Alright. It's way past due. I'm adding a link to Yoshville.

It's a great site, and since the guy does his own code, I'm calling it a site instead of a weblog.

Anyway. It's in the links page now. I've got a post about something right here though, so hold your curiosity about yoshville for a second.

I've been thinking a lot about genetics and selection lately. Evolution. Particularly the evolution that created Homo Sapiens Sapiens, because it is such a unique and interesting animal.

It is, in its own collective and recorded existence (which it calls history) an absolutely unique animal. Personally, in all my years, I have not encountered an organism that behaves the way humans (as they call themselves) behave.

Now, there are certain animals and bacteria, and even more primitive forms of life such as RNA viruses and such, that possess behaviors humans routinely exhibit.

Several examples of this can be found. My favorite example of a simpler organism that shows something about human behavior is yeast.

What we call yeast is a name for a number of single-celled fungi that are, in reality, separated into several of their own subgroups. It is an organism that Homo Sapiens Sapiens utilize for an interesting ritual that will be explained later (see section 17, "Getting Tanked and Loving it"). Most cultivated yeast belongs to the genus Saccharomyces. The yeast called "Brewer's Yeast" is Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

There is a quality which all of the things Homo Sapiens sapiens call "yeast" share. One interesting thing about this same quality is that all Humans share that same quality.

This quality I speak of is a behavior, and will be my final point for the night. First we need to understand how a delightful substance called "Beer," is formed. Three things are absolutely required for beer: yeast, an oat or grain (This is what gives the beer flavor, anything you've got laying around will work though. I think. I'm getting sidetracked, but I think you'll want to make a sort of wine or more heavily distilled liquid if you don't have a grain or an oat or barley or something.), and something for the yeast to eat. They like sugar. Sucrose, anything. They just love sugar, and will eat the shit out of it day in and day out.

Yeast will eat whatever sugary substance you put them in a container with. They're only one cell in size, but they absolutely love to consume. They will eat and shit until there is no food left (when they go into hibernation) or they all choke on their own shit (and die).

Yeast shit is called Ethanol, and it has an intoxicating effect on humans. It loosens their control over themselves. Being restrained in a society such as they are, humans have an unhealthy amount of self-control. They like the relief yeast shit gives them.

Ethanol, or yeast shit if you prefer (I know I do), is poisonous to yeast. Every animal's shit is poisonous to it. The solution every animal has is that it is adapted into a system that keeps its population under control, because every animal will eat, reproduce, and shit until it kills itself (within the geographic location this portion of the species is located) unless controls are imposed upon it.

Humans have removed the controls set in place to keep them from exterminating themselves.

There are two options for Homo Sapiens sapiens now that they have recognized the exact size of the bottle they are trapped on. They must learn to limit themselves, or they must concoct an escape plan to flee their cage.

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The sad part, is that the second option only prolongs the extinction of the race, because unlimited growth and consumption has to end sometime. I think.

I've heard the universe is big, and sometimes, I really hope it is.

Einstein said the only neverending things were the universe and human stupidity, and he wasn't positive about the universe. Unless population growth is reduced or eliminated, we may learn (as a species, not individuals, this will happen after we are all dead) which is actually larger.

Until we know how big, and can travel it in periods of time shorter than our lifetimes, let's all take it easy on the consumption and propagation, OKAY?

If your genes are too fucking stellar to pass up, throw them in.

ONCE. That's all you get.

Maybe the universe truly is infinite. Once we know that, we can go hog wild. If the universe is infinite, and there are no other species like ourselves, then I don't see a problem with all the FUCKING that's going on right now.

However, if the universe is infinite, and human expansion continues unabated, contact with a sentient life-form alien to Earth is exponentially more likely than you might think. I'd be so audacious as to call it probable. If that ever happens, bad things will follow.

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Sapiens, we need to get our shit together.

Do it! Right now.

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I'm too tired to proofread this anymore. Nate.