Re: Cryptobiotic Cyanobacteria

> Jason H. wrote: 
Alfred A. Aburto Jr. wrote:
...snip...

Civilizations drive themselves to extinction (we know that, just read
Jared Diamond's book "Collapse"), but the trouble is that next time we
may take the entire human species and life on the planet to extinction
... it won't be a comet or asteriod crashing into Earth that does it ...



This may be a good thing.  Look at the stupid humans.  Spreading into
every nook and cranny, stripping, building, burning, killing.  What
percentage of them is interested in sustaining the planet or observing
and exploring the universe?  What use are they to the universe other
than for their mass and as a catalyst for modifying the planet for the
arthropods to regain their former glory?

Welcome to Dark Ages II, the sad story of the failure of humans to
understand their environment and the universe.  Equal to the burning of
the great library at Alexandria, people ignore the lessons of science
as if there were no books; and then there is the theist war that has
been waged for hundreds of years, the theists killing and converting in
the name of their deities; and then there are the fief-barons
transforming the planet for consumption.  The Dark Ages never ended,
secular humanism was only a brief intermission in the history of our
undoing.

Most of us are not smart enough to know that we are dumb-asses, and
it's really a shame that our individual efforts to change things for
the better are like a boyscout cleaning litter from the shoulder of a
highway. 

Jason H.


Still, I'm proud of the boyscouts and many other groups, even convicts, who volunteer to keep the roadsides clean all over the nation. The situation is not hopeless as long as some people keep caring ...

So I think we better figure out at least how to get a _independent_ colony established on the Moon. They'll watch as the Earth Venusforms .... their history hopefully will record the entire sad sequence of events ... and hopefully, they will not repeat the same mistake as they move further out into the Solar System ... :-)
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