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butane
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I have a prediction!! Check this out
#5601695 - 05/07/06 04:48 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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As I was looking at this Morning Glory flower that I am growing, I noticed how it seemed to be trying to conquer the world with its four new offshoot vines, and my thought process took a sudden turn. I realized that its purpose is exactly the same as ours: to reproduce as quickly and effectively as possible. I thought about how a plant had evolved over thousands of years to conquer a specific area of land, extract the perfect blend of nutrients and water and air and sunlight and use insanely complex chemical reactions to allow them to grow bigger and faster and stronger and make more of itself. Then I thought about how we as humans were manipulating this plant to our own desires, as if fooling the plant into doing what we want it to do. But then I realized: even when we grow them artificially, they still reproduce. More of them are created anyway! It works for them. I then realized: by looking beautiful and/or providing valuable alkaloids, the plants had evolved to utilized what is to it just another part of its environment, right along with rocks and trees: US. Then I thought about how we as humans seemed to have this impression that we were above evolution. But I realized that we were totally evolving too! We had evolved, just as a beaver had evolved to use trees to stop water, to use trees, metals, and chemical reactions creatively to help us make more of ourselves and reproduce more!!! Technology is just part of our evolution. I realized that just as a beaver is inseparable from the dam, we are evolving to be more and more inseparable from technology. So, from then we can conclude that it would be in our evolutionary favor to evolve brains better suited to interface with our technology. Actually, in a way, they have. Have you ever gotten to the point in a video game where you don't even realize that you're pushing the buttons on the controller? You just interface directly by stimulating certain nerve endings whose results begin to be measured not by the sensory nerves but by the optical nerves. The brain learns to stop paying attention to the tactile input and just interface directly with the eye. I type without ever thinking about the keys. When someone asks me where a key is, I can tell you what finger to move where to hit it, but I actually have to peck and hunt for it to actually find it with my eyes.
Anyway, the main point of this.
I predict that at some point in the next 150 years, scientists will discover irreputable proof that the human brain has evolved drastically over the last 500 years and now is clearly distinguishable from past brains. Also, I predict that the human lung, along with other animals as well, will evolve to deal with pollution.
Animals have been evolving to deal with different atmospheric conditions for millions of years; they can do it again.
Thus are the revealings of my brain....
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Banez
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Re: I have a prediction!! Check this out [Re: butane]
#5601700 - 05/07/06 04:49 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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sorry i dont feel like reading a paragraph.. but i did notice the word morning glory.. and i was wondering.. does a mature morning glory plant have any hullucinogenic use? i know the seeds do.. just curious
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butane
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Re: I have a prediction!! Check this out [Re: Banez]
#5601724 - 05/07/06 04:57 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Everyone always says that they don't, but according to HGTV (yeah, Home and Garden Television) they do.
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Liz
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Re: I have a prediction!! Check this out [Re: Banez]
#5601726 - 05/07/06 04:57 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Aw, that's not right...not even reading the kid's insightful post, and then asking a question that has nothing to do with what he said?
OHS you know better than that 
To the original posted - thanks for the post, I enjoyed reading that! Well written and intelligent
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Banez
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Re: I have a prediction!! Check this out [Re: Liz]
#5601742 - 05/07/06 05:01 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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yeah sorry liz.. ur right.. but i saw it and was like.. fuuuuck.. im sure it was good, didnt mean to take anything away from him
but i was curious
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Hawkeye3
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Re: I have a prediction!! Check this out [Re: Banez]
#5601932 - 05/07/06 05:49 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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These revelations you had are well-known theories (flower's phenotype more attractive particularly to bees, pollenation=spreading of genes)
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mmarc
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Re: I have a prediction!! Check this out [Re: butane]
#5603340 - 05/07/06 11:45 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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evolutionary changes take a lot longer than the amount of time that pollution has been around. not only does there have to be a random mutation for someone with a genetic base that is slightly more attuned with living in a polluted area, but those people need to survive consistently better and longer than those without it to pass that gene on. and plus, a lot of people would need to be dying directly from pollution.
genetically adapting to pollution just might not happen. the selective force just isn't strong enough. its much more likely that we will invent something to help us deal with pollution at this point.
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Animals
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Re: I have a prediction!! Check this out [Re: butane]
#5603343 - 05/07/06 11:47 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
butane said:
I predict that at some point in the next 150 years, scientists will discover irreputable proof that the human brain has evolved drastically over the last 500 years and now is clearly distinguishable from past brains. Also, I predict that the human lung, along with other animals as well, will evolve to deal with pollution.
Animals have been evolving to deal with different atmospheric conditions for millions of years; they can do it again.
Thus are the revealings of my brain....
there is no time for that, the transcendental object at the end of time is less then 6 years away.
hope you like novelty.
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40oz


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Re: I have a prediction!! Check this out [Re: butane]
#5603399 - 05/08/06 12:06 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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i too enjoyed reading your post 
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jjuussttiinn
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Re: I have a prediction!! Check this out [Re: Animals]
#5603406 - 05/08/06 12:08 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Animals said:
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butane said:
I predict that at some point in the next 150 years, scientists will discover irreputable proof that the human brain has evolved drastically over the last 500 years and now is clearly distinguishable from past brains. Also, I predict that the human lung, along with other animals as well, will evolve to deal with pollution.
Animals have been evolving to deal with different atmospheric conditions for millions of years; they can do it again.
Thus are the revealings of my brain....
there is no time for that, the transcendental object at the end of time is less then 6 years away.
hope you like novelty.
Haha I was thinking the exact same thing when I read that.
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