Vicki Rosenzweig
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From: virus-owner
To: virus
Subject: Re: virus: Re: Opposable thumbs (fwd)
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 1996 11:24PM
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> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 17:32:04 -0600
> From: John Steele <john_steele@fsti.com>
> To: Atheism <virus@lucifer.com>
> Subject: Re: virus: Re: Opposable thumbs
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> >From the point of simply maximizing your numbers, the bacteria would be
> the best system to use, since from the point of view of sheer numbers,
> they clearly win.
Right now they do. But evolution is an eternal tournament with the winner
moving to the next round and the losers being consigned to oblivion. I
would choose the human as my survival vehicle because I would be more
likely to survive for a longer period of time. I would have a chance to
escape the destruction of the solar system and eventually propagate
throughout the universe.
I might take a chance and be a bacteria such as E. coli which lives
inside humans but you would never know if you would be eradicated before
the Diaspora.
Duane Hewitt