Pip pip cheerio chaps!

[–]DrDWayneLove 3 points4 points ago

It'd be interesting to see how many of these were posted by dummystupid himself. He is the repost king.

[–]WarAndRuin 3 points4 points ago

Which is like being king of whores

[–]HamstersOnCrack 3 points4 points ago

More like a bottom bitch.

[–]WarAndRuin 2 points3 points ago

Either way it sucks

[–]Adnachiel 2 points3 points ago

Maybe he REALLY means it.

[–]scottmale24 1 point2 points ago

Well, mine has the most karma.

[–]HeWhoWrangles 1 point2 points ago

I'm glad someone did it... I was about to have a fit.

[–]theawesomelucas -2 points-1 points ago

Why do you care so much if something is a repost? If it got upvotes, clearly SOME people were entertained by it. If you don't like it, downvote it and/or hide it. Complaining about reposts is so silly and fruitless, so why bother doing it?

[–]WarAndRuin 1 point2 points ago

It's the principal of the matter, like this has been posted 11 times. Little bit of lineage for those who repost without knowing but if you're doing it for just karma, you're doing it wrong, and being unoriginal, I'd like to think of r/funny people who post as comedians, some fail some are great and make ya laugh it's bad to steal peoples' material even if it gets a better reaction or a lesser

[–]HeWhoWrangles 1 point2 points ago

I like this guy better

[–]ccaslin6 0 points1 point ago

I love this guy.

[–]jackgh 0 points1 point ago

Thanks for the hard work! Excuse me while I go upvote every single one of those.

[–]apullin 0 points1 point ago

I take credit for starting this.

As always, this is a nice illustration or who owns an account swarm and who doesn't.

[–]Shabadu 0 points1 point ago

Legend. Nuff Said.

[–]Cyc68 0 points1 point ago

He knows.

[–]adius -1 points0 points ago

this image is funny enough to post more than once

[–]Batman_Von_Suparman2 -1 points0 points ago

WELL IT'S NEW TO ME

[–]iEatBluePlayDoh 15 points16 points ago

Wouldn't the first ones be okay?

[–]Software_Engineer 18 points19 points ago

the first ones would be crushed by the weight of the others

[–]iEatBluePlayDoh 5 points6 points ago

Touche.

[–]betterthanastick 1 point2 points ago

Assume a perfectly rigid elephant.

[–]Brando2600 2 points3 points ago

But wouldn't some of the higher ones have a softened fall and potentially be okay?

[–]85611248965111525651 -1 points0 points ago

Picture shows them lined up and going out at an angle instead of stacked so I don't see how it'd be crushed.

[–]CarrionBeetle 4 points5 points ago

You do understand how gravity works, don't you?

[–]85611248965111525651 -2 points-1 points ago

You do understand that it says end to end (ass to mouth), don't you? Also, they are pictured going out at an angle, and not one above the other. This means that they aren't going to crush each other.

[–]movzx 0 points1 point ago

Which way does gravity pull on you when you're laying down? Standing? Leaning? Why would the elephants be different?

They are one above the other. Your perception of above is wrong.

[–]Wozily 0 points1 point ago

I don't agree with what hes saying, but it can still be at an angle. The line of elephants doesn't necessarily have to be perpendicular to the tangent of the start point.

[–]CarrionBeetle 0 points1 point ago

Gravity pulls towards the center of the Earth. From our perspective, it looks like an angle. From the Earth's perspective, it is straight up. Are you proposing that gravity would pull the elephants to the bottom of the picture rather than back towards Earth?

[–]mang87 3 points4 points ago

My favourite elephant fact

[–]chubbsatwork 0 points1 point ago

Elephants are terrifying.

[–]Swamp_Fusion 35 points36 points ago

thats irrelephant to the initial statement

[–]conner91 0 points1 point ago

Nature IS neat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm3JodBR-vs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[–]starjharvey -1 points0 points ago

Damn you! You stole my comment!!

