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gogo pedomorphing!
That sounds dirty.
We also need to get started on domesticating giant salamanders.
more Peep show for me
Sounds like what Nexus does on weekends.
like i am fairly certain we didn't go "oh this wolf bites less, let us raise it and its nicer offspring"
it just happened that the nicer ones were more likely to associate with us without getting killed in defense and then we got to where we are now. we didn't do this like the russian fox experiment.
but then again you could argue that even though no one may have thought "oh lets keep the nice ones" it was definitely there
however something like making breeds? definitely directed and conscious.
i am running up to the limit of what i feel comfortable saying without having the evidence i need to back it up though because i can't find the papers i want because my hospital doesn't have access to archaeology journals
God damn it another lizard person?
pleasepaypreacher.net
musicians
A friend just sent me a link to that tumblr: http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/
So rad.
I just realized they were spinning in the opposite direction the whole time
in fact i am getting a headache because every time i glance at it they are going in a different direction
Ugh, I need to go lie down.
it's like brave new world
Which is why cats are better.
most domesticated animals are pedomorphed
humans as well to some extent
there is some evidence that our longer developmental period (the time it takes to reach sexual maturity and adulthood) is one of the reasons we are so intelligent
we learn for a much longer time than most other animals, and some people almost indefinitely
technically man-children have the potential to be the most intelligent people ever
I friend of mine wrote a science fiction story that involved, as a minor bit of flavour, commercially sold puppies genetically engineered to die after they grow to a certain age at which they are no longer considered sufficiently cute.
It indeed is rad. I put the link in the image so it could be an easter egg. With only the curious mouse-overers getting it.
fuuuuck that.
Watch this Arch.
Top Soil is composed mainly of skin cells, banana peels, and bug guts.
-Dr. Ludious Von Ludious
FACE.
peace out
man you know you can do that without lethal mutants
it ain't hard, in fact we are isolating the genes responsible for canine pedomorphism right now
pretty soon we can just keep them continually upregulated by knocking out specific silencing regulators and the puppy will be a puppy
forever
Depends, did you think that 2001 was too fast paced and needed to slow down?
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The American version no. The Russian version supposedly, but I haven't seen it. The Stanislaw Lem story is worth reading in any case.
there's a reason labs are smart yet so very dumb at the same time
Yes, but where's the business opportunity in that? Planned obsolescence.
I'm sure I've advocated for that in here.
I gotcha. Teach a man to mouseover, you've fed him for a lifetime kinda thing.
You're always educatin', Elki.
Yep.
psh i dont have a head for business