It doesn't matter what I believe. All that matters is that the
end of the world is imminent, and there is nothing the Atheists
can do to stop it, neither postpone it. And that makes me happy. :)

Armageddon Cometh,
Daniel Joseph Min

Humans Narrowly Escaped Extinction 70,000 Years Ago

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1357216/humans_narrowly_escaped_extinction_70000_years_ago/

Posted on: Thursday, 24 April 2008, 16:50 CDT

An extensive genetic study released Thursday said that humans may have
narrowly escaped extinction brought on by a drought some 70,000 years
ago, after which the entire population was reduced to small isolated
groups in Africa.

The report notes that a separate Stanford University study estimated the
number may have dwindled to as low as 2,000 before expanding again in
the early Stone Age.

"This study illustrates the extraordinary power of genetics to reveal
insights into some of the key events in our species' history," Spencer
Wells, National Geographic Society explorer in residence, said in a
statement, according to an Associated Press report.

"Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental
conditions, coming back from the brink to reunite and populate the
world. Truly an epic drama, written in our DNA."

Wells serves as director of the Genographic Project, which studies
anthropology using genetics. The initiative was launched three years ago.


Previous studies using mitochondrial DNA passed down through mothers had
traced modern humans to a single "mitochondrial Eve” who inhabited
Africa 200,000 years ago.

But the migrations of humans out of Africa to the rest of the world
appear to have started about 60,000 years ago, with little understood
about the time between Eve and that dispersal.

The new study examined mitochondrial DNA of South Africa’s Khoi and San
people, which seem to have diverged from other humans between 90,000 and
150,000 years ago.

The researchers concluded that humans had separated into small
populations prior to the Stone Age, when they came back together, grew
in number and began migrating to other areas of the world.

Between 135,000 and 90,000 years ago, areas of Eastern Africa
experienced a series of severe droughts. The researchers believe this
shift in climate may have played a role in the populations dividing into
small, isolated groups that developed independently of one another.

"Who would have thought that as recently as 70,000 years ago, extremes
of climate had reduced our population to such small numbers that we were
on the very edge of extinction," Paleontologist Meave Leakey, a
Genographic adviser told the Associated Press.

More than 6.6 billion people inhabit the globe today, according to the
U.S. Census Bureau.

The research was led by Doron Behar of Rambam Medical Center in Haifa,
Israel and Saharon Rosset of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown
Heights, New York. It was funded by the National Geographic Society,
IBM, the Waitt Family Foundation, the Seaver Family Foundation, Family
Tree DNA and Arizona Research Labs.

The study was published in the April 24 issue of American Journal of
Human Genetics.

That's a fact, Jack. And if it doesn't, you're going to die of
something else.

ah <splifingate@gmail.com> wrote:
Art Deco wrote:
greysky <greysky@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Just came back from a COSTCO today. I wanted to buy some rice. They are
limiting purchases of the grain to 40 pounds. This is the first time since
WW2 major distributors are rationing food in america. I have the feeling it
wont be the last. Of course, there isn't really a shortage - just panic
buying creating an artifical shortage, at least here in america. But, this
will not be true in coming years. There are real shortages coming around the
corner - in africa 70% of the wheat crop has allready failed due to a
fungus. This is a fungus that no wheat currently anywhere on the planet has
an immunity to. If the spores blow on the wind to the heartland we can be
looking forward to 70% of the wheat crop failing here in the USA, and if
that happens then the famine will be real and for the first time in over a
century american citizens may actually starve to death in the streets. Why
in the streets? Because millions of people will have been kicked out of
their homes as the depression we are just entering into gets some steam
behind it. Add to this major corn shortages as ethanol production diverts
the corn harvest to offset oil hitting $200 a barrel. Industrialists will
choose to feed their gas tanks instead of their children - there's more
money in it. Add to this all the major crop failures that will occure
because the Bee population becomes extinct and crops can't get pollenated,
and you have a perfect storm of dire emergencies all hitting at the same
time and overwhelming civilization. My predictions for the year 2012:

doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed, again.

1) It will be a federal offence punishable by the death penalty for stepping
on a Bee and killing it (I have said this before).
2) Gas will cost $25 a gallon and be diluted with a 50% solution of ethanol
and water.
3) Honey will be more valuable than gold, ounce per ounce.
4) In the highly populated cities and poor slum areas, the "Other white
meat" will be human flesh.
5) The economy will be under a war time footing as millions are killed in
food and gas riots all across the world.
6) Major chain stores and distributor warehouses like Walmart and Costco
will have starving people wandering isles full of HD TVs, Computers, Ipods,
and cell phones, but not have any food items at all.
7) The starving hordes will be driven insane by the knowledge their own past
actions caused most of the problems they currently face.
Strange, new diseases will sweep through the hungry and weak human
population at a speed that no doctor can fight them.
9) Starving & miserable people will target one ethnic population after
another as they seek someone to blame for their misfortunes.
10) Then, after 2012, things will *really* start to get bad....

Oh, I thought the Darla sockpuppets were going to arrive and rescue all
the saucerheads? What's up now?

Take my advice: Get your house in order. If you need to loose weight you
need to do it now. Don't postpone any medical proceedures. It may not be
safe to have a surgery in a year or two. Buy a few hundred gallons of honey
in sealed bulk cans and stick it up in the attic-this alone may save your
life, and it will last forever. Learn how to use a gun and a sword. Go up
into the attic and dig out that old hand cranked grain mill put up there by
great-grandma in the 1930's. Clean it up and make sure it works - it won't
do any good to finally get a 50 pound sack of wheat, but not be able to
grind it into flour...don't be like your stupid neighbor who has to grind
his wheat seed a handful at a time by putting it on the sidewalk and
dragging a brick over it.

"Jethro, load up tha' truck, we're movin'!"
"Oh-kay Uncle Jed!"

You know the funny thing about what's happening today? I clearly remember
Col. Ed Dames on the Art Bell show making these exact predictions - over ten
years ago. So far he's right on the money.

The fraudulent Major (not Col.) Head Games can't remote view the inside
of his eyelids, much less the future. He's pretty much 100% wrong.

Pretty much everyone's been wrong regarding prognostication.

Turdi, Gordie, SoiledLog, Kazoo, Alexa, Witless, Head Games...

Greysky

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