Re: Some random thoughts

>Isn't that "unnatural selection" similar to what happened to
>Germany at the end of WWII?  Instead of selecting the strong to *survive*,
>most of the skilled and experienced soldiers *died*.  This led to weakening
>of their military power, not a stregthening.  (IIRC, this was especially
>noticable in their airforce, with few experienced pilots left to teach
>the next generation.)  The weak who were unable to fight did most of
>the survivng.
>
>-Static

Haven't you heard of the theories of how super strains of the bacteria
streptococcus were created?  All the use of antibiotics killed of the
bacteria that the antibiotics worked on, and all you had left were the
strains that were immune to the antibiotics.  Really bad strains, that made
really bad illnesses because they can't be treated.  It's a known fact, and
the reason so many doctors cut back on the blanket prescribing of
antibiotics a few years ago.

Maybe if humans reproduced at a rate similar to bacteria, or there was a big
enough human populatiuon spread out over a big enough area, WWII would have
created a monster race of humans, even more warlike.  All the wars in Europe
before WWII - WWI, the Napoleonic Wars, the Imperialist wars in Africa and
Asia, etc. did breed some very militarized societies in England, France, and
Germany, all, and also Turkey, to name a few.

We sure came out with some honed areas because of the Cold War.  We never
would have developed rockets and gone to the moon if we had never developed
the same technology to launch nukes.  A warhead sits on the same kind of
missile that is used to deliver satelites.  Wouldn't have had that delivery
mechanism if we weren't fighting the Soviets on the sly in every little
backwater all over the world.

- Coyote, the Desert Dog





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