[–]mrbeefy 2 points3 points ago

The "It's a Fact" girl wants more money.

[–]khisk 2 points3 points ago

It is known.

[–]badg3r__ 0 points1 point ago

came here to say this... 2 hours too late..

[–]uofmike 2 points3 points ago

I make a point to not look at the picture until I'm done reading the words, so from the picture I saw out of the corner of my eye, I could have sworn this was going to be about a narwhal stabbing something

[–]Sharks9 2 points3 points ago

Nature sure is neat!

[–]TurtsMcGerts 2 points3 points ago

I once had an exponential growth question in math, it was approx. as follows : a normal sheet of paper is x (insert the right number) mm thick, how many times would you have to fold it in half, doubling its thickness, to reach from earth, to the moon, x (insert the right number) meters away? such a wtf question

[–]nagatake 7 points8 points ago

Yelling repost doesn't make people stop reposting, it just fills the comments section with annoying whining. Regardless of the morality of reposting, if there is such a concern, all the whining is obnoxious. Just downvote and move on.

[–]KevinGenoves3 1 point2 points ago

Like if downvoting alone can help hiding a post on the frontpage. That's why we complain: If we don't, people won't just give a fuck and do nothing. If we do, maybe someone else will downvote.

And yes, we DO need to downvote reposts. Unless you had your internet set up yesterday, I hope you'll agree.

[–]evvvad 1 point2 points ago

Here is a shocking thought for you to consider: if someone has not seen this post it is not a report to them. A great majority of redditors have not seen this post before and thus it was upvoted to the front page, where it belongs.

[–]KevinGenoves3 -1 points0 points ago

And this is why users like me are slowly going to leave Reddit. Why the fuck would we want to look at the frontpage if we've already seen 80% of it?

NOBODY NEVER THINKS OF US [sadface.jpg]

[–]evvvad 0 points1 point ago

How many hours per day does it take to keep that up? Not trying to judge, just wondering.

[–]KevinGenoves3 0 points1 point ago

Not even many, I just randomly browse when I'm bored or when the game I'm playing is loading. And this is what makes me fear that in max a year there'll be not even a single new drop of OC.

[–]evvvad 0 points1 point ago

Well, when it becomes a real problem you could make a tightly moderated subreddit or series of subreddits which only allow OC.

[–]Splatypus 5 points6 points ago

What about the rare antarctic space elephant? I though those could survive in space for days...

[–]epicGOPfail 10 points11 points ago

it's the nights that kill them. those brutal space nights.

[–]gaindude 1 point2 points ago

What we need is an ancient psychic tandem war elephant.

[–]Melonetta 1 point2 points ago

You can't control it! It has to GIVE you control!

[–]stupidpanda 0 points1 point ago

Ya, i totally heard this on Flips tips from Adult Swim

[–]gabriel1008 7 points8 points ago

Am I the only one who hasn't seen this yet? I've never seen so many comments yelling "repost"...

[–]Farn 0 points1 point ago

I haven't seen it either. Just because it's a repost doesn't make it a repost to everyone.

EDIT: mistyped stupidly.

[–]memeaddictedchick 0 points1 point ago

What?..

[–]jsteezin -3 points-2 points ago

now there's an asshole mindset. "Hey, I haven't seen it, therefore it was worthwhile wasting literally thousands of other people's time, just so I could enjoy it for a few seconds!"

[–]Farn 1 point2 points ago

It's no worse than "I've seen it before, so it should never be posted again ever. Screw anyone who missed it the first time."

[–]jsteezin -3 points-2 points ago

That's where we disagree. It depends, for me, on the popularity of the picture. If the general population has seen it once, there is really no reason for it to be posted again. However, if it never really picked up steam, and is quality content, then it's perfectly all right to repost.

[–]Farn 0 points1 point ago

How would you know if the "general population" has seen it or not? It seems like you would only know if you saw it. Even if the general population has seen it, there are still plenty who didn't, so there's nothing wrong with reposting.

