(I know this is about Rifftrax, but we don't have a Rifftrax community.)
Have we checked all food to see if exploding them makes them into something better or did we just stop with corn?
Let me tell you a little story about brassicas... broccoli, cabbage, bok choi, cauliflower, kohlrabi, canola oil. They're all this little guy.
Edit: Shit! I missed the exploding part. 
And yet I love broccoli but hate cauliflower.
I've been dipping stuff in hot oil for awhile now and it appears to work for most of them.
Potatoes Apples Marijuana Bananas Tulips Etc...
Bananas are a similar one to corn too. Take something almost entirely inedible and cultivate it into something edible. Makes you wonder what convinced them to start.
Starvation was probably a good motivator
Could be. We still don't know why people became sedentary farmers over hunter-gatherers, but it's happened many times in history.
Somehow, farming happened independently but around the same time around the world, between 8000 and 10000 years ago. This is everywhere from Europe to the Americas to New Guinea, all apparently independently of each other!
it was likely so humans could make booze
Saying we don't know is kinda dumb though, farming allows a population group to massively outperform a hunter gatherer group in terms of food and energy collected over a year, this allows them to have more children, and results in fewer deaths due to accidents while hunting. Farming also means fewer people are required for the same amount of food intake leaving more people free to do other things like develop tools and weapons
This all snowballs resulting in massive growth that allows the farming group to kill off or absorb any group that doesn't farm.
Same as natural selection/evolution, random choices/changes occur and the ones that lead to more children are the ones that last 1000s of years.
Most starchy things can to some degree. Rice is one of the most popular alongside corn
Lot of work for a dildo.
It's not worth it if you don't make an effort.
ITS BEEN A LOOOOOONG ROAD GETTIN FROM THERE TO HERE
THIS IS NOT TEN FORWARD!
I have altered the location. Pray I do not alter it further.
Everything's a dildo if you're brave enough.
Maybe, but an aerogel dildo wouldn't be especially fun.
country girls make do
This is what these non GMO types always seem to forget: we've been modifying the crap out of everything for the past thousands of years. We're now justuch more efficient and smart about it.
Made me think immediately about GMO and non-GMO anti-science scaredy cats.
They always picture someone in a lab with syringes and special machines to "modify DNA". Most of the time it's just a couple of potted plants under a lamp and a cotton swab. For fruit trees, you're pretty much just replacing a branch with another branch. Tape and staples might be involved.
uh-maize-ing
Sorry, i don't eat gmo /s
What about all of the other varieties of corn? Are they not relatives to each other?
Look, if you keep asking questions, we're never going to get these crappy corn husk crafts finished.
They're called tamales!
I just watched the Good Eats episode about corn so I can answer this: Yes, popcorn, hard corn, and sweet corn are all related to each other.
All the corn we eat is basically the same, this is referring to the original ancestor to all of them
All corn varieties are all the same species.
Domesticated corn can also still cross freely with the wild teosinte.
I don't know if tireless is the right word, I'm sure they had time to sleep.
They never came up with the wheel. Of course they were tireless.
Booooo! 🍅🍅🍅
You loved it and you know it.
They were in no rush because they weren't forced to make red arrow go up.
Damn I've never seen the evolution of corn like this before. Really interesting stuff!
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) tireless breeding
For real tho - any estimations on how many gens/years it took/takes to get from A to at least C?
I seem to remember Bill posting a iscorngrass.com (or similar) site on twitter back when the riff was first popular. I'm not finding it if it still exists.
corn-y
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