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A little off topic

  • 12-05-2008 10:54am
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    atilladehun
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    David Attenborough summarises at the end of his series 'Life in cold blood' that a reptile is solar powered and thus uses 10% of the energy of a mammal of the same size. Then he says something along the lines of maybe we can learn something from them.

    This got me thinking today. Maybe we are a bad design? maybe we won't be able to fix this problem, maybe we're built to continually grow in every dimension, consumption, intelligence, population. Until we capitulate. We started off as a fraction of the beings we are now.

    Dinosaurs were a bad build, granted one type were wiped out by a comet but the previous incarnations died off too? (I'm not that into dinos just the odd documentary really and that thing that was in the zoo in the nineties)

    I'm not really a pesimist about this, just playing a role of devils advocat I hadn't thought much about before. What if we an imperfect dna build (i'm no biologist either, but i think you'll get me)

    Reptiles have crossed over several earthly incarnations. Is there much on them being endangered on the same scale as fish or birds or the big wild animals?


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  • #2
    mike65
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    Really for the Science forum this :)

    I reckon our long tern evolutionary design (if we survive long enough) is to get taller and heavier in the medium term then to either end up loosing our limbs and be mainly a torso and brain or end up back on all fours and scrapping with other wildlife.

    Mike.


  • #3
    djpbarry
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    mike65 wrote: »
    I reckon our long tern evolutionary design (if we survive long enough) is to get taller and heavier in the medium term then to either end up loosing our limbs and be mainly a torso and brain ...
    I've always thought quadriplegics had a certain "I'm more evolved than you" smugness about them.


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