Saturday, May 04, 2013
Aw, don't mess with Darwin again
Though the mutation part of Darwin's idea is pretty much kaput, the selection part is still valid, and it's unwise to mess with it by preserving "endangered" species. Those varieties are supposed to die out, supposed to make room for better varieties.
Applies as well to humans.
Seattle police are trying to determine why a man climbed a 200-foot electrical tower where he apparently electrocuted himself on a 120,000-volt line. He landed on a platform at about the 150-foot level where the body was recovered by a fire department technical team after Seattle City Light turned off the electricity. City Light spokesman Peter Clarke says the man could have climbed up the metal lattice of a tower leg and the utility will be reviewing that to make it less easy.Make it less easy? Why, for fuck's sake? You've got a wonderfully efficient crackhead filter. It just saved society a whole lot of money, and probably prevented a few murders. Don't ruin it! ¶ 7:39 PM
