[11:15
AM]
So,
as an example of the stupid crap that keeps me from having a decent
night's sleep...
Long
about 4am, "Lost in Space" comes into my head.
Do
I take advantage of this to have a nice campy space adventure dream?
Nooooo
No,
what happened instead was my anthropologist education kicked in and
started working on the problem of the most viable breeding program to
minimize inbreeding, most fully expand on available genetic
bloodlines, and achieve a sustainable population if they ever got to
a planet that didn't want to kill them.
This
obsessive garbage churned until I got out of bed around 5:50
After
all...as long as humans were trying to colonize a place anyway,
you've gotta work with what you have, and that was very little.
Yes...part
of my barely conscious mind was fixated on saving the human race with
a fictional group of explorers.
I
told it to shut up and do something else many times.
Ah
well
[1:08
PM] Mr. Brown:
I
would be strange - a family getting marooned somewhere and having to
try to populate
Most
would probably just die off
[2:26
PM]
Yup.
Well...I mean they wouldn't have a lot of wiggle room for
mistakes...
Though
the Robinsons were all selected as exceptional specimens, as was
Don...
And
Dr. Smith is...well...he got an advanced degree and a resume that put
him as chief medic on a stave-off-the-apocalypse space project.
So
as far as physical and mental fitness goes, they were all in the
99.9th+ percentile of Earthlings.
[2:34
PM] Mr. Brown:
I
wonder how far DNA would degrade if mutations show up. Like how many
generations.
[2:36
PM]
Yup...how
long til the recessives and mutations start to cause trouble.
Even
if Earth science had our genetic knowledge at the show timeline, I
don't know that they had anything on the ship to treat such issues.
[2:37
PM] Mr. Brown:
Populations
of humans were not very large a long time ago
They
survived smaller pools
[2:38
PM]
It
was bigger than 5 adults and 2 kids
[2:38
PM] Mr. Brown:
Yes
But
how different is all our DNA? That's where it seems amazing.
[2:41
PM]
?
See...this
is what happens...
[2:42
PM] Mr. Brown:
I
mean I have a recessive gene
[2:44
PM]
We
all do. But yes. Something health-affecting? That'd hit
pretty fast in the generations if you were in the Robins-uman Race
group.
[2:44
PM] Mr. Brown:
They
would have to have genetic tools to modify things, including
themselves.
Start
splicing with the alien humanoids they keep meeting.
lol
[2:46
PM]
[2:53
PM] Mr. Brown:
In
the movie didn't the Dr. turn into a spider guy?
[2:53
PM]
I
was so powerless to stop the obsessive thinking that I got to the
stupid and pointless point of starting to label X and Y strains in my
head.
"OK...so
Professor Robinson is the dad and that's a problem, but recall only
Penny has his hair color and it's usually dominant, so if we call him
A-X A-Y...then Penny probably picked up his A-X but Maureen's b-X.
So Judy would be B-X/A-X...so with care, A-Y could..."
(tortured
mind - "Shut UP! SHUT UP!")
[2:54
PM] Mr. Brown:
Haha
Have
all the women mate with the non family members.
LOL
[2:56
PM]
Yes
Rotation
of that HAS to be phase 1
[2:56
PM] Mr. Brown:
And,
of course, the mother and father can have more till she shouldn't.
[2:57
PM]
No!
She should never have more with Mr Robinson
There's
already too many in that line.
They'd
have to try for a boy and ideally two girls, each, with Don and Smith
All
of the women.... (shudder)
At
least that
Honestly,
they should go as long as they can in Phase 1.
Will
would be a danger (snerk) until he could be matched with Penny's
daughters at the earliest.
[3:05
PM] Mr. Brown:
If
they have the tech, though, nobody has to do it the old fashioned way
They
can just splice everything together they need, getting rid of
anything bad.
That's
the best scenario
[3:07
PM]
Well...they
don't have it.
A
big rack of human incubators would be nice, but they had agriculture
stuff and were a little scout ship.
