I am well aware of this concept of "belters", but I just think it's a complete waste to ruin so many lives. And not to mention so many resources when it's all out there. We already have the technology to analyze, sort and crush rocks and sort the end result to a very fine degree. We have 3d printers that can print metal, we have solar panels that would work, we have the ability to make scanners and powerful lasers, we are able to control robots on another planet. To me it's more incredible that we're still not able to connect the dots and start getting a few robots working, should be less complicated than sending people to Mars and back.
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But I guess we can just file this under the increasingly longer list of "If KaffiMann was absolutel dictator of the world".
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But I guess we can just file this under the increasingly longer list of "If KaffiMann was absolutel dictator of the world".
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Just noticed an article on MSN mentioning Darwinian evolution and our nearing it's end while the technological evolution is in it's beginning stages still. If that's true we're in for a wild ride. If Darwinian evolution ends in our condition I'm terrified to think what we're going to do with our unwitting invention. 
One of the reasons organisms evolve is because they are ‘challenged’ or newer, easier to exploit niches open up. This could be due to climate change, ecological niches opening up, getting pushed out of an existing niche etc.
For the last 10 k years, humans have not had anything to challenge their position at the top of the pile. We don’t occupy a single niche because of our adaptability and we have up until now been able to cope.
It might be that climate change forces adaptations to our genetic makeup but it’s unlikely. The global human population is more likely to ebb and flow with the ability of the environment to support us. So, we may indeed be at the end of our evolutionary development.
For the last 10 k years, humans have not had anything to challenge their position at the top of the pile. We don’t occupy a single niche because of our adaptability and we have up until now been able to cope.
It might be that climate change forces adaptations to our genetic makeup but it’s unlikely. The global human population is more likely to ebb and flow with the ability of the environment to support us. So, we may indeed be at the end of our evolutionary development.
If all it's been is a matter of survival we stopped evolving at the hunter/gatherer stage. Which does beg the question..why do we even know more than that? I've always thought with us it's a matter of curiosity, pandora's box. But then even raccoons are curious. I think evolution itself is just another one of our inventions.
So, that's why drywallers' arms haven't got longer!
In fact, human arms have decreased in length due to evolution.
The advantage of longer arms faded out when our species began to spend more and more time on the ground.
Fully upright locomotion is more efficient when forelimbs/arms are shortened.
The net direction of evolutionary change was an increase in relative leg length and a smaller decrease in relative arm length.
The simple test that proves the theory of evolution | Daily Mail Online
"prove" is a strong word here, no? More appropriate would be 'suggest', and imo not even 'strongly'. Declarations don't amount to proof. It hardly puts that controversy to rest.
btw, I once had a partner who was shorter than me but could reach higher. In fact he could palm an 8' ceiling. I can only set my second knuckle on it.
He had red hair if that's any indication.
btw, I once had a partner who was shorter than me but could reach higher. In fact he could palm an 8' ceiling. I can only set my second knuckle on it.
He had red hair if that's any indication.
Although evolution is controversial in the public arena, it is entirely uncontroversial among experts in the field.
Biologists do not consider any one species, such as humans, to be more highly evolved or advanced than another.
Nor does evolution require that humans become more complex.
I was wandering down the street the other week, as one does.
I picked up this strange but interesting object.
What the Hell is it? I quickly figured it out to need to be filled with water. Because I am a fish-like species.
Changes colour from Red to Blue. Blows bubbles. Unfortunate design fault: hums most horribly due to the badly designed electric motor which might keep you awake at night. But interesting. Don't know how it relates to Axions.
I picked up this strange but interesting object.
What the Hell is it? I quickly figured it out to need to be filled with water. Because I am a fish-like species.
Changes colour from Red to Blue. Blows bubbles. Unfortunate design fault: hums most horribly due to the badly designed electric motor which might keep you awake at night. But interesting. Don't know how it relates to Axions.
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It’s the absolutist statements we have no real proof for that I’m skeptical about.
