In the Peachtree Plaza. I know a kid died, but one kid with parents who didn't mind him in what, 40 years of operation, and it gets shut down?

One of my kids favorite places to go for lunch when they are in town. Another example of why we can't have nice things I guess.

That is all it takes. Imagine the liability if some other person got killed after the first?

"Even after little Timmy got killed, they still operated that spinning death wheel restaurant . . . "

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Originally posted by jhe888:
That is all it takes. Imagine the liability if some other person got killed after the first?

"Even after little Timmy got killed, they still operated that spinning death wheel restaurant . . . "

If it's even insurable, I imagine a staggering premium for a restaurant that the structural design has already killed one kids. Restaurants are already making a living off a thin margin with a normal insurance premium.

My wife and I used to go there for dinner.
But have been since the "accident".

I mean holy bat wheels, the thing was in use when I was in college in 1986, and even after many drinks never mushed my head between two objects there.

I guess when they start sandblasting Stone Mountain only one group will have to watch it

There used to be a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale Florida, by the inter coastal, that had a revolving restaurant on the top floor although I can't remember the name. It was a very cool setting.

This is why we can't have nice things...Why was the little boy away from his parents and not at the table? No one takes responsibility for themselves.

Food wasn't all that great for the money, only reason to go was the revolving scenery below. Won't be back.

I'm kind of a sciencey, nerd type, and i've many times pondered the long term effects of our current trend in eliminating darwinian natural selection.

For a few billion years, the fact the certain behaviors / traits will reduce or increase the probability of producing offspring, has resulted in continuous adaptation to earths ever changing conditions.

In all that time, countless species have diverged from other species, taken countless paths of least resistance, resulting in even more species.

A technological species has emerged exactly once, out of countless possible attempts.

It appears to me, that a technological species necessarily develops the ability to eliminate natural selection long before they develop the ability do things like deflect asteroids.

It seems that we may have eliminated natural selection, ensuring that our intelligence won't likely develop further. To the contrary, it'll likely decline severely in the next few mellenia.

It could be that this is one of the answers to the 'great filter' theory, in the Fermi Paradox. A speceis necessarily develops the ability to eleminates natural selection, insuring an upper limit to technological development long before they develop the ability to defend from bolide strikes or to colonize space / other planets.

If this is the case, the emergence of technological species would only ever last from its emergence, until the next extinction causing event. This upper limit, never allowing a species to go much further than our current technological state.

If we keep at it, we can halt our development right here, and keep it here until the next big asteroid comes along.

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I'm kind of a sciencey, nerd type, and i've many times pondered the long term effects of our current trend in eliminating darwinian natural selection.

Idiocracy

Modern medicine interferes with natural selection also.

It certainly does.

I'm not at all pondering the right or wrong of any of it. Just curious as to the long term effects.

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:
Modern medicine interferes with natural selection also.

I took it as a given that modern medicine falls within the realm of technology in this discussion.