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| User: "John Wilkins" |
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| Title: Re: Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies |
07 Dec 2005 09:00:39 PM |
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Desertphile wrote:
Michael R. Rose made scientific history with experiments manipulating
the life spans of fruit flies.
This is great news! If one is a fruit fly, I mean.
Not necessarily. After one can no longer mate, what will you sepdn your time
doing? Reading?
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John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
Nihil tam absurdum quod non quidam Philosophi dixerit - adapted from Cicero
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| User: "Peter Besenbruch" |
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| Title: Re: Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies |
07 Dec 2005 10:12:42 PM |
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Michael R. Rose made scientific history with experiments manipulating
the life spans of fruit flies.
Desertphile wrote:
This is great news! If one is a fruit fly, I mean.
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:00:39 +1000, John Wilkins wrote:
Not necessarily. After one can no longer mate, what will you sepdn your
time doing? Reading?
Browsing Usenet, it's far more rewarding.
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| User: "Michael Siemon" |
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| Title: Re: Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies |
07 Dec 2005 10:25:16 PM |
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In article <pan.2005.12.08.04.12.39.876812@no.junk.lava.net>,
Peter Besenbruch <prb@no.junk.lava.net> wrote:
Michael R. Rose made scientific history with experiments manipulating
the life spans of fruit flies.
Desertphile wrote:
This is great news! If one is a fruit fly, I mean.
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:00:39 +1000, John Wilkins wrote:
Not necessarily. After one can no longer mate, what will you sepdn your
time doing? Reading?
Browsing Usenet, it's far more rewarding.
"rewarding" does not equal "instantly gratifying"...
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| User: "Fluidly Unsure" |
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| Title: Re: Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies |
07 Dec 2005 11:59:09 PM |
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Michael Siemon wrote:
In article <pan.2005.12.08.04.12.39.876812@no.junk.lava.net>,
Peter Besenbruch <prb@no.junk.lava.net> wrote:
Michael R. Rose made scientific history with experiments manipulating
the life spans of fruit flies.
Desertphile wrote:
This is great news! If one is a fruit fly, I mean.
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:00:39 +1000, John Wilkins wrote:
Not necessarily. After one can no longer mate, what will you sepdn your
time doing? Reading?
Browsing Usenet, it's far more rewarding.
Which dating service do you use?
"rewarding" does not equal "instantly gratifying"...
I don't want any kind of fly gratifying itself on my bananas.
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Liquid
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| User: "John Wilkins" |
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| Title: Re: Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies |
07 Dec 2005 10:42:55 PM |
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Michael Siemon wrote:
In article <pan.2005.12.08.04.12.39.876812@no.junk.lava.net>,
Peter Besenbruch <prb@no.junk.lava.net> wrote:
Michael R. Rose made scientific history with experiments manipulating
the life spans of fruit flies.
Desertphile wrote:
This is great news! If one is a fruit fly, I mean.
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:00:39 +1000, John Wilkins wrote:
Not necessarily. After one can no longer mate, what will you sepdn your
time doing? Reading?
Browsing Usenet, it's far more rewarding.
For a fruitfly? I mean they may live longer, but they're still a fruitfly.
"rewarding" does not equal "instantly gratifying"...
It does in *my* vocabulary, mate! :-)
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
Nihil tam absurdum quod non quidam Philosophi dixerit - adapted from Cicero
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| User: "Michael Siemon" |
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| Title: Re: Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies |
08 Dec 2005 12:24:33 AM |
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In article <dn8dki$2861$2@bunyip2.cc.uq.edu.au>,
John Wilkins <john@wilkins.id.au> wrote:
Michael Siemon wrote:
In article <pan.2005.12.08.04.12.39.876812@no.junk.lava.net>,
Peter Besenbruch <prb@no.junk.lava.net> wrote:
Michael R. Rose made scientific history with experiments manipulating
the life spans of fruit flies.
Desertphile wrote:
This is great news! If one is a fruit fly, I mean.
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:00:39 +1000, John Wilkins wrote:
Not necessarily. After one can no longer mate, what will you sepdn your
time doing? Reading?
Browsing Usenet, it's far more rewarding.
For a fruitfly? I mean they may live longer, but they're still a fruitfly.
"rewarding" does not equal "instantly gratifying"...
It does in *my* vocabulary, mate! :-)
Ummm, how does that jibe with years (decades?) on a thingy?
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| User: "John Wilkins" |
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| Title: Re: Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies |
08 Dec 2005 05:27:36 PM |
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Michael Siemon wrote:
In article <dn8dki$2861$2@bunyip2.cc.uq.edu.au>,
John Wilkins <john@wilkins.id.au> wrote:
Michael Siemon wrote:
In article <pan.2005.12.08.04.12.39.876812@no.junk.lava.net>,
Peter Besenbruch <prb@no.junk.lava.net> wrote:
Michael R. Rose made scientific history with experiments manipulating
the life spans of fruit flies.
Desertphile wrote:
This is great news! If one is a fruit fly, I mean.
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:00:39 +1000, John Wilkins wrote:
Not necessarily. After one can no longer mate, what will you sepdn your
time doing? Reading?
Browsing Usenet, it's far more rewarding.
For a fruitfly? I mean they may live longer, but they're still a fruitfly.
"rewarding" does not equal "instantly gratifying"...
It does in *my* vocabulary, mate! :-)
Ummm, how does that jibe with years (decades?) on a thingy?
I'm still waiting for the "rewarding" bit...
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John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
Nihil tam absurdum quod non quidam Philosophi dixerit - adapted from Cicero
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| User: "Walter Bushell" |
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| Title: Re: Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies |
08 Dec 2005 11:27:30 AM |
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In article <dn87kp$2bl9$5@bunyip2.cc.uq.edu.au>,
John Wilkins <john@wilkins.id.au> wrote:
Desertphile wrote:
Michael R. Rose made scientific history with experiments manipulating
the life spans of fruit flies.
This is great news! If one is a fruit fly, I mean.
Not necessarily. After one can no longer mate, what will you sepdn your time
doing? Reading?
Posting to TO. >;P)
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"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any
charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgement of his
peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totali-
tarian government whether Nazi or Communist." -- W. Churchill, Nov 21, 1943
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