[DeTomaso] Sad day for a Norwegian Pantera owner

[Rob Dumoulin]

No car content in the first part of the answer, but I tie it in on the
second.  I don't want to get into a creationist vs. evolutionist discussion
but in purely scientific terms, our features are determined by our genes and
there is a disputed 20K-ish that make up your individuality.  Add to it that
you are a splice of two different gene pools and that genes naturally mutate
and over the course of millions of years, you have what we have today.
 Genes do not adapt to environmental changes, but rather when mutations have
a particular advantage, they tend to propagate where genes that have a
disadvantage tend to not propagate. There are exceptions to that in that
some mutations span several genes and although one mutation poses a
disadvantage, another mutation may pose enough of an advantage to override
the disadvantage.  You can't consider changes per generation as significant,
but over the course of many many generations, natural selection does occur.

OK. In car terms. Features are tried by engineers and some actually make it
through the marketing department and become production options.  Others die
in the factory special vehicle departments or are aborted by evil people and
end up discarded in a scrap pile with no remorse.  As these features benefit
the car companies in revenue or safety compliance, the are deemed good and
find there ways into other cars.  For example, the headlight, air
conditioner, power steering, and the cup holder.  Features like exploding
gas tanks on Pintos are eventually killed along with unsuspecting consumers.
So, like evolution, the strongest survive.  Imagine how quickly the Pantera
would have faded from our community if in the mid 70, you could only get it
with the Mustang 2 4 cylinder.  Without some serious bioengineering (i.e.
engine swaps), it would have become a laughing stock.

There is always a connection between cars and science.

Island Rob
#1488

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Bill Lewis <lotus0005 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Has AnyOne ever figured out, if we all evolved from one place jillions of
> years ago, how did we end up with such diverse languages and alphabets?
>  And, as far as that goes, different skin colors and facial features?
>
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> > From: joernco at online.no
> > To: detomaso at realbig.com
> > Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:46:02 +0200
> > Subject: [DeTomaso] Sad day for a Norwegian Pantera owner
> >
> > Lost it at a track day event!
> >
> > http://www.fvn.no/lokalt/kristiansand/article763231.ece
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> > J.C
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