Comments on: What if your 15 minutes of fame comes 3 million years after you die? http://boingboing.net/2010/09/29/what-if-your-15-minu.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 07:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/09/29/what-if-your-15-minu.html#comment-898859 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-898859 Whenever I see someone wearing that shirt, I'm going to ask them if they plan to be cremated. If they say yes, I'll laugh my ass off. On a related note, transhumanists should also think very carefully before wearing it. Whenever I see someone wearing that shirt, I’m going to ask them if they plan to be cremated. If they say yes, I’ll laugh my ass off. On a related note, transhumanists should also think very carefully before wearing it.

]]> By: Teller http://boingboing.net/2010/09/29/what-if-your-15-minu.html#comment-898355 Teller Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-898355 Short detour: I do wish BB had a post-Submit edit feature beyond Preview. Like for all the times I've wanted to change 'Christ, what an asshole' to 'That guy's such an asshole.' Short detour: I do wish BB had a post-Submit edit feature beyond Preview. Like for all the times I’ve wanted to change ‘Christ, what an asshole’ to ‘That guy’s such an asshole.’

]]> By: RedShirt77 http://boingboing.net/2010/09/29/what-if-your-15-minu.html#comment-898246 RedShirt77 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-898246 All the more reason to get my name carved into my Femur. I'll be damned if I get called "lucy" by some future super evolved human. All the more reason to get my name carved into my Femur. I’ll be damned if I get called “lucy” by some future super evolved human.

]]> By: superflippy http://boingboing.net/2010/09/29/what-if-your-15-minu.html#comment-898255 superflippy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-898255 It's stuff like this that has me rethinking cremation. It’s stuff like this that has me rethinking cremation.

]]> By: RedShirt77 http://boingboing.net/2010/09/29/what-if-your-15-minu.html#comment-898259 RedShirt77 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-898259 But really, are you going to go lie in a riverbed at 95 when its your time? But really, are you going to go lie in a riverbed at 95 when its your time?

]]> By: bmcraec http://boingboing.net/2010/09/29/what-if-your-15-minu.html#comment-898287 bmcraec Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-898287 Given 1) the far greater numbers of H. Sap, 2) the industrialized nature of managing death, and 3) the reverence virtually all cultures currently flourishing on the planet, or known and studied by archeologists and anthropologists, I'd say that future fossil finds will be plentiful. That is, unless the sun goes nova, or something. I have no idea if any evidence of evolutionary change will be deducible from the fossil evidence itself. LIke social evolution, I suspect that it will be the context of masses of individual finds that will fuel the hypotheses of future hominid palaeontologists. Then again, there could be an alternate future. What if the Singularity actually produces Homo Novus, whose main evolutionary thrust is to get off this little nest plane? Maybe 5 million years from now, only the remains of the dead-end H. Sap populations will remain. Anyone recall a SciFi short story from the '50s or '60s about evolved children who can bend space-time and disappear, leaving their "Tween" parent to learn the non-Euclidean geometry required to follow them? Brilliant, haunting story. Given 1) the far greater numbers of H. Sap, 2) the industrialized nature of managing death, and 3) the reverence virtually all cultures currently flourishing on the planet, or known and studied by archeologists and anthropologists, I’d say that future fossil finds will be plentiful. That is, unless the sun goes nova, or something.

I have no idea if any evidence of evolutionary change will be deducible from the fossil evidence itself. LIke social evolution, I suspect that it will be the context of masses of individual finds that will fuel the hypotheses of future hominid palaeontologists.

Then again, there could be an alternate future. What if the Singularity actually produces Homo Novus, whose main evolutionary thrust is to get off this little nest plane? Maybe 5 million years from now, only the remains of the dead-end H. Sap populations will remain.

Anyone recall a SciFi short story from the ’50s or ’60s about evolved children who can bend space-time and disappear, leaving their “Tween” parent to learn the non-Euclidean geometry required to follow them? Brilliant, haunting story.

]]> By: bmcraec http://boingboing.net/2010/09/29/what-if-your-15-minu.html#comment-898288 bmcraec Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-898288 Crap. Proof-read before hitting Submit. 1st para, 3rd point should read "3) the reverence for the dead of virtually…) 4th para, the 2nd sentence should read "…to get off this little nest planet?" Oh, and the children in the short story coined the terms "Dims" to mean those who simply didn't get it (we would call them Republicans), "Tweens" and "Brights. I hope I make the cut from Dims to Tweens. Crap. Proof-read before hitting Submit.

1st para, 3rd point should read “3) the reverence for the dead of virtually…)

4th para, the 2nd sentence should read “…to get off this little nest planet?”

Oh, and the children in the short story coined the terms “Dims” to mean those who simply didn’t get it (we would call them Republicans), “Tweens” and “Brights.

I hope I make the cut from Dims to Tweens.

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