[extropy-chat] Re: Hybrids

[Kevin Freels]

But would they stay seperate for any reasonable length of time? At some
point, ocean girl and land boy, two star-crossed lovers, are going to fall
in love. Ocean girl is going to become pregnant and ocean amphibian will be
born. ...... or ocean baby with land genes hidden, or land baby with ocean
genes.....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Grant" <paulgrant999 at hotmail.com>
To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 2:11 AM
Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Re: Hybrids


> 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.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Kevin
> Freels
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:05 AM
> To: sjvans at ameritech.net; ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Re: Hybrids
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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.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> To: <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:32 PM
> 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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