Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:46:31 -0500 Message-ID: <5BD62023.62F8@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:46:27 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: DNA test results References: <5BD3E262.11E9@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 181028-2, 10/28/2018), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 91 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-M5OtwZ5XsvmUPPlfLh0lmKpy0CX/LIoKFgymK58avUBiwpbl5Gz1u9cgs5EiJUHvehvQ57hvxSqR0CE!4BxEUl7MKoHj7tBVCGhrCCYVkCep4Nsy/xV7D0gvv7160AgdDTKkXcuhADKgJ10QMXmHSx+pOVGu!ykRCHpEr2T4= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4708 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:501446 sci.physics:710120 sci.physics.relativity:475772 Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > > In article , > J. Clarke wrote: > >On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 09:35:24 -0700, Dimensional Traveler > > wrote: > > > >>On 10/28/2018 7:48 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > >>> In article , > >>> Dimensional Traveler wrote: > >>>> On 10/27/2018 8:39 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote: > >>>>> Dimensional Traveler wrote in > >>>>> news:pr2qml$tdd$1@dont-email.me: > >>>>> > >>>>>> On 10/27/2018 3:35 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote: > >>>>>>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in > >>>>>>> news:pH9zK6.209p@kithrup.com: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> In article , > >>>>>>>> Ninapenda Jibini wrote: > >>>>>>>>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in > >>>>>>>>> news:pH9sBC.1sH1@kithrup.com: > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> In article , > >>>>>>>>>> Ninapenda Jibini wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>> benj 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. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Or a chatbot. A very broken chatbot written by a very stupid > >>>>>>> person. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> I think you just insulted broken stupid chatbots. > >>>>>> > >>>>> And the stupid people that write them. > >>>>> > >>>>> But Dorothy insulted squids first. > >>>>> > >>>> Octopi. They are smarter than squids. From some of the stories I've > >>>> heard they're smarter than a fair number of humans. > >>> > >>> There was a video on the web once, unfortunately I don't have the > >>> link, showing an octopus in an aquarium unscrewing a jar in order > >>> to get the food inside. With running comment by a human, > >>> speaking Finnish. > >>> > >>In the version I've heard the scary part is that after eating the > >>octopus puts the remains back in the jar and closes it. They apparently > >>also have a habit of escaping from their tanks and going walk about. > > > >Here's one opening a jar from the inside. But, alot of...human beings have trouble opening a jar from the ...outside. they don't have suction cups on their fingers.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2eT9iLQyoU