AzurePhoenix

dammit, wrong thread..... ignore this......

You're a funny little pervert

My point is a diamond-edged katana

Yeah right. If you were that close to a feasible idea, the oil companies would already have had you whacked.

Oh Wise Master of All that is Scaly, is it possible that you know how expensive (ballpark) red-footed tortoises are? Or if they need anything particularly special that I might overlook? I'm thinkng about getting one or two, but I can't find too much good info.

This sort of thinking epitomizes everything that's ever been wrong with humanity . It doesn't matter that they're not Earth life. They evolved there, therefore it's their planet (or moon, or whatever). If you want to claim a lifeless world, go ahead. Haven't you seen Independence Day? It's the same thing, but this time, the exobacteria are us, and we're the gnarly alien monsters. Just uglier.

A lifetime supply of free coconuts and bananas

Not necessarily. Mars is too cold for most Earthling life, and that's only because it evolved here, with Earthling conditions. Even so, there are organims here that could survive there. Life will be adapted to survive on the planet it evolved on. What we don't know is the conditions necessary for life to evolve. All we know are the conditions necessary for Earthling life to survive.

Hehehe. I guess if water could melt on Mars, there already would be liquid water on Mars. Social skills and common sense . I lack both. I guess I don't get immortality then

What if something's alive on Europa? Even Mars. There's no way in Hell we should disrupt another living world like we did ours. Even if all there is are exo-monerans or exo-protists. And making everyone immortal will put a fundamental stop to our evolution, when we should be keeping it going at full speed. Death is necessary for change and advancement. Even keeping around the greatest minds around for too long might be a mistake. Without drastic change, minds, systems, and anything else grow stale, and eventually decay and grow cancerous. If anything, the lifespan of the general populace should be reduced to a reasonable, functional age, unless we can find a way to ensure good health, mental-strength and the ability to work and function into our eighties. Beside, high IQs equals poor social-skills in many cases (many, not all, not even most). Mine's only a comparatively poor 128 (low around here at least(as in this site)), and I'm already a psycho-human-hater with minimal abilities to function in unfamiliar social settings.

Instead, what do we have? Chairs and kitchen dinettes.... "sure we slaughtered the forests and every ancient, enormous entity in them, but isn't this woodwork lovely?" I loathe humanity

I'd actually prefer "Mistress Yoda"

Ten percent of those who contract the very worst strain survive it. Transsfusing hteir blood won't cure it, but it will fight the disease and incease odds of survial. Ebola's my favorite disease, and I've done the research. But disease is too dangerous for warfare, especially something as virulent as Ebola. Too many options for backfire. As I've said before, what we need are some sort of neural fry bombs, you know, just wipe out the enemies' brains with some energy pulse. Destroy a city with minimal damage (most dmage would come from people driving I suppose).

Plus, Old growth forests are often the most beautiful, awe-inspiring forests on the planet. They're age is immense, as are the trees themselves.

Would I choose? No way in hell. I know nothing about physics, and my own ethical stances would taint the choice-pool. It would need to be chosen in some logical, fair way that I can't imagine at the moment. As for Einstein, my respect for certain people form the past, such as Galileo, Copernicus, DiVinci, and Einstein (I believe anyway), is that they leapt ahead of others, regardless of the consequences (at first at least) in the search for truth and understanding. Not just scientists, but leaders, and maybe some humanitarians. And I don't want to "appear" anything. I joke, I mock, I ridicule, and I talk. I talk alot. That's who I am. Deal with it, or go choke on a pinecone.

Red-footed tortoises are beautiful, cool and have great personalities, and are relatively easy to care for with the proper set-up. Leopard Geckos are easy and excellent, and come in any practically color you want, but I think would be too small. Maybe a blue-tongued skink? Collared Lizards are also cool, but can be wiley and have nasty bites.

We saw the The Miracle of Birth, and let me tell you, it wasn't a science film. It was a horror flick. Still, it wasn't a tenth as horrifying or gruesome as "The Silent Terror; Sexually Transmitted Diseases"

One problem with the virus. MUTATION!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, if your kids are as smart as you want them to be, they might be able to override their procreative instincts, 'cuz honestly, how stupid do you have to be to have in excess of three kids?

Yeah, that was a good croc flick. And come to think of it, Anacondas (the second one) had a lot of science stuff in it. Some was total crap, but still...

X-Men. TONS of physics, especially in the comics, like alternate dimensional stuff, space-ship, the make-believe "scientific" explanation for many of the cahracters' powers. And who cares how false Star Wars was? It totally ROCKS!!!

At this point, are they really your genes anymore? And if you want to ensure they ahve children, you might wanna think about making them pretty. I know it's not necessary, but it might give them a slight edge.