(September 16, 2017 at 6:13 pm)ignoramus Wrote:

(September 16, 2017 at 10:56 am)vorlon13 Wrote: and . . .

um . .

yeah, compared to all other plants, corn is damn weird.  And without people, it couldn't propagate.  A patch of corn left to itself will die out.  People need to harvest it, separate the seeds and plant them properly, otherwise, it just isn't viable.

That settles it then. There must be a god. No other explanation.

(Warning, corny jokes ahead)

Eg, I'm depressed, my corn fields are dying, going to need an ear...

No doubt there's a kernel of truth here, but if you don't stop this punnery, someone may stalk you.

hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy

(September 16, 2017 at 8:39 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy

Just [grit] your teeth and bear down. It'll pass.

(September 16, 2017 at 9:22 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(September 16, 2017 at 8:39 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy hominy

Just [grit] your teeth and bear down. It'll pass.

Quite the row you're trying to start here.

(September 16, 2017 at 10:04 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(September 16, 2017 at 9:22 pm)Fireball Wrote: Just [grit] your teeth and bear down. It'll pass.

Quite the row you're trying to start here.

Awww, now you're just popping off.

(September 16, 2017 at 10:24 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(September 16, 2017 at 10:04 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Quite the row you're trying to start here.

Awww, now you're just popping off.

I guess we're taking the joke down to the husk, eh?

And just to get dumb --

Making us more resilient could pose other problems to the symbiosis we call the human digestive system. If they wanted us to be able to get the nutrients we need without bacteria and other lifeforms living in us, they would really have to rework the human body to overcome the deficiencies. Also there are issues with creating a totally different type of class warfare where you have the designer people of means versus then randoms who can't afford it.

(September 16, 2017 at 11:27 pm)Coveny Wrote: Making us more resilient could pose other problems to the symbiosis we call the human digestive system. If they wanted us to be able to get the nutrients we need without bacteria and other lifeforms living in us, they would really have to rework the human body to overcome the deficiencies. Also there are issues with creating a totally different type of class warfare where you have the designer people of means versus then randoms who can't afford it.

We have on board already the needed genetics to make our own vitamin C except maybe for a single gene or something. Rats can make their own vitC and at one time our distant ancestors could too. It would be 'easy' (compared to making humans able to regrow severed limbs) to make humans permanently immune to scurvy.

I just saw this video about fetuses in a pod.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgmdF9l7K9o

Sorta on topic methinks.