So Barbara. Almost with complete assurance we can see that 99% of humans alive today will be gone by the end of this century. Without any enhancement whatsoever there comes an end to the current crop about every century or so. That is all of us. The good the bad and the hard to look at. If we amended the constitution along the lines of o…
So Barbara. Almost with complete assurance we can see that 99% of humans alive today will be gone by the end of this century. Without any enhancement whatsoever there comes an end to the current crop about every century or so. That is all of us. The good the bad and the hard to look at. If we amended the constitution along the lines of originality as defined by our current desires rather than original content we might engineer a new subset of humans to carry on with perhaps vastly diminished numbers extracting less of a toll on Mother Earth. I would propose we seek improvements in physical properties as well. For instance, brown skin is much nicer to look at and my own white skin is a pain in the ass when exposed to the sun. Also your expertise coming from California would be invaluable in choosing a glamorous but functional line of sun glasses. The possibilities are crazy. Just crazy. We could accessorize the human condition with gmo’s. Such as replacing fingertips with claws so that just about everyone could build their own homes by burrowing. We could add thicker fur to our nearly hairless bodies. Perhaps not even needing clothes. Imagine leathery pads on our feet negating even the need for sandals as we walk the expanding hot beaches. I’m going to quit here but really I haven’t been this excited since the new colt was born last spring and will replace my pickup soon.
Pat, sometime ago I saw a cartoon….a riff on the meme of evolution with a line of “beings” represented, each an advanced stage over the prior one….starting out with a chimp, then an ape, then Neanderthal/Denisovans, then modern human….in this one the final human iteration has turned back and walks toward those in line behind him with, as I recall, saying “go back, we fu*ked up”…. I think I cut it out of the comic page and stashed it somewhere. Really rang true!
So true. While the best of us completed the journey not all of us made it successfully. Then there are the career cretins like myself who purposefully can’t let go and remain haunted in our Neanderthal souls.
So Barbara. Almost with complete assurance we can see that 99% of humans alive today will be gone by the end of this century. Without any enhancement whatsoever there comes an end to the current crop about every century or so. That is all of us. The good the bad and the hard to look at. If we amended the constitution along the lines of originality as defined by our current desires rather than original content we might engineer a new subset of humans to carry on with perhaps vastly diminished numbers extracting less of a toll on Mother Earth. I would propose we seek improvements in physical properties as well. For instance, brown skin is much nicer to look at and my own white skin is a pain in the ass when exposed to the sun. Also your expertise coming from California would be invaluable in choosing a glamorous but functional line of sun glasses. The possibilities are crazy. Just crazy. We could accessorize the human condition with gmo’s. Such as replacing fingertips with claws so that just about everyone could build their own homes by burrowing. We could add thicker fur to our nearly hairless bodies. Perhaps not even needing clothes. Imagine leathery pads on our feet negating even the need for sandals as we walk the expanding hot beaches. I’m going to quit here but really I haven’t been this excited since the new colt was born last spring and will replace my pickup soon.
You mean (maybe, if we are reading the fossil records correctly) kinda like it used to be?????
Now that you mention it.
Pat, sometime ago I saw a cartoon….a riff on the meme of evolution with a line of “beings” represented, each an advanced stage over the prior one….starting out with a chimp, then an ape, then Neanderthal/Denisovans, then modern human….in this one the final human iteration has turned back and walks toward those in line behind him with, as I recall, saying “go back, we fu*ked up”…. I think I cut it out of the comic page and stashed it somewhere. Really rang true!
So true. While the best of us completed the journey not all of us made it successfully. Then there are the career cretins like myself who purposefully can’t let go and remain haunted in our Neanderthal souls.