[–]jsteezin 0 points1 point ago

I admit defeat, Farn. I didn't think through my previous argument well enough. However, this repost we are commenting on is incredibly blatant, and my opinion still stands that reposts are bad.

[–]the_television 2 points3 points ago

not the ones near earth.

[–]appliedphilosophy 1 point2 points ago

False. The huge pile of elephants would start collapsing. The ones underneath would die of crushing and suphocation, and the ones on top would die of the impact.

[–]the_television 0 points1 point ago

You're right...but for all the wrong reasons. Actually, the elephants would die anyway. You would die, I would die. Every single living thing on the earth would die. In time.

[–]appliedphilosophy 1 point2 points ago

wait, so would the first elephan 'not be crushed'? Man, you're crazy

[–]the_television 0 points1 point ago

waiting Are you kidding? There's probably like 1000000 fucking elephants on that bottom one. The 10000 or so that are not in orbit would flatten it like a pancake.

[–]twinkyhouse 1 point2 points ago

Well, if it was some magic-as-fuck instant stacking, they would tip over from gravity/the rotation of the earth. Could this happen fast enough to stop the bottom one from being crushed? Also, which definition of 'space' are you using? There is no standard.

Edit: Elephants can't even jump, because they weigh so much that if they did their knees would explode. Safe assumption is they're all fucked.

[–]the_television 0 points1 point ago

There is a theory that if the elephants could somehow hold on to each other, they could tower into space infinitly

[–]appliedphilosophy 1 point2 points ago

That is very very interesting, actually. Of course, 99.99999% of them would die for not having oxygen though.

[–]Biggie39 1 point2 points ago

Wow GI joe was right, knowledge is power.

[–]appliedphilosophy 1 point2 points ago

The huge pile of elephants would start collapsing. The ones underneath would die of crushing and suphocation, and the ones on top would die of the impact.

The ones in space would die of asphyxia. So, in summary, yes, the post is right.

[–]ThePsudoOne 1 point2 points ago

Neat!

[–]JakeSanchard 1 point2 points ago

Do we even have enough elephants in the world to reach the moon?

[–]electric_creamsicle 1 point2 points ago

If everybody held hands around the Earth's equator, most of them would drown.

[–]TheJayP 1 point2 points ago

Not if we genetically enhanced the elephants or gave them space suits!

[–]mecrio 1 point2 points ago

What about the ones still in the atmosphere?

[–]shitfucktits 1 point2 points ago

I wonder how many dead blue whales it would take to reach the moon

[–]dirtynicker 1 point2 points ago

If you take all the veins and arteries from your body and lay them end to end you would die.

[–]jackgh 1 point2 points ago

Fuck you all. I've never seen this and so it's not a repost. But every elephant with the exception of the first one IS a repost.

[–]pandageek 3 points4 points ago

It's also a repost!

[–]Mybbor 1 point2 points ago

Actually, only the elephants in space would die..

[–]Biggie39 2 points3 points ago

What about the elephants being crushed by other elephants.

[–]Rob_Saget 0 points1 point ago

That's neat!

[–]mattj7 0 points1 point ago

Haha! Also there's only like 20 elephants left, so they wouldnt reach very far if you stretched them end to end. Certainly not past the atmosphere.

[–]whiskeytango55 0 points1 point ago

first thing that popped into my mind

[–]YourFavoriteHippo 0 points1 point ago

How does this picture keep getting upvotes...?

[–]CarrionBeetle 0 points1 point ago

Neat Nature Fact

The moon is a chocolate chip cookie.

[–]erickster007 0 points1 point ago

If you look at it long enough it looks like a narwhal horn.

[–]JackAceHole 0 points1 point ago

"Faith is a fact"

[–]Similar_to_Bernie 0 points1 point ago

That's pretty neat.

[–]negativenoah 0 points1 point ago

elephant centipede anyone?

