Re: DNA test results

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Date	2018-10-27 17:12 -0700
From	The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written, sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity
Subject	Re: DNA test results
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Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> 
> In article <XnsA9887A26A6491taustincagmailcom@69.16.179.43>,
> Ninapenda Jibini  <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
> >djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
> >news:pH9sBC.1sH1@kithrup.com:
> >
> >> In article <XnsA9886C14CEECCtaustincagmailcom@69.16.179.43>,
> >> Ninapenda Jibini  <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> wrote in news:pr0tvm$1gl9$3
> >>>@gioia.aioe.org:
> >>>
> >>>> On 10/26/2018 11:58 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>>>> i can buy a DNA test at Walmart...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but, but...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but what would it find?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> maybe i got some....cousins who are monkies?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> maybe, maybe...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I got some Martian ancestors!
> >>>>>
> >>>> Would find large amounts of Neanderthal DNA, Bozo.
> >>>>
> >>>You're an optomist, aren't you?
> >>
> >> Many, if not most, people of European descent have a *little*
> >> Neanderthal DNA.
> >
> >That was not the insult I was aiming for. I have doubts that
> >Starmaker's DNA is that close to vertebrate, much less mammal.
> 
> Well, s/he's got to have fingers, at least.  And probably, eyes.
> 
> So likeliest, s/he's either a vertebrate or a cephalopod.
> 
> Caution: thread drift ahead ...
> 
> There's an episode of _Doctor Who_ called "The Lazarus
> Experiment."  The eponymous Professor Lazarus, at the age of 76,
> invents a gizmo that reduces his age to thirty or so (I could
> look up the actor's age at the time of filming, but I won't).
> But the technique is unstable, and he keeps morphing into a
> mixture of humanoid and scorpion.
> 
> And the Doctor says, "He's regressing back to an ancestral form."
> 
> But vertebrates are deuterostomes, and arthropods are protostomes
> (look them up at your leisure), and to find a common ancestor you
> would have to regress back to the Urbilaterian (look him up too),
> which no one has found any traces of, though some of the
> Edicarian fauna *might* serve, if we had more specimens.
> 
> So every time I watch it, and it's one of my favorite episodes, I
> keep muttering, "It's not *science* fiction, it's Doctor Who."
> 
> --
> Dorothy J. Heydt
> Vallejo, California
> djheydt at gmail dot com
> www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/


I'm regressing back to my martian form...

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DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-26 20:58 -0700
  Re: DNA test results benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 01:44 -0400
    Re: DNA test results Frank <"frank "@frank.net> - 2018-10-27 09:26 -0400
      Re: DNA test results "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 09:03 -0700
    Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-27 09:24 -0700
    Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-27 09:34 -0700
    Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 17:37 +0000
      Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-27 18:21 +0000
        Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 19:00 +0000
          Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-27 20:57 +0000
            Re: DNA test results benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 17:28 -0400
              Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-28 09:29 +0100
              Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-28 14:45 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-28 16:06 +0100
                Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 22:45 +0000
            Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 22:35 +0000
              Re: DNA test results Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-10-27 16:00 -0700
                Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 03:39 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-10-27 22:40 -0700
                Re: DNA test results J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 09:19 -0400
                Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-28 14:48 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-10-28 09:35 -0700
                Re: DNA test results "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 11:01 -0700
                Re: DNA test results J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 14:38 -0400
                Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-28 20:29 +0000
                Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-28 13:46 -0700
                Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-28 13:53 -0700
                Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-28 20:17 +0000
                Re: DNA test results J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 16:39 -0400
                Re: DNA test results "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 14:52 -0700
                Re: DNA test results Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-10-28 15:30 -0700
                Re: DNA test results "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-10-29 10:23 -0700
                Re: DNA test results Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-10-28 19:37 -0700
                Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-29 04:44 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 22:30 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-28 23:36 +0100
                Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-28 23:46 +0100
                Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-29 00:02 +0100
                Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-29 05:16 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <throbbingsausage@gmail.com> - 2018-10-29 05:15 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-29 20:00 +0100
                Re: DNA test results Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-29 12:52 -0700
                Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-30 22:53 -0700
            Re: DNA test results J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 19:13 -0400
            Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-27 17:12 -0700
        Re: DNA test results benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 17:16 -0400
        Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-27 17:10 -0700
  Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-27 09:13 -0700
  Re: DNA test results "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 11:02 -0700

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