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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: What if???
- Message-ID: <nyikos.715541196@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <j1moody-010992232532@lafmac15.lafortune.lab.nd.edu> <ywxyd5c@rpi.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:26:36 GMT
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- In <ywxyd5c@rpi.edu> cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker) writes:
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- >j1moody@darwin.cc.nd.edu (Humpty Dumpty) writes:
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- >>What if the human fetus developed on the outside of the mothers stomach,
- >>where everyone could see the eyes, ears, nose, etc. forming?
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- >It would be even that incredibly MORE difficult to be pregnant.
- >Also, the fetus would be vulnerable to the slightest bumps,
- >temperature changes, and infection, and it's not likely we'd
- >GET many newborns.
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- Not necessarily. Kangaroos do develop outside their mothers
- (mostly in the pouch, true, but still visible) starting
- at a stage where humans are still called embryos, rather than fetuses,
- and they've been around many millions of years longer than humans.
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- >>How tragic future generations will view our blindsided stupidity.
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- >Well, yours anyway.
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- Wrong. See above.
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- Peter Ny.
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