What are your plans for old age?

[zorkan]

what is your definition of "evolution by natural selection," zorkan?

When it isn't artificial.

How about punctuated equilibrium to explain why mammals like us exist.

Leeches exist because of blood circulation in mammals.

Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladogenesis

[The Magic Pudding..]

An Internet says:
"Predatory leeches may feed on other invertebrates such as insect larvae, earthworms, snails, and other leeches, while parasitic leeches feed on the blood of fishes, birds, amphibians, and mammals."

[zorkan]

That was only my experience of them.
I have encountered leeches in walks in the jungle.
Not as yet in the UK, but I see there are 37 varieties.

https://www.wlgf.org/leeches.html

"Leeches are infamous for sucking blood from people and other mammals,"

[billy rubin]

what is your definition of "evolution by natural selection," zorkan?

When it isn't artificial.

yes. it has nothing to do with abiogenesis, unless you make some dawkins-style conceptual leaps. natural selection works only on pre-existing life.

[zorkan]

yes. it has nothing to do with abiogenesis, unless you make some dawkins-style conceptual leaps. natural selection works only on pre-existing life.

As in like the headline "survivors found drowned"?

Dawkins is a bit of a dickhead who likes to use his intellectual weight on the little people.
While natural selection creates rapid change on the smaller scale, catastrophic events will also lead to long term change.
Transitional species do exist but the fossil record is like a jigsaw puzzle with the majority of pieces missing.

 

[Icarus]

This guys plans for old age ????

 https://imgur.com/gallery/nope-DTjOUx4

[zorkan]

Yes but I'm in training to climb Olympus Mons then abseiling down.

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=abseiling+off+mars+olympus&qpvt=abseiling+off+mars+olympus&mid=41E0ACDCED03CD1BC6AC41E0ACDCED03CD1BC6AC&&FORM=VRDGAR

[billy rubin]

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listen.

i ride 60 year-old motorcycles at well over the ton, but i dont do this.

[Icarus]

Candidates for Darwin awards are not hard to find. As for Billy, Hmmmm......what the hell, I did some really risky stuff, even dumb ass stuff, on motorcycles. Billy gets a free pass from me.

[Dark Lightning]

I may have mentioned some of my motorcycle misadventures, but here's maybe a repeat. I used to ride stupid speeds on mountain roads, easily double the speed limit. I took a curve one time and hit a patch of sand (I think). It laid down and I slid off the road. When I started down an embankment about 30 feet above a small stream, I jumped off. As I was sliding down the hill on my face, I was wondering where my motorcycle was. Poor form, to be run over by one's own vehicle. But the left handlebar snagged the dirt, and the motorcycle stopped there. I climbed back up the hill, got it running and proceeded up the hill, at a shallow angle to the road. Some people I had recently passed stopped to help me up the hill. I rode it home with the left handlebar bent back. Hard to make left turns that way, but the clutch still worked.    Broke my glasses, destroyed the face bubble, and lost the license plate. There was also a dent in the fuel tank, and the left foot peg was tweaked . I went back to look for the plate the next day, but no luck. I put both feet on the center of the fork and pulled the handlebar into a semblance of the stock configuration. I drove it that way for awhile, but sold it before I joined the Navy, in '72.

[Tank]

Add to it one day at a time? And read good books.

[Asmodean]

Now that I'm officially over 40, my plans are back aches and grumpiness, increasing until it reaches a critical mass, collapsing into a singularity of pure evil intent, destroying the Uinverse.

What can I say, The Asmo aimeth higheth.

[billy rubin]

i intend to just die young.

[zorkan]

At 75 I spend an hour a day doing Yoga postures, Pilates moves, Chi Kung (Qigong), Neigong, Tai Chi.
Not all at once but a good session of one each day.

Yoga and Pilates are good for the flexibility of the body.
Chi Kung is good for circulation.
Tai Chi is good for the brain.
Neigong is good for healing.

[Vocaloldfart]

i intend to just die young.

I am too ordinary to die young and suffer from the cat killing condition.
At 72 I intend too be a vocaloldfart for the next 15 years.
 
There is too much going on in the world now, to miss out witnessing the approaching societal challenges.