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Originally Posted by Maverick1958
Knothead, I was referring to your tirade about mankind. Damn it is easy to be misunderstood here. By the way your argument sounds much like a couple of fleas arguing over who owns the dog. The earth will be here longer than you so quit worrying about it, you don't have ANY control over it anyway. If that is not enough for you, there is always Haiti....
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I actually knew that Mav.
What did happen to Mars, anyway? Our next door neighbor,
the Red Planet, apparently was once covered with flowing rivers.
What happened to them? Rivers suggest an atmosphere. Where is it?
Was Mars once a vital, thriving planet? If so, why does it now appear
dead? Could a lifeform on its surface have proliferated so abundantly
and so recklessly that it altered the planet’s atmosphere, thereby
knocking it off-kilter and destroying it? Is that what’s happening to
our own planet? Will it be our legacy in this solar system to leave
behind another lonely, dead rock to revolve around the sun? Or will
we simply destroy ourselves while the Earth, stronger than her
Martian brother, overcomes our influence and survives to flourish
another billion years — without us?
The answer, if I may wildly speculate, is neither — we will
destroy neither the Earth nor ourselves. Instead, we will learn to live
in a symbiotic relationship with our planet. To put it simply, the
human species has reached a fork in the road of its evolution. We can
continue to follow the way of disease-causing pathogens, or we can
chart a new course as dependent and respectful inhabitants on this
galactic speck of dust we call Earth.
Joseph Jenkins