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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><br><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>>…during the Carboniferous Era … there was nearly twice as much oxygen in the air as now (forest fires must have been a bitch) and about 3 times as much CO2; Yet<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>the most advanced land animals at the time were 9 foot millipedes, dragonflies the size of falcons, and 18 inch long cockroaches… John K Clark</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ok so we have bred dogs of all sizes from wolves in only a few hundred <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>generations. Wouldn’t it be cool to try to set up a big tent or some kind <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>of sealed bio-sphere and start trying to breed up these monsters again? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Could you even imagine the fun we could have with a freaking 18 inch cock<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>roach? It would be perfectly safe too: if he got loose and escaped the lab<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (imagine that, you know how people freak out over a little 3 inch cock<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>roach, well you know they would go insane over an 18 incher, wooohooo!)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>well, he would just suffocate and go limp.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oh and those dragonflies, I would like to try to create them, just to eat it. It might<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>sound rather unappetizing, but consider how gross a prawn looks. Think about it,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>a dragonfly, one big enough to have some actual meat on that tail, might be a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>delicacy undevoured by humankind, cool!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>