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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/stephen-hawking-the-planet-has-entered-a-new-phase-of-evolution.html
 Although It has taken homo sapiens
several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information
in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the
rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points out in
his Life in the Universe lecture, is about a bit a year.
"By
contrast," Hawking says, "there are about 50,000 new books published in
the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred
billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this
information is garbage, and no use to any form of life. But, even so,
the rate at which useful information can be added is millions, if not
billions, higher than with DNA."
This means Hawking says that we have entered a new phase of
evolution. "At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from
random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half
billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to
exchange information." But what distinguishes us from our cave man ancestors is the knowledge
that we have accumulated over the last ten thousand years, and
particularly, Hawking points out, over the last three hundred. "I think it is legitimate to
take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as
well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race," Hawking said.
In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what
Hawking calls, "an external transmission phase," where the internal
record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA,
has not changed significantly. "But the external record, in books, and
other long lasting forms of storage," Hawking says, "has grown
enormously. Some people would use the term, evolution, only for the
internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being
applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too
narrow a view. We are more than just our genes." The time scale for evolution, in the external transmission period, has collapsed to about 50 years, or less. 
Meanwhile, Hawking observes, our human brains "with which we process
this information have evolved only on the Darwinian time scale, of
hundreds of thousands of years. This is beginning to cause problems. In
the 18th century, there was said to be a man who had read every book
written. But nowadays, if you read one book a day, it would take you
about 15,000 years to read through the books in a national Library. By
which time, many more books would have been written."
But we are
now entering a new phase, of what Hawking calls "self designed
evolution," in which we will be able to change and improve our DNA. "At
first," he continues "these changes will be confined to the repair of
genetic defects, like cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy. These
are controlled by single genes, and so are fairly easy to identify, and
correct. Other qualities, such as intelligence, are probably controlled
by a large number of genes. It will be much more difficult to find
them, and work out the relations between them. Nevertheless, I am sure
that during the next century, people will discover how to modify both
intelligence, and instincts like aggression." If the human race
manages to redesign itself, to reduce or eliminate the risk of
self-destruction, we will probably reach out to the stars and colonize
other planets. But this will be done, Hawking believes, with
intelligent machines based on mechanical and electronic components,
rather than macromolecules, which could eventually replace DNA based
life, just as DNA may have replaced an earlier form of life. Casey Kazan
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i dont curr that this is public: my AIM is beerboner26, never on neway...
I mean, I made the name when I was 15. My nickname was boner. I liked beer. My fav. number was 26. Hence beerboner26.
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| kasilof: | |
We really have not hit this phase yet. As most babies are still made by young people fffffffing. Aggression and intelligence does not matter. You are either alive or you are not.
We have done DNA modifications to food. Thus, plants might be evolving via this method.
First all men are not important, and what could happen is a group of lesbos could decide to make a super race. As you will still need the women to provide the kitchen of birth. Women would be running experiments with their eggs. Maybe not even their eggs. The humanoid that this egg makes must still be able to thrive and reproduce. Thus, the most likely offspring would grow to be genetic science geniuses. It would be reading, writing, arithmatic, and genetic science.
The ideal mother would be someone like octomom, producing like 15 children experiments a lifetime. The babies would all be girls. These children would have to know warfare or space travel. As the population would grow geometrically maybe a 10 year doubling time. If you stay on earth, soon resources would be used and warfare would result.
i seriously doubt that you are real. even just trying to understand that garbage makes my hurt head.
POTD = post of the day. I mean, kasilof, wat? Made me lol, tho. So cereally, keep posting.
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| Dr.GHouse: | |
| moses rob: | |
LOL. thought u were fixing a roof
Leave in about 17 minutes.
I just got online. Beerboner26. Wanna cyber? PS I'm drunk. So you might catch me in the mood to go beyond my limits. Safety word is banana.
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| AbnormalQ: | |
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| moses rob: | |
LOL. thought u were fixing a roof
Leave in about 17 minutes.
I just got online. Beerboner26. Wanna cyber? PS I'm drunk. So you might catch me in the mood to go beyond my limits. Safety word is banana.
Strange. Different safety word then last time.
And I leave in about 3 minutes. (Exactly 4 pm) I can ship it once I get back from stripping a roof and re-doing...whatever the fck you need to make a roof a roof.
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| AbnormalQ: | |
| Dr.GHouse: | |
| moses rob: | |
LOL. thought u were fixing a roof
Leave in about 17 minutes.
I just got online. Beerboner26. Wanna cyber? PS I'm drunk. So you might catch me in the mood to go beyond my limits. Safety word is banana.
i like the safe word being "harder" seems to wrk out in my favor
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Fuck man, have you never done a roofing gig b4? That is hard god damn work. I enjoy hard physical labor. But roofing? GTFO if you want me help with that ish. Fucking brutal.
