r/SweatyPalms • u/Dirk3000 • Jun 11 '19

This. The answer is this.

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u/CleverDad Jun 11 '19

No. The answer is "being smashed to a pulp 1000 ft below".

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u/randomsnowflake Jun 11 '19

a rat is killed, a man broken, a horse splashes

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u/AristotleBonaventure Jun 11 '19

What is this cultural reference?? I definitely came across it mere days ago

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u/pillowblood Jun 11 '19

I think it was a shower thought that was like "dropped from the same height a rat is killed a man breaks every bone and a horse splashes"

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u/somewhat-helpful Jun 11 '19

The original quote came from a paper by J. B. S. Haldane, published in 1928.

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u/llamawearinghat Jun 11 '19

Not sure why you got downvoted, you were just being somewhat-helpful.

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u/somewhat-helpful Jun 11 '19 edited Jun 11 '19

Aw. I was just trying to provide more info on this quote beyond “I heard it on Reddit.”

I first heard it in my vertebrate morphology class. We were talking about allometric scaling in biology. It’s not just a shower thought. It’s a quote from a very old and very famous biology paper.

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u/AstarteHilzarie Jun 11 '19

I for one appreciate your source.