Making the news today....

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

17 minutes ago, the village idiot said:

Wow!

Is that the “wow” of an adjusted focus?

[the village idiot]

2 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Is that the “wow” of an adjusted focus?

No, it was a 'wow' at the severity of the proposed control measure.

[the village idiot]

I do have some sympathy for a firing squad at 80 intervention, and an 'only replace yourself' policy. But both of these viewpoints are deeply unpopular.

[Rough Hewn]

Logan's run

[Mick Dempsey]

Good film, watched it many times.

[Haironyourchest]

I read a thing that said all lifeforms, even humans, are essentially highly complex bacteria colonies. Hence why human tissues can be grown as cultures in labs. Threads good today, just to keep it arb related, I'm splitting some massive spruce rings while I think about life...

[the village idiot]

3 minutes ago, Haironyourchest said:

I read a thing that said all lifeforms, even humans, are essentially highly complex bacteria colonies. Hence why human tissues can be grown as cultures in labs. Threads good today, just to keep it arb related, I'm splitting some massive spruce rings while I think about life...

We have at least as many 'non human' bacterial cells in our bodies as we do 'human' cells. In terms of cell count we are more bacterial than human. It is quite legitimate to think of us as food gathering host vehicles for our bacterial overlords if you're that way inclined.

[difflock]

Twas a wile pity Hitler gave Eugenics such a bad name, and yes, I appreciate nature tends towards the norm.

but  .  .  .

Most of the most successful breeders in our local community,

well,

lets just say that is about all they are good at, or interested in, or this is what the evidence of how they live their lives would indicate.

cheers

marcus

[Mick Dempsey]

Well I for one welcome the arrival of our bacterial overlords.

[the village idiot]

7 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Well I for one welcome the arrival of our bacterial overlords.

They're already here Mick. They've been here for 18,500 times longer than we have.

 

Humans evolved from them and in direct partnership with them.

 

It's pretty humbling to think about, but the DNA in our mitochondria (the cells that provide us with all our energy) is bacterial. We would not exist without bacteria, we exist with their 'help'. They would be perfectly fine without us.

 

No planning has gone into this situation of course, bacteria have no 'intent' that we know of, and evolution through natural selection is blind. 

 

Certainly food for thought though.