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| moses rob: | |
i like the safe word being "harder" seems to wrk out in my favor
Yes, that works. Because it's very easy to misinterpret. And then next thing you know you Cleveland Steamered the chic, pissed all over the rug and had sex with her mother. Things tend to escalate when the safety word is a double entendre.
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| AbnormalQ: | |
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| kasilof: | |
We really have not hit this phase yet. As most babies are still made by young people fffffffing. Aggression and intelligence does not matter. You are either alive or you are not.
We have done DNA modifications to food. Thus, plants might be evolving via this method.
First all men are not important, and what could happen is a group of lesbos could decide to make a super race. As you will still need the women to provide the kitchen of birth. Women would be running experiments with their eggs. Maybe not even their eggs. The humanoid that this egg makes must still be able to thrive and reproduce. Thus, the most likely offspring would grow to be genetic science geniuses. It would be reading, writing, arithmatic, and genetic science.
The ideal mother would be someone like octomom, producing like 15 children experiments a lifetime. The babies would all be girls. These children would have to know warfare or space travel. As the population would grow geometrically maybe a 10 year doubling time. If you stay on earth, soon resources would be used and warfare would result.
i seriously doubt that you are real. even just trying to understand that garbage makes my hurt head.
POTD = post of the day. I mean, kasilof, wat? Made me lol, tho. So cereally, keep posting.
kasilof comes through once again.
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We really have not hit this phase yet. As most babies are still
made by young people fffffffing. Aggression and intelligence does not
matter. You are either alive or you are not.
We have done DNA modifications to food. Thus, plants might be evolving via this method. First
all men are not important, and what could happen is a group of lesbos
could decide to make a super race. As you will still need the women to
provide the kitchen of birth. Women would be running experiments with
their eggs. Maybe not even their eggs. The humanoid that this egg
makes must still be able to thrive and reproduce. Thus, the most
likely offspring would grow to be genetic science geniuses. It would
be reading, writing, arithmatic, and genetic science.
The
ideal mother would be someone like octomom, producing like 15 children
experiments a lifetime. The babies would all be girls. These children
would have to know warfare or space travel. As the population would
grow geometrically maybe a 10 year doubling time. If you stay on
earth, soon resources would be used and warfare would result. Part B. Some of these Lezbos might keep a few men around, mainly to fight wars and do all the real work like farming, manufacturing, and construction. Not much different than today. She might even use some of the men's genetic material as breeding stock in her gene splices. Mainly the best workers that work 12-15 hour days. They might be bred sterile thus they work better. Similar to a worker honey bee. She might even have to jerk a few off to keep them in line.
The female octomom dike, would take some genetic material from here or there. Splicing them into her eggs to make a super dikes and worker men bees.
It is not only a matter of if but when this will happen.
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| kasilof: | |
Part B. Some of these Lezbos might keep a few men around, mainly to fight wars and do all the real work like farming, manufacturing, and construction. Not much different than today. She might even use some of the men's genetic material as breeding stock and her gene splices. Mainly the best workers that work 12-15 hour days. They might be sterile or castrated geldings, thus they work better. Similar to a worker honey bee. She might even have to jerk a few off to keep them in line.
The female octomom dike, would take some genetic material from here or there. Splicing them into her eggs to make a super dikes and worker men bees.
It is not only a matter of if but when this will happen.
It's been said before. You're not real. 44? Doubt it.
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Bfactor, you are so out of your league here, just shut up.
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bfactor
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07-04-2009 10:40 PM
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| Anarchy Lime: | |
Bfactor, you are so out of your league here, just shut up.
Lol, Stephen Hawking is one of my favorite dudes. I like his books. He's one of the greatest geniuses of our time.
I wasn't putting him down in any way.
All I said was, I don't think this specific topic is exactly breaking news. I think he was just agreeing with something a lot of others have already been saying for a long time.
As for you on the other hand...
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They're finding evidence of frozen water on mars...they'll eventually find evidence that there was once intelligent life there. Count on it sluts.
This seems pretty unlikely, and illogical.
Is there intelligent life in our universe? Yes, obviously
Was there intelligent life (not to be confused with single-cell life) on Mars? Possibly, but very unlikely. It's much more likely that if there was life on Mars, it was not intelligent life.
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What or where would be a good start if i wanted to look into this more, just general life and/or SH theories?
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bfactor
(United States)
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Joined
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07-04-2009 10:58 PM
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| Wretchy: | |
What or where would be a good start if i wanted to look into this more, just general life and/or SH theories?
He has some great books that you can read.
A great one to start with, which is more of an intro for n00bs is The Universe In A Nutshell.
After you've read that, I suggest you also read A Brief History of Time.
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