[extropy-chat] Re: Hybrids

[Paul Grant]

Thats an easy one :) people who are land-mammals, and people who are
genetically engineered for survival in the ocean.
There you go; a split that would lead to two seperate species.


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Given the number of people engaging in farm animal sex, let alone people
who appear "different" from themselves, I hardly see how humans could
ever split into different species unless there was absolutely no contact
between two groups for hundreds of thousands of years. There would also
have to be several changes in environment that kept the two isolated
places changing in different ways. Heck, Bonobos and Chimps are
seperated by 3 million years.

Assuming we were able to keep our technology, I have trouble envisioning
an advanced civilization capable of altering its own evolution that
wasn;t also constantly intermixing.


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Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Re: Hybrids


>
>
> From: Robert J. Bradbury bradbury at aeiveos.com
>
> >The above discussion suggests that there would possibly be three 
> >potential civilization cores -- those centered around nuclear 
> >vessels, those centered around nuclear power reactors and those 
> >centered around hydroelectric power centers.
>
> Huh?  I am getting into this late, but could someone explain to me how
this
> hypothetical "extinction level event" would wipe out fossil fuels?  
> Coal mines and oil fields are 19th and very early 20th century
technology...much
> easier to maintain and preserve than nuclear power plants.  With a 
> hypothetically much reduced population, known reserves and even stored

> supplies would last a very long time.  I'd much rather try my hand at 
> distilling straight gasoline from crude or making producer gas from 
> coal than refuel a nuclear power plant.
>
> sjv
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