[ExI] Humans are a uniquely dangerous species

[Dave Sill]

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:43 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Humans are a uniquely dangerous species
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> Here is a book you two might find very interesting, even if it is rather
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> Man's Rise to Civilization, As Shown by the Indians of North America from
> Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State - Peter Farb - still
> on Amazon
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> From the grub-eating Shoshone to the civilized Zunis, this is a book you
> cannot fail to find fascinating.  It does deal with captures of members of
> other tribes.
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> bill w
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> Notice how many ancient people’s eat grubs?  Those things might be really
> tasty, and here we are missing out.  Would you eat one?  I just might.  I
> would need to drink a few beers beforehand.  Probably still barf, but at
> least then we would know.
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> Think about it: if they are larval beetles (why did I want to spell that
> beatles?) they might be just the ticket: they haven’t begun developing an
> exoskeleton, and there’s enough volume there to make it worth it.  Think
> about the other tasty but super-gross looking foods, such as… oysters.  I
> am surprised that one was ever discovered.  At some point, someone
> somewhere had to crack one of those open and say to himself: I think I will
> eat that.  He must have been totally bonkers.  Or perhaps a seashore
> community look at it, grossed out, caught a murderer, and told him: eat
> that, or we kill you.  If you survive, you go free.  He ate, survived, the
> notion spread, now we know that oysters are excellent food.
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> If we ever went to make bugs an alterative food source, grubs could be
> farmed in huge numbers at low cost.
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