Asteroids... [was: Unix [was: do...until wisdom needed...]

[Steven D. Majewski]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sandipan Gangopadhyay wrote:

> From: "Greg Ewing" <see at my.signature>
> > "Steven D. Majewski" wrote:
> > >
> > > As we range ever further off topic from Python, Andrew Dalke wrote:
> > >
> > > > a civilization on a planet where astrophysical
> > > > catastrophies were frequent - once every thousand years.
> > >
> > > an unstable star system, where
> > > everything hibernates through a 30 year winter so deep that the
> > > atmosphere condenses and rains out of the sky.
> ....
> > Getting back to asteroid resistance, it could (in fact,
> > would have to) evolve in an organism whose lifespan from
> > birth to reproduction was on the order of the time
> > between asteriod impacts.
> 
> Isnt that what we really are ? An organism that sheds almost all its cells
> after a life and reorganises its DNA a little bit through meiosis. And at
> each cataclysm, most of this DNA base is wiped out ... Only changes what we
> call reproduction (instead of the meiosis, the act of starting out from the
> survivor DNA base.)
> 

OK. So it's resolved: we are going to try to evolve asteroid resistance!
Anyone volunteer to write up a PEP ? 

-- sdm