At 03:35 PM 2/21/2007, longtom2222 wrote:
>--- In
><mailto:SkunkworksAMA%40yahoogroups.com>SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com,
>"Andrew Greene" <blaze_at_...>
>wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to see you make the argument of superiority of the sharks,
>while
> > you and a shark try to open identical milk cartons.
> >
>
>Even better-let any animal other than a human try to reach outer space
>on its own! :)
Let's see any human try to dive several thousand feet on one breath,
unassisted. Ooops, whales and dolphins can do that, but humans can't?
Let's see any human build a complex environmental control system that
maintains almost precisely even temperatures within specific areas and a
constant airflow throughout an entire building using no moving
parts. Dang, we haven't managed that. But termites have.
Here's a cactus needle for a tool. Get that bug out of that hole in the
tree trunk before the bird does. Bird wins.
Jim has it accurate. We screwed up physically for the most part, so we
adapted with our brains and had to make stuff to overcome our
shortfalls. All of our "superiority" is pretty much "We suck, but we don't
want to, so we need to try to fix it." :)
Received on Wed Feb 21 2007 - 14:57:09 CST