Video: Depressing mid-day palate cleanser
posted at 3:15 pm on February 13, 2008 by Allahpundit
If you thought that Jeff Foxworthy show was discouraging, just wait.
Watch the clip here about the Ghost Experiment when you’re done. It’ll cheer you right up.
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I can honestly say I wouldn’t have though of that, at least for a while. Although this balances out any inferiority complex this Chimp just gave me.
Geronimo on February 13, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Obama pumped enough hope into the air that anything became possible – the chimped believed!!
Grafted on February 13, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Dude. This is a thread about chimps. This isn’t the place for a video of a Daily Kos blogger in his natural habitat. Let’s keep this on topic, please.
amerpundit on February 13, 2008 at 3:23 PM
I am so depressed now. Thanks.
Vizzini on February 13, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Ahh…but who’s in the cage?
JetBoy on February 13, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Well, at least he didn’t pee in it.
BacaDog on February 13, 2008 at 3:26 PM
I though of it. The same puzzle and solution was used in the Eddie Murphy movie Metro.
Now, admittedly, when I first watched Metro I didn’t think of it. But I was like 13 at the time.
locke on February 13, 2008 at 3:26 PM
thought*
locke on February 13, 2008 at 3:27 PM
It makes me cry a little every time I see it. And then he goes back for seconds. Yuck.
Geronimo on February 13, 2008 at 3:30 PM
No, but that would’ve been even MORE ingenious if the water dish had been empty, now wouldn’t it?
RMCS_USN on February 13, 2008 at 3:35 PM
I thought for sure that was how he would solve the problem!
Maybe he is smarter, for using his drinking water… LOL
rockbend on February 13, 2008 at 3:35 PM
I guess I didn’t think about spitting into the tube, but I guess if that’s the way he likes his snacks….more power to him.
I’ll be gasping in admiration when he holds down a job and drives himself to the store to buy his peanuts in a regular pop-top can, but until then….
yawn
Vanquisher on February 13, 2008 at 3:36 PM
I would have smashed the tube.
pseudonominus on February 13, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Yep. :)
RushBaby on February 13, 2008 at 3:43 PM
I thought of the water instantly (my question was ‘does it float’). I just didn’t come up with how to get the water to the tube. Chimps got me there. . . although I didn’t see the resources and I didn’t have time to think it through.
ThackerAgency on February 13, 2008 at 3:47 PM
Water was the first thing I thought of, but I wasn’t sure if it was available to the chimp.
rivlax on February 13, 2008 at 3:47 PM
But if you put something at the bottom of a jar with an opening just big enough for their hand, you can trap a monkey. They won’t think to let go of the item to get their hand out (because their fist is too big for the hole).
Smart in some ways, not in others.
ThackerAgency on February 13, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Mmmmmmmmm, wet peanuts!
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on February 13, 2008 at 3:50 PM
I’m not gonna make a
welfaregovernment assistance analogy here cuz itmightwill be misconstrued.geckomon on February 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Lydia seemed really disappointed in how the Ghost Experiment turned out, didn’t she?
DrSteve on February 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Many years ago I heard of a similar experiment – on MIT psychology students!
Two groups were presented with the same challange: retrieve a ping pong ball from the bottom of a long, fixed, vertical pipe. One group also had a table with glasses and pitchers of ice water in the room. The second group had a large pail of dirty water over in the corner of the room. Only one group figured it out.
fred5678 on February 13, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Yeah, the chimp was great at problem-solving. Then he ate the peanut off the dirty ground, which he had probably peed on not too long before, using the hand he had probably recently used to explore his anal orifice and/or fling poo with. Admiration for our “furry cousins” only goes so far.
aero on February 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM
If she gave them 200 grapes before letting them try themselves, don’t you think that they might just be full? Maybe they COULD do the task, but they didn’t want any more grapes.
