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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by Rainymood on Friday January 05, 2018 @09:23AM (#16078719)
Of course not, but there just has to be one apart from ours, right? Besides we will all be extinct anyway before that because evolution takes billions of years.
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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by saguro on Friday January 05, 2018 @09:39AM (#16078803)
That's probably a question that CS researches will get to address one day in the future... Estimating what percentage of reasonable length DNA arrangements leads to intelligent organisms.
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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by throwanem on Friday January 05, 2018 @10:27AM (#16079133)
That's not a meaningful question; it needs selection pressures over time to make sense.
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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by tjoff on Friday January 05, 2018 @09:41AM (#16078814)
Has to be one apart from ours? For what? For there to be two special species?
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