Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:501445 sci.physics:710119 sci.physics.relativity:475771 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-vm.kithrup.com!kithrup.com!djheydt From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) Subject: Re: DNA test results Message-ID: Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:29:21 GMT References: <5BD3E262.11E9@ix.netcom.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Lines: 89 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. > > Son-of-a-sea-cook. By pushing upward and turning with its head! -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/