Conspiracy, with a Beat!

[gridlore]

OK, discodj needs to have this before the next BayCon.

Alone

The theories of David Icke set to a dance beat. If you don't know Mr. Icke, he's one of those Ancient Astronaut/Golden Bloodline/Fifth Column loonies.

Comments

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Of course, pedigree collapse ensures that we're all pretty much related if you go back no further than about the 13th century looking for ancestors. It's a power of two thing: 2³⁰ is larger than the population of the Earth at the time, so 30 generations is sufficient -- two parents at a time -- to cross everyone with everyone else.

Odd. I mentioned yesterday that I'd never seen anything that crossed my interest in dance music with my interest in black ops stories. Now I get two in two days. A shame this one's lyrics are set to such Euro-technocheese :)

[kengr]

Actually, it doesn't work that way, because you are assuming that the gene pols back in the 13th century weren't mostly idsolated grouops with limited crossing.

What you *really* get is that the family tree starts getting a lot of cross-links when you get basck to the "mostly isolated grouo" period. The number of ancestors doesn't increasde and can even decrease.

The powers of 2 bit *assumes* that each generation ancestors *not* shared between branches.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

When have facts gotten in the way of a good conspiracy theory?