dan michaels  wrote:

> wilkins{at}wehi.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote in...
> > dan michaels  wrote:
> > 
> > > "Peter F"  wrote...
> > > 
> > > > ................
> > > > Furthermore, that those mutants would , it seems
likely, have to be
> > > > so profoundly passive in response to provokation of any
sort (e.g.
> > > > any utter deprivation of whatever remaining instinctive need that
> > > > their engineered genome would be programmed to
"phenotypically
> > > > express")  that they would therefore also not care
the slightest
> > > > about their (perhaps with such alterations associated) lack of
> > > > spleens, livers and gal-bladders.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Peter, you've just used an efficient sentence of only about 100 words,
> > > many valued at $64 or more, to describe an Eloi [cf Verne, The Time
> > > Machine]. In contrast, I've had to expend 1000s of words to try
> > > explain the same thing to Michael. You are much smarter than I am.
> > > 
> > Minor nit: H.G. Wells, not Jules Verne, and Morlocks, not Eloi:
> > http://www.bartleby.com/1000/5.html
> 
> 
> Yes, you are right. Rats to Emmett Brown, who is the Verne loving
> crazy guy with the 10 gigawatt flux capacitor in the Back to the
> Future movies.
> 
> However, the Morlocks were the nasties who lived underground, and
> occasionally came up surface to eat the placid Eloi. I don't think
> S.Hawking wants to GE humans into Morlocks.

Sorry; I misread you as saying that there would be GE'd humans who
didn't care about the efficiency of their anatomy because they'd be able
to acquire what they needed elsewhere (by eating those who had it). A
hasty reading...
-- 
John Wilkins
B'dies, Brutius
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