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[Mendalla]

Funny thing is, there was a human species that lasted longer than a million years. Current evidence suggests that homo erectus lasted for c. 2.5 million years, though towards the end, it was mostly a relic population in East Asia.

 

[ninj]

Maybe the humanity's current divisions will resolve themselves to Eloi and Morlocks before extinction.

 

[Delightful Life]

Maybe the humanity's current divisions will resolve themselves to Eloi and Morlocks before extinction.

Hard to choose
Both have cool aspects

 

[Mendalla]

Given they are both technically human subspecies, could they be interfertile? So then you could have Eloks and Morloi.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Those sound like Star Wars characters.

 

[Mendalla]

Those sound like Star Wars characters.

They are the two "races" of human from H. G. Wells The Time Machine. So s-f but long long before Star Wars. The Eloi are a weak, kind of unintelligent group that lives on the surface of the future Earth, the Morlocks dwell underground and keep the machinery running. The dark dirty secret is that the Morlocks are cannibals and eat the Eloi. Wells was a socialist so there's a whole pile of socialist satire embedded in the Eloi-Morlock relationship.

 

[ninj]

Given they are both technically human subspecies, could they be interfertile? So then you could have Eloks and Morloi.

I'm thinking not voluntarily ....but ya never know.

 

[Luce NDs]

Such is the stress of real life given the Christin guideship ... who knows better?

Here is a quandry!

 

[Mendalla]

I'm thinking not voluntarily ....but ya never know.

Which, really, is one of the outstanding and probably unanswerable question about interspecies human hookups in general. Sapiens-Neanderthal, Neanderthal-Denisovan, and so on. There's even DNA evidence of another, as yet unknown, human species getting in on the fun. Maybe Heidelbergensis, Naledi or Erectus, since we don't have genomes for those to check against.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

They are the two "races" of human from H. G. Wells The Time Machine. So s-f but long long before Star Wars. The Eloi are a weak, kind of unintelligent group that lives on the surface of the future Earth, the Morlocks dwell underground and keep the machinery running. The dark dirty secret is that the Morlocks are cannibals and eat the Eloi. Wells was a socialist so there's a whole pile of socialist satire embedded in the Eloi-Morlock relationship.

I remember the book, not the names.

 

[ninj]

And now for something completely different...

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

And now for something completely different...

Is that a hairless dog that keeps getting swatted away by the fat grey fluff, or is it a cat?

 

[ninj]

Is that a hairless dog that keeps getting swatted away by the fat grey fluff, or is it a cat?

I think it looks like a hairless cat. They need to wear pyjamas all the time because they get cold. I wish they weren't bred like that.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I think it looks like a hairless cat. They need to wear pyjamas all the time because they get cold. I wish they weren't bred like that.

I was looking at it on a tiny screen view - hard to see. It has long legs and big ears and a bit of a pointy face. And I’ve seen a few hairless dogs wearing sweaters like that (rarely cats in sweaters so my brain went to the dogs). The way it was moving (and getting right up in the way), I thought it might be a dog but some cats are a bit dog-like that way. Probably right, it’s a cat (also seeing as it’s in the cat train vid). Poor odd thing - nobody wants to let it in.

 

[ninj]

It's a tossup between 2and 6.