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Advances in artificially made organisms

Started by Sir Bearington, July 24, 2012, 07:55:55 PM

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Nephew Twiddleton

Except that we can kill that dog by exhausting it alone.
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Freeky

Quote from: Sir Bearington on July 25, 2012, 09:19:11 PM
Quote from: The Freeky of SCIENCE! on July 25, 2012, 09:14:41 PM
I mean, seriously, you can't just give a species of animal intelligence.  You can't just give them fine motor skills, an inventive frame of mind that is species inherent, or a language center of the brain.  These are things that are extremely rare in the animal kingdom.  We killed off the other species that may have had it. 

So how are humans not special?

Outside our minds we are weak

I think you are vastly underestimating the power of brains over brawn. 

These are the things you can do with thinking:
Ennumerate stuff, like how your food is stronger and faster than you are.
Figure out how to get around that.
Make a trap to trap your stronger, faster food.

Here's what you can do with strength:
Break things

Freeky

Quote from: Sir Bearington on July 25, 2012, 09:19:11 PM
And to help defeat you "you can't just do that" attitude lets just assume i have god like powers and i can give them that kind of intellect.

So this is a pointless discussion.  Okay.

Nephew Twiddleton

Youre also underestimating brute human strength. We have strong upper bodies because were adapted to climb trees. Also since our mutations are unique that makes them special by definition.
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Quote from: Bruce Twiddleton on July 25, 2012, 09:30:12 PM
Youre also underestimating brute human strength. We have strong upper bodies because were adapted to climb trees. Also since our mutations are unique that makes them special by definition.

Also most people today are magnitudes weaker than we would have been back then because of our sedentary lifestyle vs. their get-food-or-starve existence.

But this is all about how people aren't so great, eet eez all so bohring wankery, Twid, not about reality.

Nephew Twiddleton

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Nephew Twiddleton

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Sir Bearington

Quote from: Bruce Twiddleton on July 25, 2012, 09:30:12 PM
Youre also underestimating brute human strength. We have strong upper bodies because were adapted to climb trees. Also since our mutations are unique that makes them special by definition.

Still not enough to fight a fully grown tiger though is it?

Nephew Twiddleton

:sigh: this conversation and the thoughts it got going made me an atheist again. But thats ok im usually an atheist on wednesdays anyway.
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Quote from: Sir Bearington on July 25, 2012, 09:57:21 PM
Quote from: Bruce Twiddleton on July 25, 2012, 09:30:12 PM
Youre also underestimating brute human strength. We have strong upper bodies because were adapted to climb trees. Also since our mutations are unique that makes them special by definition.

Still not enough to fight a fully grown tiger though is it?

Yeah, we're totally not more formidable than tigers!  If we hadn't killed so many of them that there's probably less than three thousand in the wild left, we'd be in big trouble!@@@!!!


Sir Bearington

Quote from: Bruce Twiddleton on July 25, 2012, 09:58:30 PM
:sigh: this conversation and the thoughts it got going made me an atheist again. But thats ok im usually an atheist on wednesdays anyway.

My job here is done.

Nephew Twiddleton

The tiger is not guaranteed to win the fight even if the human is unarmed. He just has to make winning the fight not worth it for the tiger.
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Sir Bearington

Quote from: Bruce Twiddleton on July 25, 2012, 10:00:33 PM
The tiger is not guaranteed to win the fight even if the human is unarmed. He just has to make winning the fight not worth it for the tiger.

Hungry angry tiger in a enclosed space then.

Nephew Twiddleton

The human probably got the tiger in that situation in the first place. Ever see swiss family robinson?
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