[3:18
PM] Mr. Brown:
You're
thinking of the no other options way
The
women would have to be the incubators
[3:20
PM]
Yup
The
tech is limited to what was on the TV show in the 60s
[3:22
PM] Mr. Brown:
So
they might be able to adjust the DNA then IVF into the women
Considering
they are adjusting the vegetation
[3:24
PM]
They
weren't though. They were planting earth veggies.
[3:27
PM] Mr. Brown:
So
they are advanced enough to go into space that far, get lost, and all
they can do is plant what they brought? HAHAHAHAHAH!
Start
Trek is more advanced.
[3:30
PM]
Well,
yes, in most ways. It's a totally different technology set. Though the Robot's AI is better than Star Trek's capabilities until Data came along. Some fans think it is secretly alien tech. Too bad Earth lost it in space.
Actually,
if you haven't, watch the first few episodes of Lost in Space.
Before it got campy it was excellent sci-fi and really dark.
[3:33
PM] Mr. Brown:
I've
seen episodes here and there when I was younger, but don't know a lot
about it
[3:45
PM]
Look
it up. I'd love to see it tried again with the original
story line
[11:55
AM] Mr. Brown:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4443184/Fisherman-invents-electric-fishing-rod-Malaysia.html
Not
sure if a failure or success
[11:56
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
love to fish in drainage ditches
[11:57
AM] Mr. Brown:
About
as clean as the Ganges river in India
[11:57
AM] Mr. Blue:
LOL
[12:19
PM]
So
is that fuzz the nimbus of electricity around the fisherman's body?
[12:19
PM] Mr. Blue:
It's
like the fast vibration when a cartoon character gets electrocuted.
[12:20
PM]
"Fire
and rescue service officers stand outside death zone around body of
Mr. Siada, after several incidents dragging it out of a drainage
ditch, which was eventually accomplished with a long gaff."
[12:20
PM] Mr. Blue:
Complete
with sizzle lines coming off his head
[12:21
PM]
Heh
[12:03
PM] Mr. Blue:
I
got a neat book
Local surnames, circa 1895
[12:09
PM]
Yes?
What
was popular?
[12:17
PM] Mr. Blue:
About
1/3rd German and 2/3rds English
Virtually
nothing that can't be traced to German-speaking places or
English-speaking places
The
only thing close to “foreign” I found was a bunch of people named
"Turk", but that apparently has Scottish/Gaelic origins
[12:45
PM]
Woot!
Me,
I favor "torc". But I lost it at "[seriously?]"
As
far as the turkey's "legendary stupidity", only the
domesticated ones have rocks in their heads.
[12:49
PM] Mr. Blue:
Turkish
farmers arrived in Ireland about 6,000 years ago, bringing
agriculture with them
There
was no Turkey 6000 years ago.
[12:50
PM]
Dang...bigger
subject than expected.
Well...the
landmass was there
[12:50
PM] Mr. Blue:
Celts
predate 'Turks' even in Turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts#/media/File:Celtic_expansion_in_Europe.png
Scottish:
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Tuirc, a patronymic from the
byname Torc 'boar'.
[12:58
PM]
So
it's "torc" and torc is "boar", and it was applied to the Irish because dim Americans couldn't tell that it's Scottish
[12:58
PM] Mr. Blue:
“The
name derives from a boar's foul demeanor and body hair - similar to a
Turk.”
[12:59
PM]
LOL @Mr. Blue
(Ellis
Island clerk) "And your surname, sir?"
(Hulking
Highlander) "Teeoooorrrrk, lad!"
"Irish, eh?"
"Yerr aff!"
"What
does it mean?"
"Ken
uet means lieett meh inna yer coontreh nayw eurr ull spleht yoor faht
'ead n feed yeh t' me peggs!"
"Ah.
Welcome to America, Mr. Turk."
[1:07
PM] Mr. Blue:
Heheh
