Nukes

Yimboli · #1 October 24th, 2006, 08:01 PM

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AngleWyrm said:
Mosquitos do improve life, in a bizarre and counter-intuitive manner. They are nature's flu shot, spreading a small amount of disease to everyone, so that we have a chance to develop immunities.

Someone once told me that kids who are raised in overly-hygenic environments are more likely to develop asthma, allergies and other weaknesses of the immune system.

BINGO

you can wiki that too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy...ene_Hypothesis

Imagine a world where organisms adapt to threats through natural selection. Oh wait that's reality.

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening organisms. Remove the communicated diseases and our immune systems go to sh*t.

Phoenix-D · #2 October 24th, 2006, 08:34 PM

Natural selection only works on the population level; it does NOT apply to individual organisms, not in the way you're thinking.

Dizzy · #3 October 24th, 2006, 08:48 PM

Bingo my ***. One to Three million deaths is not natures struggle Yimboli. It's needless death.

Humans have gone beyond adapting through natural selection by use of technology. We have vaccines now. Natural selection has nothing to do with it. If we had a vaccine for malaria it'd be used, but we dont yet. Besides, there is little adapting to malaria unless you are adapting through a real estate agent that knows a good place away from ponds and the coast.

So your argument is crap.

NullAshton · #4 October 24th, 2006, 10:17 PM

Our way of adapting is different from most creatures. Most creatures create new defenses to protect against diseases and predators. We? We build things to blow predators up, and create vaccines to make us immune.

Just that our method tends to not require as much breeding. Thus letting us expand, increase the gene pool, and generally prosper by letting our old and weak people who would otherwise die out, protect us.

Us avoiding deadly diseases, parasites, and generally creating a cleaner world for ourselves is what keeps society healthy as a whole for us.

Shadowstar · #5 October 24th, 2006, 11:02 PM

Most technology is not devoted to blowing up predators, but rather other humans. But then again, humans ARE predators after all... But technology as an alternative to natural selection seems a bit of a stretch. Natural selection is a neccessary method of ensuring the survival of the species. Only the earliest forms of technology were developed for such purposes. Humans have long since surpassed the point where the survival of our species was threatened.

So if you consider technology to be the human alternative to evolution, then we truly are something unique. We do not evolve to survive, we evolve to dominate our universe.

Wenin · #6 October 25th, 2006, 02:05 PM

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Our way of adapting is different from most creatures.

Obviously it wasn't always like that.

Sickle Cell Anemia

NullAshton · #7 October 25th, 2006, 05:01 PM

Level 100 antiproton beams wouldn't just glass the planet, they would probally ignite the atmosphere and send a chain reaction through it destroying it all...

AgentZero · #8 October 25th, 2006, 10:29 PM

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NullAshton said:
Level 100 antiproton beams wouldn't just glass the planet, they would probally ignite the atmosphere and send a chain reaction through it destroying it all...

That would be bad.

Fyron · #9 October 25th, 2006, 04:58 AM

Please tone it down a little, Dizzy.

Dizzy · #10 October 25th, 2006, 07:56 AM

Alright, Fryon. I'm just a little passionate about it and am intending to raise the heat up a bit, but no one please mistake that for me insulting or attacking anyone cuz I'm not. Everyone has a valuable opinion.

And now back to nuking the planet...