Re: Noah didn't fill the ark with gay animals

From: Duncan Harris (dunc_harris_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: 25 Feb 2005 14:49:36 -0800

Maaxx <maaxx@xrs.net> wrote in message news:<8pht488bf0av$.dlg@prague.czechoslovakia.cz>...

> "Noah didn't fill the ark with gay animals"

That's true. There was no ark.

> Which is a non-sequitur, for only people have free will and are able to
> choose to live such a sinful life.

Not true, homosexual behaviour has been observed in a number of
different organisms. In humans sexuality often has little to do with
free will either, people are driven by inner urges.

> But the idea stands, space missions should be staffed by married, fertile
> couples.

If the idea is to propogate the human species and the chances are that
they're not coming back. They'd also sent intelligent scientists too,
if they can find some willing to go. Perhaps NASA could let us get
away from the fundie loons.

> Despite being a Godless Communist hellhole, China does come up with some
> good things. I believe it was Mao who came up with the plan to have planes
> full of young, married, educated Chinese always in flight (about 50,000) so
> that in the event of a nuclear holocaust, a core cadre of Chinese would be
> available to rebuild society. Similarly, if some kind of disaster occurred
> while a fertile young married couple was in space, they would be able to
> land and repopulate the Earth. It only took Noah and his family a few
> centuries to do this. It's a small insurance policy that NASA should pursue.

I don't know about those silly ideas, but if one couple was on space,
and the rest of us were killed, the extinction of the human race would
only be a matter of time.

The effective population size would go through the floor. Inbreeding
depression would be rife within a few generations, that is excepting
that with humans heavily k-selected there is the likelihood that this
couple would only produce babies of one sex (though they could still
have some incestuous gay fun)

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