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2006-10-17, 03:27 PM
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If there is nobody out there, that's a lot of real estate going to waste!
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Human species 'may split in two'
Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.
The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm |
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2006-10-17, 10:15 PM
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Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip!
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Yeah, that was a fun and interesting article.
I don't know that I buy his speculations, but we can already see breeding differentiation between the classes. It's interesting to think about where we'll be in a thousand years. We'll be burning the last and worst of the coal and oil shales by that time. If we've been lucky. |
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2006-10-18, 07:13 AM
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That which does not kill us, will try, try again.
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I'm not buying into his conclusions, but I'm pretty sure there is more than one "human" species already, and some that barely qualify to be called that. Our breeding patterns may eventually make things more evident, but the differences are already there to see.
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2006-10-18, 07:57 AM
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You can't disprove anything with evidence that doesn't exist
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I consider his conclusion, and the way it was written, as "this is one possible scenario".
To have genetical differences enough to warrant another species takes a lot. Though as a whole it does have some merit.
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2006-10-18, 08:03 AM
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Former pr0n slinger.
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I thought the world would end in 2012. Ah well we'll see
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2006-10-18, 08:10 AM
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Lonewolf Internet Sales
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Humans are the only species on the planet that allows their misfits to breed.
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2006-10-18, 04:00 PM
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Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little... push.
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Be afraid of the machines! When the computers start thinking for us we'll all become hobgoblins for the mechanical mind!!! |shocking|
Sorry... I couldn't resist. It's funny how this author assumes most people live, or will live, in highly developed, post-industrial, high tech conditions. I thought more people in this world lived in pre-high-tech conditions. 
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