Lucky Cow by Mark Pett for February 03, 2018
February 02, 2018
February 04, 2018
Transcript:
Leticia: "Nonsurvival of the Unfittest"? Clare: It's all part of my theory of devolution! When the Portugese arrived on the island of Mauritius in 150, they found it teeming with 50-pound birds with stubby wings. The fat, lazy birds had never had predators. The Portugese called them "dodo" because they had no way to defend themselves. So the Portugese ate the dodos and they soon went extinct. Similarly, we've lost all of our natural predators. We've grown fat and lazy, and have lost our physical ability to defend ourselves! When invaders come, we'll be ripe for the plucking, just like the dodo birds!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
The Dodo was living on an island that had no major predators. Then humans came and being opportunistic Omega Predators they took and killed many birds because they could. They introduced dogs, cats and ferrets that finished them off.
“De-evolution”? No such animal in science. What you mean degeneration. Still not in science. Evolution is about adaption to a changing environment. The Dodo could not do so. In fact the process of evolution is slow. Imagine if we found some mechanism to speed that up? The world’s biome would be far more dynamic, and dangerous to use unless we adapted that quickly too. Release the Mbwn retro-virus (Relic). Let the Evolutionary Games begin!
comics guy 47 about 6 years ago
I seem to recall a Simpsons episode where a flying saucer tried to abduct Homer with a tractor beam… the beam struggled under the load and the saucer wobbled a bit until they deployed a second beam to handle the weight!