<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Why would pandas want to take over? What more could they want than what we do for them now? Highly protected species of great worth. Get treated royally. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 2:57 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Quoting myself:<br>
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> A far more realistic contender for the spot of top mammal would be<br>
> raccoons. They are smart, their populations are surging even within<br>
> our urban centers where they are starting to outnumber rats, and they<br>
> have opposable thumbs that allow them to operate our technology.<br>
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Even though this was a joke post, I cannot allow myself to spread <br>
misinformation especially about the specs of a living thing as biology <br>
is my first specialty. For the official record, pandas and opossums <br>
have opposable thumbs, but trash pandas unfortunately do not. Instead <br>
they have five very dexterous fingers which can reach their palms but <br>
not directly oppose one another. That buys us a little time before <br>
they take over. :)<br>
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Stuart LaForge<br>
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