h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Daniel - I love the virtual bunyip - did you design it yourself?

Virtually.....
I found a script and played with it for a while....
I plan to work on it some more later.

I haven't tried the virtual bunyip yet, but the article raises an interesting question - You suggest racial memory, but Dinosaurs are generally believed to have been extinct before humans existed. Assuming Darwinian theories, there is no exact point where one species stops and another starts - can racial memories span species? (You've read my website... What, if anything, do you believe...?)

Some estimates are that Aboriginals have been in Oz for atleast 40,000 years and Australia being a pretty weird place for animals, still had exremely large mammals, giant wombats and so forth..... memories of these creatures are passed down through Dreamtime stories (and more recently through fossils and bones). There would need to be a fairly complex level of communication though.

On a different level the inbuild triggers, like fear and survival, I believe can be passed on through the evolutionary process. The old things that go bump in the night.

Yup. I don't find it difficult to accept that we might have a built-in genetic disposition to be afraid of something that has never existed in living memory... The trick is in identifying that disposition, and exploiting it in horror movies

I can confirm that:
Extract from the World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia:

Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years or longer. Most scientists believe that they originated in southeastern Asia. When Europeans began to settle in Australia in 1788, there were at least 750,000 Aborigines living on the continent.

Nice article it will make a good entry to the Fun Run

Catcha
vegiman

Very true!

Cheers

Something tells me this conversation has way too many complicities in such a small space.
I propose we either elongate the forum or bring the topic down to a more understandable level.

Yes I agree!

basically bunyips may or may not exist!

And I may be a flirt but I'm not even going to try that right now because three boyfriends is quite enough. So don't panic.

Try what?
Who are your boyfriends?

I signed your guestbook! But I don't consider it as flirting!

Well there's Marshall from school. He has registered on here but he's only been on once. I consider Menza@@e as one though he doesn't and there's Max who's shoulder I fell asleep on, on the bus last night.

I checked my guest book about an hour ago, I'll go check it again now to see your post.

Ok!

Hey are you a musician???
http://www.h2g2.com/A195581

I've put my name down for vocals and keyboard. It's mainly making up my own harmonies and backing. I'm not a very good sight reader.

Jamming is all about playing by ear..... You don't need how to read music!!!