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sure on a continent like Africa, it is obvious... but I am not trying to compare at all. People who live in the jungle or in very deep poverty have other perceptions which we do NOT have (yet)... or have lost
actually I should have been careful before talking the first time...
So it is what I said on page one. The map shows the IQ of the original population of the country...Quote:
Originally Posted by mamboni
interesting, of course the Catamarans were used in the AC for the very first time the next time next cup was contested after win by the Alan Bond funded, Ben Lexcen designed winged keel single hull yatch Australia II.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hitcher
Dennis Conner was the guy who introduced the catamarans to the AC. Lots of controversy but I agree, it dilluted the essence of what the America's Cup was all about IMO. I think there is a place for double/triple hulled and skiff racing but I don't think the AC is it.
aeondaze, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the original people. I got a lot of respect for them. I hate seeing whats been done, being done to them.
It has been an interesting time here in the SF Bay with the cup and all. Seeing these cats going 40 knots right at you, while you are in a boat doing 6 knots, gives a feeling of awe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glass
Glass, I'm sure you know more about the AC than I do. I've crewed on racing sailboats before, it just doesn't interest me. My whole philosophy on sailing is just too different.
Perhaps if the AC went back to monohull boats, more traditional, I'd be more interested. Do you ever read latitude 38? It's a good, free publication here, all about sailing, there's a lot of good letters written and published....
Here's the online link.
http://www.latitude38.com/index.lasso
The part about Eastern Europe and Russia is what makes it racially bias.Quote:
Originally Posted by singular_me
As whatshername posted before, Bulgaria is in the lower 90s not in the 100s as the rest of Europe, and also over and above any mixed nations.
This still doesn't negate the original inbreeding and Aboriginal in Australia though.
How about you try some facts instead of you're predisposition for spurious trash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Horn
You're just as inbred (maybe more so, you seem to want to throw the accusation ot there) as any one else...:pQuote:
Of our 23,000 protein-coding gene base pairs, we get 11,500 from each of our parents, 5,750 from our grandparents, 2,875 from our great-grandparents, and so on. That repeated division means that by the fifteenth generation - which is only a few centuries ago - your average ancestor (assuming zero inbreeding) is contributing, on average, less than a single gene to your current genome. Go back a thousand years to the 30th generation, and the average genetic contribution is effectively zero.
While it isn't really accurate to say that we're all inbred, at least not in a genetic sense, it might actually be fair to say that we're all the descendants of inbred people. Numerous theories have been put forward about a huge decrease in the human population tens of thousands of years ago - one particularly extreme version suggests the human population in sub-Saharan Africa remained under 2,000 for as much as 100,000 years, while more moderate hypotheses suggest a population bottleneck of about 15,000 that occurred about 70,000 years ago. Either population bottleneck would most likely necessitate fairly extensive inbreeding, and that's backed up today by the relatively low level of genetic variation within humans.
Here is what an IQ of 173 gets you
http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.c...ney_technology
http://fortunepostcards.files.wordpr...pg?w=614&h=400Quote:
Former Amazon CFO Joy Covey dropped out of high school, used her 173 IQ to get to Harvard Business School, helped Jeff Bezos take Amazon public--and then proved that you can lead a full and very rich life beyond business.
FORTUNE -- Joy Covey, who was Amazon.com's CFO in its startup days and guided the company through its IPO, died Wednesday in a bicycle accident in California. Covey, 50, was reportedly struck while cycling on Skyline Boulevard in the mountains of San Mateo County. She leaves an eight-year-old son, Tyler.
Moral?
You can be road kill with a high IQ as easily as the dumbest person on earth.
Looking for a fig leaf to cover up with, are we?Quote:
Originally Posted by aeondaze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFa2PBYdCYI