• Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-29 (Tuesday)

    From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Melissa Hollingsworth on Wed Jul 30 17:39:41 2025
    On 7/30/2025 1:36 PM, Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:
    Verily, in article <106dkmr$3b1hn$1@dont-email.me>, did
    weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

    thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:

    I've also been exploring the human bottleneck, when some hotly debated
    event almost wiped homo sapiens out. I think it was simply pressure from >>> neanderthals before we partnered with dogs and surged back, but there is >>> an alternate theory of a plague which hit sapiens much harder than
    neanders or the remaining uprights.

    As I understanbd it, there was an extinction event, stellar or terran.

    There are multiple competing theories, but I think you may be thinking
    of an older event. This one was a narrowing of our own species, not life
    in general. We fell back as the neanderthals surged.

    A plague which hit us very hard would explain it, but so would
    neanderthals who hit us very hard. :)

    I believe the bottleneck event for Homo Sapiens was a volcanic event.
    But I'm tired so could be easily wrong.

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to thetruemelissa@gmail.com on Thu Jul 31 04:30:42 2025
    thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:
    Verily, in article <106dkmr$3b1hn$1@dont-email.me>, did
    weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:
    thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:

    I've also been exploring the human bottleneck, when some hotly debated >>>event almost wiped homo sapiens out. I think it was simply pressure from >>>neanderthals before we partnered with dogs and surged back, but there is >>>an alternate theory of a plague which hit sapiens much harder than >>>neanders or the remaining uprights.

    As I understanbd it, there was an extinction event, stellar or terran.

    There are multiple competing theories, but I think you may be thinking
    of an older event. This one was a narrowing of our own species, not life
    in general. We fell back as the neanderthals surged.

    A plague which hit us very hard would explain it, but so would
    neanderthals who hit us very hard. :)

    I thought the prevailing theory was a supervolcano.

    --
    Not a joke! Don;t jump!

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to dtravel@sonic.net on Fri Aug 1 20:52:27 2025
    On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:39:41 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
    <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

    I believe the bottleneck event for Homo Sapiens was a volcanic event.
    But I'm tired so could be easily wrong.

    I sometimes think Donald Trump modelled himself after the US president
    at the end of "The Sound of Thunder" (which is the story that
    initiated the term "the butterfly effect")

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