On 11/25/08, Durova <nadezhda.durova(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Currently, the planet holds an estimated 6.72 billion
people. If we pass
out 6.72 billion frozen pizzas stripped of the words "cook before eating"
and one in a million chomps down on an icy pizza and die of e. coli as a
result--let us consider that our gene pool might be ever so slightly
improved.
This would probably backfire due to the lack of correlation between
immune system and intellect. The raw-pizza-eater would, with our luck,
just contaminate other people and cause them to die instead (despite
having the sense not to eat uncooked foods).
At the San Diego Zoo last week I watched pandas. The
world needs more room
for pandas.
Pandas with e. coli may have difficulty transmitting it to other
pandas, or so I've read...
—C.W.