Re: [SGII] Alien seed

[Doug Evans <devans@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Damn.  Even did a Google search to see if I was spelling it right.  Curse
>you, internet!  You've misled me for the last time!

Not to worry; I was absolutely certain it had two 'f's. Sadly, isn't it
fairly close to the old South African pejorative? It never occurred to me
it might be derived from the word for cockroach.

> Basically, the Kaffir get smarter when they are under stress.  They go
from
> being barely smarter than monkeys to being smarter than humans... if
there's
> sufficient stimulus.  And each time this process occurs, the "baseline"
> state gets a bit more intelligent.

I'm not sure they were 'smarter' than humans when stimulated, by the way.
While they did get somewhat more intelligent, I think it was mainly they
went from lethargic to very quickly reacting. Monkeys beat us that way
already. ;->=

The_Beast