Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> 
>> It's kind of hard to say how smart the floaty things are that shoot 
>> yellow balls at you. The headcrabs are smart enough to do brain 
>> surgery on you. ;-)
> 
> That doesn't require intelligence, only Intelligent Design - er, I mean, 
> Evolution. ;-)

Right. I didn't say it does. Only that it's hard to tell whether they're 
intelligent or not. Lamar seems to show that the headcrabs are at least 
marginally intelligent.

> Many other real-world parasites perform slightly scary feats of surgury 
> and genetic engineering to complete their lifecycle...

And then there's the retrovirus. And the retrovirus that attacks other 
retroviruses. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.

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