Comments on: Evolution Update: Only 993 Years Left To Choose Teams! http://www.cracked.com/blog/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/ The CRACKED.com take on the world, in America's oldest weblog, since 1958. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:30:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Baka To The Future http://www.cracked.com/blog/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-47539 Baka To The Future Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:03:56 +0000 http://www.cracked.com/blog/2007/10/29/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-47539 Senor Taco Says: "I wasn’t aware that beautiful people carry smart genes. Even if this crap is true, wouldn’t it be more likely that the ugly, yet brilliant, goblin people would rule over their beautiful brain-dead slaves?" H.G. Wells wrote a novella about just that, actually. The Time Machine. One of the classics. Senor Taco Says:
“I wasn’t aware that beautiful people carry smart genes. Even if this crap is true, wouldn’t it be more likely that the ugly, yet brilliant, goblin people would rule over their beautiful brain-dead slaves?”

H.G. Wells wrote a novella about just that, actually. The Time Machine. One of the classics.

]]> By: Nik http://www.cracked.com/blog/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-2090 Nik Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:12:10 +0000 http://www.cracked.com/blog/2007/10/29/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-2090 <i>Fact: The London School of Economics is for ALL of the social sciences. Ranked 3rd in the world behind Oxford and Harvard.</i> That still doesn't include biology. The racial differences thing makes sense. We're already beginning to see races mixing. In a few centuries, interbreeding probably will eliminate racial differences. It probably won't mean that everyone will have teh same skin tone, though, just that there won't be distinct groups. There'll be a range of skin tones, though the extreme ends of both very pale and very dark will probably be absent. Still, any projection of human evolution runs into the problem of technology. Unless civilization collapses, some degree of genetic engineering almost certainly WILL come into use, and so natural evolutionary processes will be blocked. (And actually, genetic engineering has a better possibility of creating such a divide, if it's monopolized by the upper class, who'll continuously "upgrade" their children generation after generation, while the poorer classes will be left "obsolete") Fact: The London School of Economics is for ALL of the social sciences. Ranked 3rd in the world behind Oxford and Harvard. That still doesn’t include biology.

The racial differences thing makes sense. We’re already beginning to see races mixing. In a few centuries, interbreeding probably will eliminate racial differences. It probably won’t mean that everyone will have teh same skin tone, though, just that there won’t be distinct groups. There’ll be a range of skin tones, though the extreme ends of both very pale and very dark will probably be absent.

Still, any projection of human evolution runs into the problem of technology. Unless civilization collapses, some degree of genetic engineering almost certainly WILL come into use, and so natural evolutionary processes will be blocked.

(And actually, genetic engineering has a better possibility of creating such a divide, if it’s monopolized by the upper class, who’ll continuously “upgrade” their children generation after generation, while the poorer classes will be left “obsolete”)

]]> By: Jeb http://www.cracked.com/blog/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-792 Jeb Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:56:04 +0000 http://www.cracked.com/blog/2007/10/29/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-792 I think I saw this movie...it was called Idiocracy. I think I saw this movie…it was called Idiocracy.

]]> By: Gladstone http://www.cracked.com/blog/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-564 Gladstone Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:49:11 +0000 http://www.cracked.com/blog/2007/10/29/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-564 Sparklebunny, that's the kind of convenient fact that i deliberately overlook for the sake of humor. I was also banking on cracked readers having never gone to University and/or to be so high they didn't notice my fictitious conceit. I have underestimated you all and shamed myself. The theory is still goofy batshit though. Sparklebunny, that’s the kind of convenient fact that i deliberately overlook for the sake of humor. I was also banking on cracked readers having never gone to University and/or to be so high they didn’t notice my fictitious conceit.

I have underestimated you all and shamed myself. The theory is still goofy batshit though.

]]> By: sparklebunny http://www.cracked.com/blog/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-559 sparklebunny Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:52:12 +0000 http://www.cracked.com/blog/2007/10/29/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-559 Fact: The London School of Economics is for ALL of the social sciences. Ranked 3rd in the world behind Oxford and Harvard. (...and obviously i'm an alum since i got all huffy and puffy and took the time to post this) Fact: The London School of Economics is for ALL of the social sciences. Ranked 3rd in the world behind Oxford and Harvard.

(…and obviously i’m an alum since i got all huffy and puffy and took the time to post this)

]]> By: Senor Taco http://www.cracked.com/blog/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-532 Senor Taco Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:37:26 +0000 http://www.cracked.com/blog/2007/10/29/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-532 I wasn't aware that beautiful people carry smart genes. Even if this crap is true, wouldn't it be more likely that the ugly, yet brilliant, goblin people would rule over their beautiful brain-dead slaves? I wasn’t aware that beautiful people carry smart genes. Even if this crap is true, wouldn’t it be more likely that the ugly, yet brilliant, goblin people would rule over their beautiful brain-dead slaves?

]]> By: Albatronix http://www.cracked.com/blog/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-524 Albatronix Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:25:08 +0000 http://www.cracked.com/blog/2007/10/29/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-524 Sounds to me like Mr. Curry is watching WAAAAAY too much Anime. Sounds to me like Mr. Curry is watching WAAAAAY too much Anime.

]]> By: El Santo http://www.cracked.com/blog/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-514 El Santo Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:27:27 +0000 http://www.cracked.com/blog/2007/10/29/evolution-update-only-993-years-to-get-on-the-right-team/#comment-514 From the article: "Men will have symmetrical facial features, deeper voices and bigger penises, according to Curry in a report commissioned for men's satellite TV channel Bravo. Women will all have glossy hair, smooth hairless skin, large eyes and pert breasts, according to Curry. Racial differences will be a thing of the past as interbreeding produces a single coffee-coloured skin tone." OK... so the guy is from the School of Economics. How does this explain the above? Symmetrical facial features? Women with glossy hair? I mean... I have a business degree, and I'm pretty sure there's no economic theory to explain these conclusions. The Racial differences one was laughable, too, since there are people in existence in the world today with a variety of racial backgrounds, and I'm almost certain that they're not some sort of single coffee-colored tone. (Not to mention... how can a people of a single race produce women who have "large eyes"?) From the article:

“Men will have symmetrical facial features, deeper voices and bigger penises, according to Curry in a report commissioned for men’s satellite TV channel Bravo.

Women will all have glossy hair, smooth hairless skin, large eyes and pert breasts, according to Curry.

Racial differences will be a thing of the past as interbreeding produces a single coffee-coloured skin tone.”

OK… so the guy is from the School of Economics. How does this explain the above? Symmetrical facial features? Women with glossy hair? I mean… I have a business degree, and I’m pretty sure there’s no economic theory to explain these conclusions. The Racial differences one was laughable, too, since there are people in existence in the world today with a variety of racial backgrounds, and I’m almost certain that they’re not some sort of single coffee-colored tone. (Not to mention… how can a people of a single race produce women who have “large eyes”?)

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