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"It's all relative"

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Anonymous William said...

And if those aliens showed up in hostile flying saucers to conquer the human race, no doubt Shaq and Shakira and everybody else would team up to fight them off. Ronald Reagan said exactly this to the United Nations back in 1987:

It's too bad Reagan couldn't have given it in blackface, then it might've qualified as "the greatest speech ever." Instead, the press just mocked him.

5/13/08, 10:04 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you are doing complete justice to the so-called "Grey's Antomy Test" I'm not very impressed.

A random feature on a human almost certainly has a corresponding feature on a chimpanze or indeed a pig. That's been established for nearly two centuries. Its called comparative anatomy.

When I consider that someday I may need a pig heart valve, the existance of this correspondence comforts me.

5/13/08, 11:26 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve:

Re: inherited traits in general, something I've always wondered about is the prevalence of myopia (nearsightedness) in humans. I think easily 50% of US whites of Anglo and European descent are myopic and the numbers may be the same (or smaller but growing) among other groups as well.

This has always fascinated me, because I don't see how such a defect could have survived the hunter-gatherer period in human evolution. Any thoughts on this? Anyone?

Doug.

5/13/08, 11:41 AM

Anonymous Tony said...

Re: myopia.

The simple answer is ... it isn't genetic. Perhaps changes in diet and or occupational changes. Naturally, it's probably much less frequent.

Among some people, it's reversible. I have a friend who used to need glasses and no longer does.

5/13/08, 12:58 PM

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5/13/08, 1:52 PM

Anonymous Svigor said...

Any thoughts on this? Anyone?

Coming right from my butt: I'm myopic, and I haven't worn glasses or contacts for years. I detect motion (e.g., especially in peripheral vision) much better than almost everyone I know. I only suspect this has to do with myopia. It could be my brain wiring (or both) for all I know. But, I do know I'm NOT one of those people high on the "situational awareness" meter. I trend the other way, toward over-focus.

5/13/08, 2:32 PM

Anonymous Svigor said...

Instead, the press just mocked him.

The point being to keep people from thinking about the upshot of the truth of Reagan's statement (i.e., there is no sense to the "humanity" meme); in this case it sounds like an easy and superior alternative to silence.

5/13/08, 2:40 PM

Anonymous anony-mouse said...

Are you sure we're not fighting space aliens? Well that's the difference between Steve Sailer and David Icke.

5/13/08, 4:12 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The simple answer is ... it isn't genetic.

tony et al.,

Myopia comes from the shape of the eyeball. Nearsighted people's orbs are elongated, so the light waves that should be focused at a point on the back of the eyeball focus just off its surface, creating blurry vision at distance. So far as I know, there is no environmental way to elongate the eyeball. Same thing re: astigmatism, which is a misshapen lens. Age-induced farsightedness is different, since the lower hydration of the eyeball with age tends to pull its walls in, moving the focus in near vision to a point that would otherwise be beyond the rear surface of the eyeball.

So I repeat, take a look around a crowd of people one day and see how many wear glasses and add an amount for contacts and Lasik. It's HUGE for a trait that should have fallen off the Lamarckean track very early.

Doug.

5/15/08, 6:15 AM

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