What Has Science Done?

What Has Science Done?

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"What Has Science Done?" is an expression conveying astonishment or horror at the power of scientific experiments or manmade creations. It is often used to caption images depicting bizarre inventions and photoshopped animal hybrids similar to Where is Your God Now?.

Origin

The catchphrase originated in the pilot episode "Rabbot" for the Adult Swim cartoon show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which aired on December 30th, 2000. In the episode, after a rabbit-like robot named "Rabbot" escapes from a laboratory, the character Dr. Weird laments the circumstance by exclaiming "What has science done?"



On March 31st, 2002, the earliest known use of the phrase online was posted on page 197 of the "Cliff Yablonski Hates These People" photo gallery on the Internet humor site Something Awful.[9] In the gallery, a photo of a boy in a green shirt is shown crouching over another boy with the caption "What has science done?!! Don't answer that you inbred horselovers" (shown below).


WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?!! Don't answer that questionyou inbred horselovers

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The earliest known use of the phrase on the image board 4chan[1] appeared in a bunny pictures thread in the /b/ (random) board on December 24th, 2006. In the thread, the expression was used as a reaction to a photoshopped picture of a rabbit with a cat's face (shown below).


2> File 1166990599418ipg-(36 KB, 400x300, 1166808166842.jpg) >> □ Anonymous 12/24/06(Sun)15:08:16 No.17805248 P> 17805041 WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE

On July 22nd, 2007, the North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club Forums[3] member fuzzycuffs started a thread titled "What has science done?! Baconsalt", which linked to a website for the bacon-flavored food product BaconSalt.[4] On December 26th, 2008, the first Urban Dictionary[2] definition was submitted by user Profani, who definined the phrase as an awe-struck expression.


1. What has science done? 37 up, 5 down An internet meme which is often used to describe something extraordinary, commonly a rare creativity which has a relation to science s a whole. Person A: Hey, look at this: link Person B: What is it? Person A: Look for yourself, I call it the multitude-bathduck-replicator Person B: WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE? buy what has science done? mugs & shirts science scienc sience what wat Deac 26, 2008 s hare this add a video Profani

On March 30th, 2009, NeoGAF[5] forums member Eteric Rice submitted a thread titled "What has science done? … Objection!", including an image of the actor Christian Bale photoshopped to resemble the character Phoenix Wright from the Nintendo DS video game series Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (shown below, left). On May 16th, 2010, DeviantArt[6] user DashMartin submitted an illustration of a genetically engineered creature titled "What has science done??" (shown below, right).



On October 6th, 2011, Redditor bahji submitted a post titled "What has science done!"[7], featuring a photograph of an automated pancake machine (shown below, left). Prior to being archived, the post received over 2,800 up votes and 180 comments. On February 6th, 2012, Redditor GashcatUnpunished submitted another post titled "What has science done?!"[8], including a photograph of engineer Calvin Rickson with a caption explaining that he had designed a special bra to keep women's nipples from pushing through the fabric (shown below, right).


CERTIF PANCAKES in about a minute okes press here Calvin Rickson, an engineer from Texas A&M University has designed a bra that keeps women's breasts from iggling, bouncing up and down, and stops n------ from pushing through the fabric when cold weather sets in.

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On YouTube, footage of strange video game modifications have been uploaded with the title "What has science done?"


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[1] Chanarchive – Bunday

[2] Urban Dictionary – What has science done?

[3] NASIOC – What has science done?

[4] BaconSalt.com – Bacon Salt

[5] NeoGAF – What has science done? … OBJECTION!

[6] DeviantArt – What has science done

[7] Reddit – what has science done!

[8] Reddit – What has Science done?!

[9] Something Awful – Cliff Yablonski Hates People

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