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Old 08-03-2012, 12:53 PM
 
Location: Manhattan
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Extinction scenarios exist: global nuclear annihilation or global accidental pandemic; besides natural ones: asteroid impact and large scale volcanism

If the human race except for 2 individuals is destroyed and earth is knocked back stone age conditions by a catastrophic global event.

Which one stands a chance to save the human species and repopulate the earth:

1-gay marriage couple consisting of 2 men

2-gay marriage couple consisting of 2 women

3-heterosexual marriage couple consisting of a man and a women
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:03 PM
 
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What if you got a gay guy and a gay woman left? Will they be smart enought to take one for the team? Does it really matter if everybody is dead but two people anyway? What if tigers are the only other things left. I think the tigers won't care about the human race and have one last dinner.
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:06 PM
 
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3-heterosexual marriage couple consisting of a man and a women
We'd be doomed anyway, the next generations would die out through incest related genetic diseases.
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:10 PM
 
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If the human race except for 2 individuals is destroyed ...which one stands a chance to save the human species and repopulate the earth:

1-gay marriage couple consisting of 2 men

2-gay marriage couple consisting of 2 women

3-heterosexual marriage couple consisting of a man and a women
Well if I can remember 4th grade biology, if the only two humans left on the planet are two men or two women then questions 1 and 2 are moot points to begin with.
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:47 PM
 
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Extinction scenarios exist: global nuclear annihilation or global accidental pandemic; besides natural ones: asteroid impact and large scale volcanism

If the human race except for 2 individuals is destroyed and earth is knocked back stone age conditions by a catastrophic global event.

Which one stands a chance to save the human species and repopulate the earth:

1-gay marriage couple consisting of 2 men

2-gay marriage couple consisting of 2 women

3-heterosexual marriage couple consisting of a man and a women
None of them. You need more than 2 of a species to rebuild from or the genetic intermingling is likely to cause sterility and fatal defects ending in the species extinction. 15-20 is the current thinking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/sc...pagewanted=all
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:49 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Oh, look. Another anti-gay thread. I sure didn't see that coming!

And BTW, if we assume that not all sperm banks were destroyed in the ELE, a couple consisting of two women could definitely carry on the human race.
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:50 PM
 
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It is impossible for two people to repopulate the earth.
Look into minimum viable population.

Minimum viable population size

Estimates run from 500- 50,000 people are needed to successfully repopulate the earth. This allows for natural deaths, natural disasters, genetic mutations, infertility etc.
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:52 PM
 
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Well if I can remember 4th grade biology, if the only two humans left on the planet are two men or two women then questions 1 and 2 are moot points to begin with.
Yeah, the OP is trying to make some sort of point about gays with all the finesse, insight and subtly of a 3 stooges movie.
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:53 PM
 
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Oh, look. Another anti-gay thread. I sure didn't see that coming!

And BTW, if we assume that not all sperm banks were destroyed in the ELE, a couple consisting of two women could definitely carry on the human race.
LOL. i know so random these days. Hopefully, the entire human race would be wipped out and everyone can go to their respected Gods and Heavens.
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:57 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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It is impossible for two people to repopulate the earth.
Look into minimum viable population.

Minimum viable population size

Estimates run from 500- 50,000 people are needed to successfully repopulate the earth. This allows for natural deaths, natural disasters, genetic mutations, infertility etc.
According to the Toba catastrophe theory, a supervolcano eruption in c. 70,000 B.C. led to a near extinction of the human race, with only 1000-10,000 "breeding pairs" left. Which, among other things, underscores the concept that we humans are all related to one another.
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