ThackerAgency on February 13, 2008 at 4:22 PM
HAH! That’s my point. Very Good! I mean, that’s really not a viable test of your intelligence over the chimp is it?
First, this assumes you spend your time in a cage with only a peanut in a glass tube for a meal. If that were the case, I’d be thinking up ways to get the damn peanut too! Second, this assumes that viewing that video gives you the same perspective on available options to problem solve this equation as the chimp. It clearly does not based on some of the comments here. No where can I see that he has access to water in that cage. Without all the variables, I’m impressed with the intelligence of the human beings around here who thought of that without it right in front of their faces. Now, if the chimp didn’t have water and then wrote a sign asking for water I might be impressed. As it stands, whoever said it here first I’m with ya, whose in the cage and who isn’t. Humans 1 Chimp ‘still in cage’…
Sultry Beauty on February 13, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Well, I’ll be a……………….
Shy Guy on February 13, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Was that ChimpyMcBushHaliburtHitler?
max1 on February 13, 2008 at 4:40 PM
…Monkey’s uncle?”
hahahahaha That’s a good one. He is, um…trapped in a human’s cage, after all. “monkey one humans zero.” Can these Nat’l Geographic people be any more ridiculous?
And just for the record, I thought he was gonna suck it right out the tube. Monkeys have pretty powerful lungs I think.
inviolet on February 13, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Bet he couldn’t do that after slamming ten Budweisers.
benrand on February 13, 2008 at 4:50 PM
The British scientist in the ghost thing video is flaming hot
Baphomet on February 13, 2008 at 4:53 PM
That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the tube. But I didn’t see any water so I thought “uh oh” this guys going to fill it with pee
spacekicker on February 13, 2008 at 4:58 PM
That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the tube. But I didn’t see any water so I thought “uh oh” this guys going to fill it with pee
spacekicker on February 13, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Mmmm good … peanut salty !
max1 on February 13, 2008 at 5:01 PM
At least the monkey didn’t pee into the tube.
Neo on February 13, 2008 at 5:07 PM
People say cats are soooo smart because they can use a toilet and open doors and such. Of course the people saying that must not have owned a cat for more than a few weeks. Anyone who has would tell you that out of the blue the “smart” cat will suddenly poop on the top of the couch, or on your pillow on your bed.
Neo on February 13, 2008 at 5:11 PM
I’m completely with the rest of you. I was sure he’d pee in it.
Beatnik Joe on February 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Kewl, I actually thought of that. Just because I remembered the Esop Fable with the bird and teh piture of water . . only applied in reverse. But then again, Monkey is one of my nicknames.
- The Cat
MirCat on February 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM
The chimp clearly watches “Letterman” at night. The “Will It Float” sketch did peanuts awhile back.
(just kidding)
kutabeach on February 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM
P.S. pitcher even. Wow, not good timing to do that.
MirCat on February 13, 2008 at 5:15 PM
So what happens when we mix chimps with Skynet?
Meryl Yourish on February 13, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Now if he could just figure out how to get out of the cage.
Chimp, 1
Humans, 1
Kmarion on February 13, 2008 at 5:17 PM
If the chimp couldn’t see the cord how is that teaching it? I mean he looks up and sees a grape pop out. That’s how he thinks it works. I bet she’s walked into an out of order automatic door before, seriously.
- The Cat
MirCat on February 13, 2008 at 5:20 PM
A Schwarzenegger that throws aluminum poo.
- The Cat
MirCat on February 13, 2008 at 5:22 PM
I thought he was going to pee in it.
Great primates think (somewhat) alike.
profitsbeard on February 13, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Dude! Have you been following me?
ronsfi on February 13, 2008 at 5:56 PM
OK, now that we’ve seen Allahpundit solving the puzzle, when do we get to see the chimp video?
Hollowpoint on February 13, 2008 at 6:04 PM
obviously fitted with the Karl Rove cerebral implant
Lily on February 13, 2008 at 6:12 PM
LOL my wife just said: “I figured he was gonna make it float but, I though he was gonna pee in it”.
boomer on February 13, 2008 at 6:43 PM
These things just encourage groups like PETA.
