Posted by John Hosking on 07/12/07 06:07

Ben C wrote:
> On 2007-07-11, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>> Ben C wrote:
>>> On 2007-07-11, Neredbojias <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> you may find it behooves you not to mess with your evolutionary superiors.
>>> Sharks don't really have evolutionary superiors. They are a well
>>> optimized design that has stayed basically the same for thousands of
>>> millions of years.
>> Thank you...thank you very much.
>
>
> They go back 450 million years according to Wikipedia, with "modern"
> sharks going back 100 million, which isn't all that old.

Yeah, for the first 350 million years, the sharks ran on steam. (And
they were analog, not digital.)

--
John
Pondering the value of the UIP: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

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