[CH] Extinctions as a way of life
George A. Starkey (gas@kdlegal.com)
Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:15:30 -0500
Apparently chiles do better under hotter, drier conditions. They'll
survive. We won't. Then the earth will get on with the business of being
an ordinary planet around a smallish yellow star for the next few
billion years. It will evolve new species to fill whatever niches this
current extinction cycle opens. And they'll die off, as species have
done since the first prokaryotic (sp) life forms wallowed in the
primordial slime.
Yes, pollution of one's environment is stupid. We are the Yeast of the
earth. Yeast don't care. They pollute their environment until it is
saturated with alcohol, and they die. Then we drink it. Perhaps that is
the fate of the earth, to have it's biomass converted into a pleasing
substance for some larger alien creatures? Everyone, drive all those
super SUVs!
It's Miller Time for Kang & Kodos.
I'm going to go start some chile seeds now. I'm doing my part for the
next dominant species of the planet, Habanero Gigantum Capsicum Rex.
--George