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Post by thebluelagoon on Dec 31, 2005 8:50:58 GMT
This is where you can ponder the beginnings of life etc. etc. I hope this is on the right board, but it seemed like chem. Maybe it's bio.oh well. I'll leave that to Stephi. It's actually really amazaing that anyone on the planet is alive. Because you have two parents, four grandparents, sixteen great-grandparents... (actually it's less than that but I'll explain that later.) The black death. If any one of your ancestors had karked it back then, there would be no you. No bubble. No Stephi. Same with the Spanish flu. Life is a lottery where only the winning tickets are visible!
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Post by StephiB on Dec 31, 2005 10:18:21 GMT
I like that last line. Doing your family tree is kind of scary and interesting. All the people on there (there was only my mum's side of the family) didn't seem to be my family but my mum's. I dread the time when I get that from my kids or grandkids. And I'm the one who decides whether to move threads. Unless bubble really wants to and asks nicely .
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Post by CRG on Dec 31, 2005 11:38:12 GMT
It's quite interesting researching family trees. My grandad has been tracing his relatives (and mine - on my dad's side) and there are some interesting people. (Many of them named George, because of the naming-your-son-after-yourself thing). One non-George was Tom, who wrote a diary, extracts of which we have (and this was the 1800s) and he was considered slightly insane.
Explain the great-granparents thing, TBL.
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Post by StephiB on Dec 31, 2005 13:53:35 GMT
Unsurprisingly enough, no-one in my family as far as I know was called George. Closest is Gustav.
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Post by CRG on Dec 31, 2005 16:23:40 GMT
In fact my dad is the first non-George in the firstborn line.
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Post by thebluelagoon on Dec 31, 2005 20:16:06 GMT
Ok. You have the ever-multiplying greats, don't you? But when you get way way back, to roman times, you greats are equal to about 4 times the worlds population at that time. So you can't have had that many. But if you hadn't, then you wouldn't be here, right? WRONG!! The solution is that at some point, in fact many, points in time, one of your greats married another one. So there is no one in this world who has a pure family and that isn't inborn in many ways.
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Post by CRG on Jan 1, 2006 11:40:47 GMT
Cool.
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Post by bubble on Jan 1, 2006 20:02:39 GMT
Yes. It is Stephis decision if it fits on anotjher board, and frankly I don't really kjnow, althoughn I probably would put it under biology, be cause it's about people more than chemicals. My family tree has not been traced.
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Post by StephiB on Jan 2, 2006 10:01:25 GMT
I think I'll move it.
And lo, it is done.
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Post by thebluelagoon on Jan 2, 2006 20:29:36 GMT
Thank you, oh great one.
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Post by StephiB on Jan 2, 2006 23:12:24 GMT
Ahh, yes. But not as great as bubble.
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Post by thebluelagoon on Jan 3, 2006 7:59:03 GMT
But bubble is the bubbleful one.
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Post by StephiB on Jan 3, 2006 10:03:12 GMT
And I am the [In]sane one. See? See?
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Post by CRG on Jan 3, 2006 11:00:35 GMT
D, D, E, E, F, F!!!
Sorry. Back to evolution. It's weird to think we're probably all related in some obscure way.
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Post by thebluelagoon on Jan 3, 2006 20:13:14 GMT
And we're all originally from africa.
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