Wibbs wrote: » Pretty much as insurgent said. We're evolving genetically faster now than at any other time in our history as a species. At the gene level we're quite different in many ways than we were 20,000 years ago. Localised appearance is one example. White skin is relatively recent. Blonde hair and blue eyes even moreso(AFAIR only 10,000 years old as a look in humans). We're even very different in certain areas than we were 6/7,000 years ago(mostly to do with adaptations to diet). The bigger the population involved the more mutations and genetic drift will occur. As we're not likely to see any serious isolation happening, I dunno how likely speciation will be and a "new" human may come about, but it's possible.
johnny_knoxvile wrote: » ...to cock-block Bertie. (i have no idea what i mean by that)
Hazys wrote: » Im not too sure if this is what u said because u used a lot of big words and me no like big words but isen't white skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes slowely going extinct. I heard somewhere that in 50 years the only place we'll find a person naturally born with blonde hair is in Scandinvia? are doing a full circle?
jetski wrote: » Curious question, whats the general aim / common goal of the human race, are we just here to reproduce and sail along or are we heading somewhere....
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
BraziliaNZ wrote: » I really don't know why people like Miriam O'Callaghan
genericguy wrote: » because she's a fookin' ride. that is why.
Meet the scientific prophets who claim we are on the verge of creating a new type of human - a human v2.0. It's predicted that by 2029 computer intelligence will equal the power of the human brain. Some believe this will revolutionise humanity - we will be able to download our minds to computers extending our lives indefinitely. Others fear this will lead to oblivion by giving rise to destructive ultra intelligent machines. One thing they all agree on is that the coming of this moment - and whatever it brings - is inevitable.
MayoForSam wrote: » How do you fancy downloading your mind (shouldn't that be uploading)?http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/singularity/ No more humanity, just a few T1000's knocking about. No more bodily functions to worry about anyway.
fintonie wrote: » space, they reckon in the next couple hundred years it will be possible to move the earth in any direction we want this will become our space ship, dropping off the undesirables on the moon and other places on the way, thats what they reckon.
MayoForSam wrote: » No more humanity