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

Come on! As a YorkshiremanI'm already superhuman
Modesty prevents me from going further

That's the spirit I expect from a Yorkshireman!

I don't know.

Why would you?

If you're past the age of procreation, whatever evolution you could do is behind you.

One might argue that one could still evolve one's personality further.

But that's probably not necessary for the present company

Maybe not necessary, but it could happen.

By present company I mean everybody who has been active in this thread. Just saying.

I think we are evolving in a spiritual/mental sense. It's slow.

Just catching up with the Prof’s primordial soup. I do miss the Debenhams coffee shop.

Have we evolved ? methinks the human species is advancing in some areasbut! going backwards in many others

Speak for yourself

I'm only joking. Couldn't resist

Seriously, though, evolution did not stop with Darwin publishing his

And now we can even force evolution ourselves and change its course with DNA technologies. This could go many ways of course. It only takes one mad to turn us into

Look at what they've done with genetic modification of farm crops.

And green, glowing rabbits

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/13/glow-in-dark-rabbits-scientists

Elmer Fudd & The Poachers would love that

http://darwinawards.com/

Intelligence some have it! Some don't!

What's your name ? ---- Oh! Hard questions first eh!

Was Pilot Patrick so stupid he was nominated in both 2019 and 2020?

Quote:
"Pilot Patrick's In Flight Shower: With 10,000 hours of flight time and an instructor certificate, Patrick was not alarmed when aviation fuel (white gas) entered the cockpit and sloshed around his feet. His attitude was, "What, Me Worry?"...

2019
Pilot Patrick's In-Flight Shower
With 10,000 hours of flight time and an instructor certificate, when aviation fuel (AVGAS) entered the cockpit and sloshed around his feet Patrick's attitude was, 'What, Me Worry?'"

Maybe it happened twice, a year apart.

If you keep banging your head at a wall!
The intelligent ones STOP when it starts to hurt..

Back to the cicadas.
Did I ever tell you that my daughter once tasted the forbidden Casu Marzu and found it to be delicious?
Casu Marzu means rotten cheese in Italian. It is a traditional albeit controversial 's cheese from the Italian of Sardinia, where it has been made for hundreds of years. The cheese differs from other cheeses in that it is placed outside for some time while it is produced. Then a hole is dug in the middle of the large, round cheese, in which the fly species Piophila Casei (the cheese fly) is allowed to lay s.
The fly's eggs develop into maggots that move around the cheese and secrete an enzyme that contributes to the cheese's consistency and taste characteristics.
The cheese is eaten while the maggots are alive and moving around in the cheese!
Due to severe health risks the cheese has been banned from selling and bringing across borders in the EU

If the maggots become flies, dopes the cheese fly?

I heard on Q.I. that the maggots can jump 6 inches up from the cheese so they probably leave it before they grow their wings

Maggots can be used for cleaning gangrene out of a wound.