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Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 23 Oct 2001 05:28:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
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> > > > We'd have to come up with some sort of practical interstellar travel • technique
> > > > first - the solar system's gonna get unlivable way before the death of the
> > > > universe. But (IMO) we're gonna be history way before that.
> > >
> > > How do you figure?
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> > > In part it depends on your definition of "we". Humanity has "stopped
> > > evolution" recently,
> >
> > When? No-one told me...
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> Too early to tell for sure but we as a species have in part stopped evolving
> because we have shut down most of the selection factors (disease, famine,
> the birth defect effect on reproduction)
Actually, I think the "mechanism" of eveolution is more to do with small
genetic changes that may not show any external effect for many generations. And
though we've started looking into such things, we're nowhere near being able to
"shut them down" even if we wanted to.
ROSCO
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| (...) Too early to tell for sure but we as a species have in part stopped evolving because we have shut down most of the selection factors (disease, famine, the birth defect effect on reproduction) As for the survival of the race, we have to get (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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