Human 0
Chimp 1
Kini on February 13, 2008 at 6:50 PM
I can honestly say I wouldn’t have though of that, at least for a while. Although this balances out any inferiority complex this Chimp just gave me.
Geronimo on February 13, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Geronimo 1
Chimp 0
Thanks, Geronimo. I feel better about human beings again. (I’m reaching for anything after watching that monkey get the peanut…)
Skidd on February 13, 2008 at 7:00 PM
I would have used a torch to remove the door, and then turned the door upside down until the peanut rolled out.
.
That, or dynamite.
AZCON on February 13, 2008 at 7:03 PM
See, that’s using higher critical thinking only humans are capable of.
AZCON 1
Chimp 0
I think…
Skidd on February 13, 2008 at 7:41 PM
The ghost experiment was interesting, but not surprising once the announcing said the chimps live in Bastrop, TX.
/lives in Dallas
//not impressed with folks in Bastrop
corbettw on February 13, 2008 at 7:43 PM
Yeah, Allah, more Lydia Hopper videos!
thegreatbeast on February 13, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Thats what I thought he was gonna do!
That chimp has etiquette!
Chakra Hammer on February 13, 2008 at 7:48 PM
National Geographic called that dumb, flea-bitten, subservient, dependent caged simian a “genius”.
Chimp 1
Humans 0
jgapinoy on February 13, 2008 at 8:06 PM
He spit in a tube, WE WALKED ON THE FRIGGIN MOON!
BDavis on February 13, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Yet they beat us and the Russians in the space race.
:)
Shy Guy on February 13, 2008 at 11:56 PM
I, almost instantly, assumed that he would pee into the tube.
This is so not a big deal depressing deal. Sorry.
urbancenturion on February 14, 2008 at 12:19 AM
In the “ghost experiment,” it probably wasn’t so much that he was full as much as the fact that the machine was doing it for him. Why would he bother?
CraigC on February 14, 2008 at 12:26 AM
The leader says he hasn’t been given “this puzzle” before. Somehow I suspect he has been given a puzzle where water was the solution. I wouldn’t put a little dishonesty past NOVA.
John on February 14, 2008 at 12:44 AM
While watching the clip I was trying to understand the parameters and limitations. The text referred to a fix flask with a nut inside, with the task being to remove the nut from the flask without detaching the flask.
I wondered if the flask was attached in such as way that it could be revolved or rotated upside down, or if it were fixed so it could not be rotated.
When I saw that the flask was attached at the top and the bottom, with an opening at the top of the flask, the first thing I though of was raising the nut to the top of the flask by getting the nut to float to the top. The solution? Filling the flask with fluid, if any were available.
It turns out there was water inside the chimp’s enclosure, although I did not see the water there, but the chimp used it, floated the nut to the top, and extracted the nut.
So, Chimp 1, William 1.
Another trick Chimps often use is a form of tooling, in which they’ll use a twig or stick, insert that twig into a termite hill, extract the stick fill of termites, and have a nice supper.
They also wash food, such as potatoes, in the sea.
Of course, the other day I saw a chimp cooking Saag Paneer and Naan Bread, and mixing Mango Lassi in an Indian restaurant. When he saw me he said “Namaste.”
His name is Mahatma Chimpananda Ji, Master Chef, and high IQ club member – 199.
William2006 on February 14, 2008 at 7:26 AM
Chimp intelligence is a threat to all mankind. Today it’s peanuts, tomorrow they could controlling all our oil reserves, then form a single world government through which they could enslave the human race.
Haven’t you ever seen the Planet of the Apes movies!
Nuke ‘em now.
Lone Star on February 14, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Life imitates art, Lone Star?
jgapinoy on February 14, 2008 at 11:43 AM