bumble_beer

Hey Elijah, you never seem to age. Are you scared something like this can happen?

http://imgur.com/FppM2tE

A few years ago there was an accident on Helios 522 flight. The cabin did not pressurise following maintenance on a defective door. They took off at 9.07 and already at 9.30 they did not answer the tower. Considering they also had to climb up I would say 20 minutes are apparently enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

What shocks me of this story is the fact that the flight attendant was training as a pilot, but on a different kind of airplanes. The panic and frustration while slowly and consciously dying must have been terrifying.

Intelligence is a great tool evolution has favoured over brute force and aggression.

We are able to have long and successful unions with partners that are reliable, privilege social collaboration and limit what people often call "animal instincts".

Yet we would throw our partners in a pool of acid at the sight of a beautiful, attractive, possibly slutty fellow human being. (Well, ok, at least we give it a quick thought...)

Nature suggests Stephen Hawking and Marie Curie, our guts will always go for Jennifer Lawrence and Keanu Reeves (I know they are intelligent, but you get the gist).

1) Is this a defense mechanism to avoid evolving into super-smart but super-weak creatures? Or would there be a moment in which intellectual abilities will be recognised as the key to our future also by our "animal instincts" and therefore scientists and engineers will be the real hotties?

2) Unidan, given the size of your karma, would you say you have already jumped on a new evolutionary level, homo karmiensis, where even a scientist is sexy and popular?