Posted by Susan47 on October 17, 2005, at 19:23:08
In reply to Re: This world does SUCk!, posted by TexasChic on October 14, 2005, at 20:20:14
So true.
What I find interesting is all range of possibilities we face on the road to self-destruction. I mean, will we have the chance to destroy ourselves or will an asteroid do it? Certainly we have no chance of surviving the way we currently are. Not without massive and rapid changes to our biology. Impossible to achieve, during the time we have left. It's too short. There simply isn't time for evolution to produce the required changes in our biology. If man survives beyond the next couple hundred years, we'll require special contained environments. The outside world will be hostile.
Yeah.
Like the bottom of the ocean is to us, now.
So, will it be an asteroid? Okay, if it is, that will produce climate changes that will eventually create a certain form of life, don't you think?
Whereas, if an asteroid doesn't hit the earth, but other life forms are allowed to evolve from the greenhouse damage, doesn't that present the possibility of an entirely different living world than the one an asteroid would create?
Whew. I think all the planets that sci-fi writers have up their sleeves are all possible future earths.
Or maybe this huge mass of material will suddenly implode from some atomic force we haven't yet discovered ... or disintegrate, is that possible, to just disintegrate into nothingness?
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