Got my DNA results today: My distant relatives included Jimmy Buffet, Warren Buffet and Leon Trotsky. Also it says I have 2.9% Neanderthal DNA. (Wife ain't surprised, but I thought it would be more like 80% as I feel primitive most of the time: Prefer to sit down and drink beer, scratch myself and when ready, chase down a woman, ugh..) Also a database showed a bunch of my distant relatives from Scandinavia have emigrated to the US and 3 of them living in Florida. Small world, big family..
Not really: Signed up for the DNA thingy to find out what awful disease I will die from The ancestry results was a bonus.
So, you believe all those other people also got dna tested ??, are you interested in a big bridge in San Fran that my distant Irish relatives left me 5 yrs ago, really inexpensive to the right buyer ?? bids close in 4 hrs, highest so far 5K
Yeah, the folks in the data base got DNA tested. Most folks did not. I only had 510 matches to my DNA, 1000s more on the family tree. You go for the bridge Einstein, I will stick with science. The reason OJ Simpson walked out of the court room after his criminal trial in 1995 was that the jury was too stupid to understand DNA and the fact there was only one in 5 Billion people that had the exact DNA found on the gloves and the blood left on the scene. OJ played golf for a few years thanks to folks with your attitude.
I guess you were in the the jury room. If it don't fit. you must acquit.....that's what happened...Marsha and Darden screwed up.
100% the screwed up on many occasions. Smart attorneys beat dumb ones. I can make any glove you ever want to try on me not fit. It's so simple. The other thing was They blew it before that with Mark Fuhrman. You have to investigate and test your key witness. They should have known his weakness. But then when F Lee Bailey asked the one simple question to Fuhrman, "Have you used the n word to describe black people in the last 10 years?" So obviousl Bailey has prove and will bring it out to contradict his testimony. And the specificity of 10 years. That's when you pull Fuhrman aside, rake him over the goats. Put him back on the stand and have him refute his earlier testimony talking about the role he played for the screenwriter using the word many times. So they destroyed their key witness by allowing him to lie on the stand. Destroyed the glove with stupid theatrics that backfired. Now this was on top of the evidence they chose not to use. You just had one side of skilled lawyers and one of bumbling idiots. Now a trivia oddity. Domino's pizza received a ton of pizza orders in the fifteen minutes before 1:00 PM, when the verdict was to be announced. But from 1 pm to 1:05 pm they did not receive a single order in the entire country.
Are there any others here like us who don't have any desire to know our ancestors or to investigate our DNA or anything else related? We didn't like our parents and they are dead and it gives a nice clear break. Today it all seems like another life and we don't want to go back to any part of the old one. Just wondering if it hits any others the same way. Or if most here would like to do genealogy and DNA and learn all they can. As adults we adopted new parents and have new families. We chose much better than we were given initially.
No. Ancestors enjoyed boating. So do I. Okay, so one, J P Jones, enjoying playing with cannons on his.
DNA decoding can be useful to warn you of risk factors and diseases coming your way even if you hate your ancestors. With my luck the FDA put a temporary ban on medical analyses and advice based on DNA just after I signed up for my DNA de-coding. Hopefully it will be fought in court and I sure as hell don't need the fu..en government to interfere with my DNA results. What I got in the meantime is all the ancestor stuff and where I "came from". (Yeah, I know my recent past, but the DNA stuff showed my family tree 500 years ago) I struck me as fascinating but we all are different and if somebody does NOT want to know anything about their past or the ancestors, no big deal: Live and let live.
Yup, here is a blurb from Forensic Biology: Forensic Biology Articles DNA Profiling "The Blood and DNA Evidence in the O.J. Simpson Trial" If the jury had understood how powerful the DNA evidence was, they would have voted differently. Or maybe not..
