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From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject: Re: DNA test results
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 14:48:39 GMT
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In article <pr3i4m$obr$1@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 10/27/2018 8:39 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote in
>> news:pr2qml$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 <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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/