Re: Shared game-data

Marshall Spight wrote:
> Alfredo Novoa wrote:

[..]

> But now for whatever reason ("teh interweb" I suppose) the
> two contintents have drifted together and these various
> species have come into contact. Mostly the result is not
> pretty. We have a thousand kinds of duck-billed platypus
> as a result (aka the 1000 awful O/R mapping tools on
> sourceforge, written by "some guy in a garage and his
> dog" as a coworker once remarked.)

Oi! Be careful here Marshall! The platypus is supremely adapted to its environment as evidenced by its existence today. Just because it is a monotreme doesn't lessen its place in the ecosystem.

Examples of other organisms that fit this bill that habituate my part of the globe would be Great Whites and the salt water croc. Both "prehistoric" but unchallenged "in" their environment.

That said the 1000 awful tools are evidence of natural selection at work. Whether only 999 or all 1000 go to the fossil record is yet to be determined although I suspect it might be the latter. :-)

Cheers, Frank. Received on Mon May 01 2006 - 00:55:37 CEST