[extropy-chat] evolution and bee tracheas

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Thu Jun 8 09:02:45 UTC 2006


On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:13:32PM -0700, The Avantguardian wrote:

> As it is, I doubt that any apocalypse - technological,
> asteroidal, or otherwise would put so much as a dent

Do you know any insects who can survive in molten lava?
Or simply in water at 140 C, for that matter?

> in the insect supremacy. Should self-replicating
> misanthropic AIs ever manage to knock us off our

They don't have to be misantrophic, just uncaring.

> pedestal, I am rather confident that there will still
> be cockroaches scurrying around under the Terminator's
> metallic feet.

So if you strip-mine the planet for carbon, and nuke
off the volatiles your cockroaches will scamper on
bare rock, in a vacuum?
 
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