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Tweak says, "have you read homestuck?"

Cosima Niehaus doesn't talk about Clone Club (geekmonkey) wrote in valarnet,
@ 2019-04-11 15:36:00

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chase stein (talkback), cosima niehaus, martha jones, will gorski

Scientists have discovered a completely new species related to humans. I'm positively fascinated by this discovery. Analysis of the bone fragments they've found shows a relation to Australopithecus, more widely known as Lucy, as well as close relations to various Homo species, including Homo Sapiens. They've called this species Homo luzonensis, but as they haven't been able to extract DNA from the fossils they've found, they don't know where in the chain of evolution these relatives of ours fall.

I just really wish I could be in that lab right now. To study another close relative of ours that we previously didn't know existed? That's like a dream come true right there for me.

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	greyhoundsix 2019-04-16 02:48 am UTC (link)
	Oh that's extremely fascinating. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	geekmonkey 2019-04-18 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	I know, right? And it's a slightly unexpected place to make such a discovery. I just wish that they were able to get some DNA to determine where in the chain of evolution they belong. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greyhoundsix 2019-04-20 02:59 am UTC (link)
	I wonder if there are more remains somewhere else. I mean, if there's these pieces there must be more somewhere, right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	geekmonkey 2019-04-24 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	There most likely are more remains, it just sort of needs to be luck of the draw by scientists to search in the right spot to find them. I mean, they're finding all sorts of extinct species in the tundra of Siberia right now, and finding amazing specimens of them. Who knows what remains of our own species and close relatives are yet to be discovered! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greyhoundsix 2019-04-27 03:58 am UTC (link)
	Hopefully they'll find more remains and get more information on all of this during our lifetime. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	geekmonkey 2019-04-30 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	That would definitely be awesome to see! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	officerstrange 2019-04-16 02:44 pm UTC (link)
	Just how many human species are there? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	geekmonkey 2019-04-18 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	There are eight, including this new one! Of course, we are the only surviving member of the Homo genus. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	officerstrange 2019-04-21 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	Have you ever heard of a homo sensorium? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	geekmonkey 2019-04-24 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	No, can't say that I have. Why? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	officerstrange 2019-04-29 05:04 am UTC (link)
	No real reason. It's just something I heard of from my dreams. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	geekmonkey 2019-04-30 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	Ah. Judging by the name, it would seem as though it's another species related to humans. But not one that I've come across in this life. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	officerstrange 2019-05-02 08:54 pm UTC (link)
	In my dreams, they live secretly among humans. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	geekmonkey 2019-05-02 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	That's highly interesting. Are you one of them or do you simply know about them? I mean, you don't have to tell me since it's like pretty personal. I'm just way too curious for my own good sometimes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private officerstrange 2019-05-02 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	I am one of them. There's a government organization in the dreams that's trying to hunt us down, so in the dreams we need to stay hidden. I don't think they're here though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private geekmonkey 2019-05-02 11:15 pm UTC (link)
	I hope that they aren't here. Though I can relate to the being hunted thing. I'm a human clone, one of many, in my Dreams. The organization that created my sisters and I didn't like how we had minds of our own and deviated from their initial plans for us. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Private officerstrange 2019-05-03 01:55 am UTC (link)
	What, so they thought just because you were clones, you wouldn't think for yourselves? That's not very smart of them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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geekmonkey
2019-05-03 03:54 am UTC (link)

No, it was more like we ruined their experiment? At least for starters. They had this whole apparent nature vs nurture thing going. They wanted to know if people with identical genetics raised in completely different environments would be completely different individuals or if we'd have things in common. But some of us became self-aware and were fighting back. Long story short, they decided that we were obsolete and were trying to eliminate us since we were causing too much trouble for them.

It's a really complicated story, but my Dreams definitely have a heavy sci-fi nightmare vibe at times.

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	Private officerstrange 2019-05-05 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	That sounds like it would have gotten them in all sorts of trouble with an ethics community somewhere if they'd been found out. The experiment in general, though especially the eliminating the subjects once they started doing things they didn't like. I'm sorry you have to dream all of that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychicraptor 2019-04-19 01:34 am UTC (link)
	Where do they keep finding these? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	geekmonkey 2019-04-24 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	These particular remains were found on an island in the Philippines. Islands tend to harbor a lot of remains like this that go undiscovered due to islands typically being remote and hard to transport an entire excavation team to without knowing there was enough potential for something to be found to make it worthwhile. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychicraptor 2019-04-27 01:19 am UTC (link)
	So are they going to send a team now? To see what else is there? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	geekmonkey 2019-04-30 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	They just might! I can't be sure since the article didn't say either way, but given what they found it stands to reason they'll go back and look more. (Reply to this) (Parent)