“Highly evolved”, “lowly evolved”, “evolved is evolved”. This is the kind of topic riddled with philosophy.
Evolved or not, I will be bold, no.. brave enough to declare us the most superior of all organisms in the Universe!
I’m referring to just you and me Galu. 😎
You're stretching it a bit to include . . . me! 
Evolved or not, there's no way I can deny that I've inherited a small percentage of my DNA from Neanderthals.
However, a recent study has found no statistically significant association between Neanderthal DNA and hair colour.
So give flame people a break!
Evolved or not, there's no way I can deny that I've inherited a small percentage of my DNA from Neanderthals.
However, a recent study has found no statistically significant association between Neanderthal DNA and hair colour.
So give flame people a break!
That guy in the mirror looks like an old family friend. I'm actually not kidding. This guy was about 4' 10, bowed legs, club feet, hands with short fingers double wide, hairy as an ape(man), very similar facial features. We knew he was a genetic freak. But he was of average intelligence and amazingly could play the accordion well with those obtrusive fingers of his. He only touched the edges of the keys.
oh, he had three daughters that were all tall and gorgeous.
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oh, he had three daughters that were all tall and gorgeous.
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It should be remembered that Neantherdals had brains that were larger than modern humans (c. 1.4l capacity in modern humans vs 1.6l with a few individuals at 1.7l In Neantherdals). A staggering level of encephalization by any measure.
When I was at college we also had a fellow student that kind of looked like the one on the left above. I would not want to get into a rumble with him. But, he was a docile, nice guy that took an enormous amount of jib from the rest of us. The largest hands I have ever seen on an individual.
A genetic throwback?
The highest levels of Neantherdal genes in the human genome are found in northern Italy where they peak in some individuals at just under 4%. This is where Maserati’s, Lamborghini’s and Ferrari’s are made. Go figure.
When I was at college we also had a fellow student that kind of looked like the one on the left above. I would not want to get into a rumble with him. But, he was a docile, nice guy that took an enormous amount of jib from the rest of us. The largest hands I have ever seen on an individual.
A genetic throwback?
The highest levels of Neantherdal genes in the human genome are found in northern Italy where they peak in some individuals at just under 4%. This is where Maserati’s, Lamborghini’s and Ferrari’s are made. Go figure.
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You're stretching it a bit to include . . . me!
Evolved or not, there's no way I can deny that I've inherited a small percentage of my DNA from Neanderthals.
However, a recent study has found no statistically significant association between Neanderthal DNA and hair colour.
So give flame people a break!
The guy on the left looks completely Scottish.
I did have a sense of that while contemplating your post.I have a feeling of déjà vu here!
It's been a long thread, but I'm sure you've mentioned your old family friend before.
And I seem to remember making a reply like this - could the above accordianist be one of his daughters?
I don't think I said his daughters played the accordion but now that I think of it, his oldest daughter's accordion was the one he would take out and play for us once in a blue moon. Polka
I prefer to cast myself in this mode:The guy on the left looks completely Scottish.
Or, alternatively, "Up Yer Kilt", Bonsai!
Well our friend, RIP, was a tobacco farmer and quick tempered when circumstances called for it. I remember one summer when the young field workers showed up for the picking season. This was high paced hard, back breaking work picking tobacco leaves while a sled boat pulled by a horse moved briskly down the rows. You had to keep up. Anyway one kid who claimed he had experience got a swift upside the head when he asked Mihaly "what do I do?" and got sent on his way with a fat finger pointing in the direction.
This is uncanny! Maddie looks like Brooke Baldwin on CNN.I prefer to cast myself in this mode:
Or, alternatively, "Up Yer Kilt", Bonsai!
I prefer to cast myself in this mode:
Or, alternatively, "Up Yer Kilt", Bonsai!
I’ve had my DNA sequenced BTW. 3% Scottish, 80% Irish on the paternal side. Wonder what my long dead old man would say to that since he considered himself a dyed in the wool Englishman and Londoner - and especially with the Russell family name although there is a small Highland cluster and then an even smaller Irish Russell branch.
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