Re: The Great Filter

Twirlip of Greymist (
Sat, 31 Aug 1996 13:32:20 -0700 (PDT)

On Aug 31, 10:08am, John K Clark wrote:

} 2) Why did Lucy have a hand capable of moving things with precision when it
} doesn't look like she had a brain good enough to take advantage of it?
} The first very primitive tools appeared over a million years after Lucy's

For throwing? Wooden spears or uncut rocks?

} going for her, she was small, weak, slow and had puny teeth and claws, yet
} for some reason she thrived.

Don't forget sweat glands. (Not that that solves any real problems.)

Merry part,

She became a nun, a nun all dressed in white,
And he became a canted priest and prayed for her by night.