Vykkers Feet -

kleeng · #31 04-28-2002, 10:38 AM

Becous of genetic diversity. If you outo reproduce yourself you basicly make copys of your self. If you mix your genes with an other you make a new unique individual.

This is better for a species as a whole since this is the stuf that makes evolution happen. One critter with good genes comes to gether with an other creature with good genes making a baby with even better genes (if everything go's richt that is). And the even better one go's along and spreas its genes and makes even better babys. And so on and so forth.

CitizenKane · #32 04-28-2002, 05:22 PM

So the more times different people reproduce the better? I suppose the human race is an exception.

***Xavier*** · #33 04-28-2002, 05:25 PM

yes...
but why mucher better?
the invers should be more logic
cause when they are old, animal don't can defent the joung ones anymor

pinkgoth2 · #34 04-28-2002, 05:39 PM

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Originally posted by CitizenKane
So the more times different people reproduce the better? I suppose the human race is an exception.

The human race is an exception because there is no more selection. Chance of survival in the human "society" is 99,9% or something like that (much higher than any other species, anyway).

Why is there no more selection? Because of something called 'morale'...

- TyA / Neike

SeaRex · #35 04-28-2002, 07:38 PM

Considering all of the... erm... yummy products the Gluks come up with, I wouldn't be suprised if there is such a thing as pickled Vykker feet... delicious.

CitizenKane · #36 04-29-2002, 12:32 AM

What I meant is that as the human race has "advanced," it has commited more horrors, destroyed more things, and killed more people then its primitive derivitive could of ever dreamed of. It's a metaphysical thing, AKA, garbage.

Vykker Sean · #37 04-29-2002, 02:19 AM

Back to the vykkers feet. the leg on the back could have been a tale but cut them off becouse when they walk around they hit things and blow up experiments. and when they were in the wild they used it to balance and maybe swing it around a tree branch and pull themselves up...

Teal · #38 04-29-2002, 08:05 AM

Is it not conceivable that vykkers amputated their feet simply because they were impossible to walk on? Consider a chimp's foot - it is rather considerably curved, and walking looks very difficult for them...

Mac the Janitor · #39 04-29-2002, 12:19 PM

Yeah, or maybe they kept tripping all over their humongous feet, and they couldn't work like that, so they just chopped them off.

***Xavier*** · #40 04-29-2002, 01:25 PM

maybe the amputade them cause it provocs a bad brain developement.
like some primats

pinkgoth2 · #41 04-29-2002, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by CitizenKane
What I meant is that as the human race has "advanced," it has commited more horrors, destroyed more things, and killed more people then its primitive derivitive could of ever dreamed of. It's a metaphysical thing, AKA, garbage.

If you can call a society where trends come and go without a true philosophical point, where people are becoming more and more downright too lazy to even think "advanced"... I wouldn't say so. We're still far above the animals, because we have the power of imagination, but that donn make us all perfect. Face it, most people these days are dumb, and most of those people choose to be. At least it's the case here in germany - geez, some people go so far that they actively CHOOSE not to work, just because the state will support their worthless hinney's despite that lazy attitude... ahem... (please note I am speaking about those that really are too lazy too work, not those who really can't help it.)

What did Manson say? "Take an IQ test before you decide to breed.", or something along those lines.

Yes, I'm this pro-selection type of person. Irony: I would have been picked off long ago, I suppose. Physically too weak.

- Neike

CitizenKane · #42 04-29-2002, 11:06 PM

IQ. What nonsense.

Joe the Intern · #43 04-30-2002, 12:09 AM

It doesn't look to me like the Vykkers cut off only their feet. The scars go up the leg, so it looks like they did something to the leg also.

pinkgoth2 · #44 04-30-2002, 03:25 PM

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Originally posted by CitizenKane
IQ. What nonsense.

En contraire, IQ isn't nonsense. What most people make of it, however, is. A lot of people seem to assume that if you have a high IQ, you know more. That is bullshit. IQ measures the balance of your intelligence and your emotions, and the amout of that, in approximation. That in turn is how well you learn things [yea, I argumented backwards in account to what IQ means, but it comes down to the intelligence/emotion balance eventually].

It's a misused and abused (and seen as too absolute a) term (by most), like so many. But not nonsense.

And you shouldn't take Manson as literally as to think with IQ test he means these incompetent sheets of paper asking you to apply your knowledge unto. I assume what he means has yet to be invented ;) (like a 'think more' spray, something one of my internet friends would love to invent)

Oh, and it's very easy to post something like "term. What nonsense", without explaining why. So do enlighten me, won't ya?

- TyA

CitizenKane · #45 05-02-2002, 10:21 PM

Wrong. It measures how well you can answer another man's questions, a man who you've never met and know nothing of. It's completely insane. What is some person you know not a thing about to tell you anything? Utterly mad. Like all things.

kleeng · #46 05-03-2002, 03:56 PM

Nice to see your having an opinion CitizenKane
But I think you missing the point!!

And you shouldn't take Manson as literally as to think with IQ test he means these incompetent sheets of paper

(yes I know it's spam sorry)

CitizenKane · #47 05-04-2002, 07:52 PM

The point is that IQ tries to measure intelligence with a pre-set series of questions. Malarky. If there were six billion questions on that test, chances are it would on give a ridiculously sketchy and useless approximation of your intelligence.

If you ask me, it's the stupid people who are the smart ones, they just get to skid by in life giggling stupidly, leaving us to make chemicals and do philosophy.

pinkgoth2 · #48 05-05-2002, 10:24 AM

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Originally posted by CitizenKane
The point is that IQ tries to measure intelligence with a pre-set series of questions. Malarky. If there were six billion questions on that test, chances are it would on give a ridiculously sketchy and useless approximation of your intelligence.

Er, no. You're talking about IQ-tests, which have little to do with IQ in itself. IQ does not measure according to the questions in IQ-tests, the IQ-test measures it and claims it knows you IQ. See the difference? I don't like IQ tests either, they're incompetent, but the idea of IQ is very good, we just have to find a way to figure it out without using those annoying sheets!

Heck, according to www.iqtest.com my IQ is 160. All I can say is: Yea right, rubbish.

- TyA

pinkgoth2 · #49 05-05-2002, 10:28 AM

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Originally posted by CitizenKane
If you ask me, it's the stupid people who are the smart ones, they just get to skid by in life giggling stupidly, leaving us to make chemicals and do philosophy.

Remind me to commence giggling stupidly tomorrow in school. v_v

Besides, I like philosophy. It's a hobby of mine, so I'd hardly see it as a burden. No one's forcing you to think about the meaning of life and ethics. *grin*

- TyA