In order to find a legitimate comparison for the most anticipated and hotly debated product of all time, we had to stray outside the world of consumer goods ...
Geniuses tend to only be geniuses on one subject. Just as you don't ask Peyton Manning for soccer tips, you don't ask a veterinarian to do your prostate exam. And you really don't want to ask William Shockley about genetics.
If you thought interspecies friendships were limited to Disney movies and the Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater, you'd be wrong.
Sorry guys, watching porn still deosn't make you a love machine.
Outside of ruining the space-time continuum (let's face it, you'd do so purposefully), turns out you're pretty well dooming yourself as well.
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Or you could spend three straight months of hurriedly trying to build a pyramid of corpses on a train track in 'Red Dead Redemption' before the train can come along to obliterate them.
Science: Fiction's wet blanket since forever.
Next time you're offered a muffin, whip this article out and continue stuffing that Big Mac down your throat.
Not unlike Clark Kent, babies everywhere have managed to fool the world with their mild-mannered public persona, masking the amazing superpowers nearly all of them possess.
We would probably all be flying to work on rocket motorcycles by now if history's greatest geniuses hadn't spent their entire careers arguing over who had the biggest Bunsen burner.
Most experienced surgeons and doctors will say they've seen it all. Most surgery is fairly routine, and it's only occasionally that you slice somebody open and some really crazy shit pops out. But when it does, man, crazy is definitely not an over-exaggeration.
All these experiments were very real and sounded very awesome. On the surface. The truth was a very different kind of animal.
People can't drive worth a shit. On the road, we're a bunch of inconsiderate jerks and science has proven it.
The people that take the abstract concepts of art and the concrete realities of science and mix them together are just as crazy as you'd expect.