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To: PiMac who wrote (33246)	3/24/1999 3:13:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I've noticed something about accomplishment in our age, which may or may not be valid and is certainly not backed up by anything resembling analysis. In athletics, in science, in intellectual pursuits, it seems that the few who specialize are pushing the envelope farther and farther, while the average sags. There is no doubt that the performance of American olympic athletes has improved immeasurably in the last 40 years, but has the physical fitness of the average American kept pace? The few who study astronomy make magnificent discoveries, but the average American is more concerned with astrology. And on, and on.... Is this real, or am I hallucinating?

To: PiMac who wrote (33246)	3/24/1999 3:17:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I've long thought about real improvements in human beings that are now within our grasp. I'd love us to have a few more nerve rich contractile orifices to pouches that were easily cleaned, could be use to store noncarbonated beverages or bill and coin and watch storage for the beach and were not connected to organs of reproduction or the alimentary canal. I look forward to giving and receiving "pouch." It is so messy and uncomfortable when swimming at a nude beach to have to store your car keys up your rectum (unless you have the foresight to use a really well-designed key case). It would also be neat to have a high-pressure swim bladder built in for long underwater dives. About 3000 psi would be nice. I want a 2-way radio in my mastoid process, and a digital microcamera in my sinus (with a tiny lense peeking through my eyebrow. Some of this stuff will have to surgical, but I am confident that gene transplantation will do the job. I want one of those beautiful scallop eyes as living jewellery -- a whole new area for development.