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scarrow
Forum Admin
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 Posted - 23 January 2009 : 1:16:41 PM
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How the hell has Homosapiens managed to survive so long? That's the question I find myself asking this week.
Case in point, this week, I started out monday morning with something of a stiff knee. Went to see the GP about it. Tuesday, I'm in hospital with a bunch of consultants looking me over, very worried expressions on their faces, examining my red and inflamed leg. Turns out, one of those VERY NASTY bugs that habitually live harmlessly on our skin (Strapp-a-something or other) managed to permeate the skin on my knee and get into my blood stream. Apparently the skin over the knee is a commonplace for this to occur, as it's tretched pretty thin over the joint, and if you say, kneel, the bug can be sort of pushed through any rough skin/opened pores and through the protective derma barrier, and begin wreaking havoc inside you.
Anyway, that's what happened. Now, if I'd hesitated much longer, as indeed I would normally have done, not really wanting to pester my GP over something as minor as a sore knee, the infection could have really very quickly overwhelmed me. and well...without antibiotics, I'd be a bloody gonner.
Which nicely brings me back to my main point. How the feck has mankind survived the hundred thousand years (or whatever) up until the point Alexander Fleming decided the blue bits in stilton cheese were, like, good for you? I mean...if just KNEELING can end up killing you, how the hell have we managed to survive thus far?
Sheeesh...I dunno. Homo-sapiens, useless bleedin' species.
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Ankhsy
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23 January 2009 : 4:04:58 PM
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Admit it, Al, it was your wife who pestered you into seeing your doctor, wasn't it? If left up to men, the human race would have gone extinct millenia ago.
"To be clear-headed rather than confused; lucid rather than obscure; rational rather than otherwise; and to be neither more, nor less, sure of things than is justifiable by argument or evidence. That is worth trying for."
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Beerswimmer
Invertebrate
USA
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Posted - 26 January 2009 : 08:51:49 AM
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I had a staph infecton that kept me in (the)hospital for 10 days! It's fatal if not treated!
UT ALII VIVANT!!! |
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Beerswimmer
Invertebrate
USA
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Posted - 26 January 2009 : 08:52:27 AM
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It was in my knee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UT ALII VIVANT!!! |
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Beerswimmer
Invertebrate
USA
119 Posts |
Posted - 26 January 2009 : 08:55:33 AM
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But, yeah, it was just a scratch......at first. Weird
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 26 January 2009 : 09:24:01 AM
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Admit it, Al, it was your wife who pestered you into seeing your doctor, wasn't it? If left up to men, the human race would have gone extinct millenia ago.
PMSL...you dont know how close to the mark you are....LOL!!!
at least it didnt infect the hands...now get back to the keyboard and write...{grin}
Centurion Parmenion
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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CTL666
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 11 October 2009 : 10:53:16 PM
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Originally posted by scarrow
How the hell has Homosapiens managed to survive so long?
I think the answer to that is the same reason as to why the 12 brought about the oil situation in LL. We breed very quickly. Apparently at a much faster rate than we get killed off. Luckily, in the past, the sick and weak died off quite quickly thus leaving the far more successful, smarter, physically fit group to carry on and improve the species. Sadly, these days we keep everyone alive; the sick, the weak, the feeble minded and all manner of people who do nothing for society, but manage to take a lot from society. That may be one of the reasons that we are having so many problems now.
Of course this now opens the door to the debate of how we decide who is worth keeping alive and who isn't; a topic I would expect to see in a real survival situation where the use of scarce resources has to be tightly controlled.
D.
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Ankhsy
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 October 2009 : 4:50:47 PM
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Humans have been here only a blink in the evolutionary timescale. And the way we are keeping the people alive at all costs (and that includes everyone from very premature babies to those badly mentally and physically handicapped, to the very weak and ill with no hope of recovery), it won't be long before we breed ourselves into extinction.
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WarrenH
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 October 2009 : 10:05:16 AM
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Ouch - YES but very True!
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CTL666
Invertebrate
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 October 2009 : 9:37:17 PM
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Within the next four decades TPTB have said that the population of this planet is set to expand to around 9 billion. We will need to increase the amount of food produced by 70% to feed most of them - but that still leave hundreds of millions starving according to the officials. There is no mention of where everyone will live, how they will get enough water and where the resources will be found to give everyone what they want.
Seems to me that in the not too distant future someone is going to engineer a disease which targets certain genetic types and trim our numbers down by a few billion. Either that or we can look forward to massive wars. 
D.
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Homosapiens...rubbish species.
