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NeumeIndil
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I know how you feel with the whole "head too crowded" thing, Nancy. I've been in a bit of a pickle in that sense myself. Got part way into the next part of the Gamling/Morwen thing and can't get into editing mode to whip it into shape, and can't settle down for long enough with any thing else to feel like I'm getting anywhere with it. Partially the holiday season is to blame, I think, because stores are more crowded, work is more hostile (for me at least), there are travel plans/arrangements to make... how's a girl supposed to write smut in the midst of all that? 
And will we get to see pics of said irrigation system-- I mean puppy?
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | So, Vlad, Quarentine? What's the dear Siggy got, anyway? |
He has a lovely malady known to medical science as the Martian Death Flu, which has attached itself to his non-flu-vaccine-protected system with a tenacity I almost envy. I've so far been spared (knock on wood) due to my having gotten a (free) flu shot at work, but I think I originally brought it home to him. I'm generous like that.
So our leaving for a long weekend was postponed, reworked, postponed again, and ultimately became me just going to see my family for my usual 24-hour Christmas Eve to Christmas stretch while he stays home with the cats and enough Gatorade to keep him afloat until I get back tomorrow. (Meaning I got those extra days we were sitting at home to lounge about with the aforementioned good book.) I feel bad about leaving him alone on Christmas, but he's mostly sleeping anyway and I'll be coming back with presents and all the food he could possibly want (at least when he starts eating again).
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Jurio
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It might be a little late in coming  but Happy Holidays!
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I wonder even if human do find a way to live somewhere else, if we will not just die. I mean we die if we go into foreign countries from illnesses that our bodies can't stave off. So if we find another place that can support life, it is bound to have diseases that we have no idea how to handle isn't it? Our bodies wouldn't be able to fight and we would die.
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| Jurio wrote: | | I wonder even if human do find a way to live somewhere else, if we will not just die. I mean we die if we go into foreign countries from illnesses that our bodies can't stave off. So if we find another place that can support life, it is bound to have diseases that we have no idea how to handle isn't it? Our bodies wouldn't be able to fight and we would die. |
Not really. Some people are born with natural immunities to foreign contagions. Some are born unnaturally vulnerable to it (me). What might happen is that a certain percentage would die instantly, another percentage would come unscathed, and some might catch it and survive, passing the immunity down the generations. Humans would adapt, one way or another.
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Jurio
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Not really. Some people are born with natural immunities to foreign contagions. Some are born unnaturally vulnerable to it (me). What might happen is that a certain percentage would die instantly, another percentage would come unscathed, and some might catch it and survive, passing the immunity down the generations. Humans would adapt, one way or another. |
That is possible. I do not think it would happen though, unless some of our ancesstors had originally come from there. I think people are immune to foreign diseases because their ancestors came from there. So they passed down the immune gene.
So after reading your reply I changed my mind. It would be possible, but many would die, and it would be very hard to adapt. That should be a little better. 
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| Jurio wrote: | | Quote: |
Not really. Some people are born with natural immunities to foreign contagions. Some are born unnaturally vulnerable to it (me). What might happen is that a certain percentage would die instantly, another percentage would come unscathed, and some might catch it and survive, passing the immunity down the generations. Humans would adapt, one way or another. |
That is possible. I do not think it would happen though, unless some of our ancesstors had originally come from there. I think people are immune to foreign diseases because their ancestors came from there. So they passed down the immune gene. |
I don't think it works that way because there are plenty of diseases, modern ones who still create diversion amongst people: some get it, some don't, even if the strain or immunity has never been present in the ancestral line. Mother Nature has her own way of dealing with things. Have you ever watched the tv show Jeremiah?
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Haleth
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Rhapsody is right.
There's an example of the situation in fairly recent history.
The people living in the Americas when the Europeans landed had never been exposed to smallpox. Most of those who caught it died as there was no immunity and nothing that had been passed down. Some, however, recovered.
One thing to remember is that the bugs grow up with the organisms they infect. If the bug has never seen a mammal before, it likely wouldn't be able to make one sick.
There's no guarantee that life on another world would be even remotely like our Earth based life. It could be so different that there's no way we could interact with it at all on a molecular basis(unless it was sentient and could communicate.)
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Jurio
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| Quote: | | There's no guarantee that life on another world would be even remotely like our Earth based life. It could be so different that there's no way we could interact with it at all on a molecular basis(unless it was sentient and could communicate.) |
I never did think of that. That is what I get for not thinking things all the way through. I get some more interesting ideas!  That I would have never thought of on my own.
Maybe langauage was created simply as a way to share ideas.
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| Jurio wrote: |
Maybe langauage was created simply as a way to share ideas. |
I'm almost sure it was. Humans have a built in need to communicate with each other.
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Jurio
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| Quote: | | Humans have a built in need to communicate with each other. |
As does everything else. It's just a matter of whether or not the species has the ability to understand what each other is saying. We can not understand what a dog is saying unless we take the time to learn. A dog doesn't know what we say unless we teach it. Like how we teach it to sit, stay, and other things. It also shows us something of it's language. For instance looking at the door could mean that it has to go out. You would only know that by watching the dog. Just as the dog only learns the commands that you tell it to do, by watching what you make it do.
How to you get the quotes to say who wrote it?
Because I do not know how to make it work and it make me cry! 
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NancyBrooke
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| Haleth wrote: | | Humans have a built in need to communicate with each other. |
| Jurio wrote: | | As does everything else. |
 I'm not sure my chair or my windows are trying to communicate with me ... at least, I hope not. I'm not sure my chair has anything at all complementary to say!
| Jurio-the-Curious wrote: | How to you get the quotes to say who wrote it?
Because I do not know how to make it work and it make me cry! |
If, when you are reading someone's post, and you want to reply to it and quote them, you press that little |quote| button at the top right hand corner of the post and the system includes their post in yours automatically, appropriately attibuted.
Otherwise, you use this code: [ quote="NAME HERE" ] blah blah blah [ /quote ] but without the spaces before and after the brackets.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke the eloquent wrote: | | blah blah blah |
In other words...yadda yadda yadda.
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Jurio
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | I'm not sure my chair or my windows are trying to communicate with me |
Yep they are! They are just very subtle! 
| NancyBrooke the nice helpful one wrote: | | Otherwise, you use this code: [ quote="NAME HERE" ] blah blah blah [ /quote ] |
Thanks I got it now!
| Alassante the equally helpful, but funny one wrote: | | In other words...yadda yadda yadda |
and other sorts of gobley gook? I think that is the first time I used that word. I don't even know if it is actually one or two.
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