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SexyThoughts -> RE: How did kink evolve in our species? Is it for reproduction only? (5/26/2012 7:53:48 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MalcolmNathaniel
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ORIGINAL: SexyThoughts
Depending on who you talk to human beings are either sculpted by a God 6000 years ago. Or are hundred thousand years of ruthless evolution. Either way we rode to the moon on a spare weapons system that we originally built to achieve nuclear overkill. As a species we really like to be at the top of the food chain, be it over big tigers or tiny germs.
Uggh. The rest of your post was pretty decent, but I'm pedantic:
1) 100,000 years? Lucy is 3.2 million years old and the anthropologists have found even older since her discovery. It's closer to 5 million years and that's still in the genus Homo. Also, evolution isn't ruthless; it simply doesn't care.
After researching evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LucySmithsonian.JPG
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http://images.phun.org/phun/galleries/lucy_pinder_sophie_howard/lucy_pinder_sophie_howard_09.jpg
I'll sort of concede this one
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2) "spare weapons system." This sentence shows so much neglect of reality that it's disgusting. The moon landing was done with all purpose-built equipment, not leftovers from the cold war. The technological discoveries from that bold "Fuck You Universe!" gesture are still evolving our society.
The moon landings used rocket technology based off existing ICBM technology
V2 (Bomb London from a great height) to ATLAS (Nuke Moscow from space)1954 predates Apollo (Man on moon), and even MERCURY (man in space) 1959
Rockets were weapons delivery first and human transports second.
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As for "achieve nuclear overkill" let's bring that right back to natural selection. We just about naturally selected ourselves right out of existence. Or did we? The USA and the USSR were like two cats raising their hackles in a pissing match to determine who would win the fight without actually fighting. That is seen all over the animal kingdom and is a mixed metaphor.
We intentional held extinction like a gun to our heads, to stop the fight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
And right up to they discovered nuclear winter in the 1980's, both sides had plans and strategies to fight a nuclear war and win
Spoiler: Nuke their Capitals, Submarines and HQ's faster than they can unlock their code books, then nuke their nukes locked in their launch positions, then nuke their factories and schools so they can't build new ones for a century.
Because if you look on youtube under "self defense gun to head" as a species, as a species we like to have a bet each way on whether overwhelming force is overwhelming enough.
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3)"we really like to be at the top of the food chain" All lifeforms, at least on this planet, want this. I suppose that it is possible that there is some model where evolution was cooperative, rather than competitive, but that is outside my wheelhouse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism like to be in the middle.
And a lot of plants spread and fertilise their seeds by being eaten, like to be at the bottom of the food chain.
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And a fourth thing: where are all these metaphors I have coming from? It can't be natural selection because they certainly don't attract females.
Nah, females love to sleep with linquists, if only to make us stop talking.
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