Which Human Species Will You Be?

[Praxeas]

The human race may split in the next 100,000 years, according to a British scientist.

Oliver Curry, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, thinks two subspecies will emerge: a tall, slim, intelligent privileged class, and a short, squat, ugly, dim-witted race of servants.


If that sounds remarkably like what H.G. Wells foresaw in "The Time Machine" with his Eloi and Morlocks, that's because the division of species into slender "gracile" and husky "robust" forms occurs repeatedly in the evolutionary history of higher primates.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305505,00.html



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[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

The human race may split in the next 100,000 years, according to a British scientist.

Oliver Curry, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, thinks two subspecies will emerge: a tall, slim, intelligent privileged class, and a short, squat, ugly, dim-witted race of servants.

If that sounds remarkably like what H.G. Wells foresaw in "The Time Machine" with his Eloi and Morlocks, that's because the division of species into slender "gracile" and husky "robust" forms occurs repeatedly in the evolutionary history of higher primates.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305505,00.html



I can't quote the rest or parts of the rest as it contains "sexual" langauge

Well, how else are they supposed to reproduce and evolve? You really are a cave-man.

I have already expressed my desires to the secret cabal that runs the world and controls these things. I want to be neither of these two species.

We're still in negotiations, but it looks as though the "sympathetic and 'green', fuel efficient hybrid cyborg tree hugger drone" will become available in the next model year.

I had asked to be a simple "cyborg killing machine" but those "powers that be" insisted on all of the other politically correct stuff. I guess you just take what you can get.

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Well, how else are they supposed to reproduce and evolve? You really are a cave-man.

I have already expressed my desires to the secret cabal that runs the world and controls these things. I want to be neither of these two species.

We're still in negotiations, but it looks as though the "sympathetic and 'green', fuel efficient hybrid cyborg tree hugger drone" will become available in the next model year.

I had asked to be a simple "cyborg killing machine" but those "powers that be" insisted on all of the other politically correct stuff. I guess you just take what you can get.

So you WANT to be part of the borg?

DANGER WILL RODGERS!

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

So you WANT to be part of the borg?

DANGER WILL RODGERS!

No! cyborg. An autonomous independent cybernetic/biological organism.

Keep your happy Trekkian analogies away from my dreary William Gibsonesque nightmare of a dreamscape.

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by pelathais

No! cyborg. An autonomous independent cybernetic/biological organism.

Keep your happy Trekkian analogies away from my dreary William Gibsonesque nightmare of a dreamscape.

You win.

I can't even compete.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

You win.

I can't even compete.

No, you're fine there bro. I remember your post a while back about that borg or hive mentality and how destructive it can be. You were (and are) right on target.

I see parallels with certain cultures and the borg mentality as well... and also find that certain cultures stifle individuality and creativity except for within very specific areas.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Sheltiedad

I see parallels with certain cultures and the borg mentality as well... and also find that certain cultures stifle individuality and creativity except for within very specific areas.

Are you still in that same "hive" as last night?

Yes, but I haven't explored much. I am on a marathon trip to 3 countries in 2 weeks and am still recovering from the last country so I haven't been very adventurous here.

[pelathais]

Well, get yourself out? Going to the mainland? I have family there right now.