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To: SunkenCiv

The most major threat to the human race other than I-slam is probably genetic entropy. Asteroids, comets, volcanoes, and earthquakes are leftovers from a recent series of catastrophes and have been damping exponentially since Roman times, i.e. we needn’t fear them anywhere near as much as Romans feared them.


34 posted on 10/26/2010 8:16:23 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946
The most major threat to the human race other than I-slam is probably genetic entropy.

That process is inevitable, making it not a "threat" but a certain destiny.

Inbreeding increases the downward slope to "poodle-ization" of the population. That is, when one confines the genetic pool, one ends up with a worthless dog that is weak, sick and high maintenance at least when compared to a mutt (that with higher genetic diversity).

Curiously, those who like to tinker with human genetics with the aim of creating a master race for some reason like to breed out genetic information so we end up with "poodles". On the other hand, one could argue that the raping and pillaging (mostly the raping) of the population by invading foreign armies actually decreases the slope of genetic entropy making for hardier progeny. This could be one of those extremly rare good "unintended consequences" of UN Peace keeping missions into the third world.

43 posted on 10/26/2010 8:27:14 PM PDT by The Theophilus
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