[–]noname9300 0 points1 point ago

Did you know that if the Earth was put on a scale then scientists would be baffled on how that scale got there

[–]shootdown 0 points1 point ago

I've seen this so many times! I don't usually give a fuck about reposts but what the shit? It wasn't even that fucking good the first time!

[–]seannino 0 points1 point ago

Aren't there only 6 elephants left on earth anyways? Obviously an odd posting. LOL

[–]skyrimmaster 0 points1 point ago

It looks like a picture of a narwhale destroying the earth...

[–]Landocalrissian1990 0 points1 point ago

Only the ones that can't breath will die. Not all of them

[–]preske 0 points1 point ago

Including the ones that are still withing earths atmosphere?

[–]JDlegendist 0 points1 point ago

Lee Mack: "You know, if you took all the chips from the Geordie people on a night out, and put them all in a pile... They'd reach out and grab those chips back."

[–]ufimizm 0 points1 point ago

A few elephants close to earth would probably survive, wouldn't they?

[–]FantomEx 0 points1 point ago

There is also a chance one could smash into a space station killing all the astronauts on board. Tragic, though it would make a great wtf photo.

[–]iDownvoteUselessCrap 1 point2 points ago

False, there is a chance one of thone on earth would live (if runs away before others fall on him.

[–]Dubskowski 0 points1 point ago

NO! no I did not know that. Thank you!

[–]zookx2 0 points1 point ago

... except for the one ALL the way on the bottom.

[–]fr00bl3t 0 points1 point ago

Image if we took every reposts in the world and laid them end to end into space...

Did you know that the OP is still a fag?

[–]alphaorionis 0 points1 point ago

Did you know that if we took all of the people on reddit and laid them end to end...

That there are some who haven't seen this post before?

[–]fr00bl3t -1 points0 points ago

Did you know if you took all the fucks I give and laid them from end to end...

Oh wait I have none.

[–]alphaorionis 0 points1 point ago

If you don't give a fuck, why did you take the time to comment on this post, and, more specifically, my comment?

[–]fr00bl3t 0 points1 point ago

To ensure that you know that I give no fucks that others haven't seen it.

[–]alphaorionis -1 points0 points ago

Well then, friend, thank you for letting me know! I appreciate that you wanted to ensure I knew your point of view, and I am glad we could peacefully and reasonably resolve our little dispute in opinion.

[–]fr00bl3t 0 points1 point ago

I tip my hat to you good sir.

Also, fuck you.

[–]alphaorionis 0 points1 point ago

My hat is tipped to you as well.

Fuck you too, good sir or madam. I do hope we meet again.

[–]cody_au -1 points0 points ago

I hate these. Oh so funny, you stole someone else's joke then replaced a word with ELEPHANTS. Hilarious. You should be a stand-up comic.

[–]TearTea -3 points-2 points ago

If you took all of the elephants in space and laid them end to end on Earth, none of them would die.

[–]Jeof -2 points-1 points ago

Even when you announce that it is a repost, they still upvote it.

[–]ElGuru -1 points0 points ago

You don't say?

[–]lbridgey -1 points0 points ago

This is stupid...but I chuckled...meh, upvote

[–]NoOneToughtOfThis -1 points0 points ago

anti joke got it

[–]kookoo831 0 points1 point ago

I could've made the front page if I posted this picture? Gah.

[–]DrunkMagicHippo -1 points0 points ago

REPOST

[–]srock456 -1 points0 points ago

this is being used too much

[–]DreadPiratesRobert -2 points-1 points ago

It's a repost but it is hilarious

[–]Globalwarmingisfake -2 points-1 points ago

This kills the elephants.

[–]kixxx_troll -2 points-1 points ago

It's a repost!

[–]buttrnutsquash -2 points-1 points ago

I swear this was just here . . .

[–]friedriceb0y -2 points-1 points ago

It's a repost!

[–]iamraging -2 points-1 points ago

Ok I don't usually get mad over this stuff but almost ALL of this guys content is reposted material, If you look at his stuff you can see it... it annoys me.

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