Feeling famished? Serve yourself a double portion of light.

[Thropplenoggin]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/14/living-on-light-without-food

I post this only to read what our eminent scientific minds have to say on this lunacy.

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...t-without-food

I post this only to read what our eminent scientific minds have to say on this lunacy.

A previously unheard of version of Enlightenment, perhaps...

[amateur51]

A previously unheard of version of Enlightenment, perhaps...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

damn what if she pulls it off?

[vinteuil]

... I'm sure we've had this lunacy before - I couldn't say whether it was ten or twenty years ago - of people believing they could live on "light".

If I remember aright, people died following such precepts.

[umslopogaas]

It is utter nonsense to suggest that humans can live on light, because unlike green plants they have no mechanism for harnessing it, but if she's got plenty of fat reserves and drinks enough water, she could probably go 100 days without food and survive. Mind you, I think she's bonkers and I shant lose much sleep if she starves herself to death.

[cloughie]

... I'm sure we've had this lunacy before - I couldn't say whether it was ten or twenty years ago - of people believing they could live on "light".

I'd sooner have "bitter"!

[french frank]

Ah, I see. So I don't need to remove this to The Refreshment Room ...

What she would need to prove is that after the 100 days she was as fit and well as she was when she started. Anyone can fast until their organs give out.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I'd sooner have "bitter"!

I'm reminded of my school German teacher who loved to mutter under his breath, "He asked for Dunkel and she gave him Hell." I daresay not many of us forgot those particular elements of Ger. vocab. when it came to O-Level

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm reminded of my school German teacher who loved to mutter under his breath, "He asked for Dunkel and she gave him Hell." I daresay not many of us forgot those particular elements of Ger. vocab. when it came to O-Level

If you couldn't answer the questions, you'd look for the Ausfahrt.

[MrGongGong]

Totally bonkers
But no more ridiculous than the basic beliefs of Christianity which also fly in the face of scientific knowledge

[LeMartinPecheur]

I'm reminded of my school German teacher who loved to mutter under his breath, "He asked for Dunkel and she gave him Hell." I daresay not many of us forgot those particular elements of Ger. vocab. when it came to O-Level

Should have added that in my day for some reason, Ger. O-level didn't often include questions on how to order a beer! Sadly, I've not got back there as an adult to use this priceless knowledge....