From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   > Robert Woodward  wrote:   
   >> Joy Beeson  wrote:   
   >>> The good news:  Gaia is real, and she can take care of herself.   
   >>> There will be life on Earth until the sun swallows it.   
      
   But if people are extinct, life won't survive after the sun swallows   
   the Earth.  People can move life elsewhere, or can move the whole   
   Earth.  It's unlikely that another intelligent species will evolve.   
      
   >>> The bad news:  Gaia regarded the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg)   
   >>> Extinction Event the way we regard a mild case of sunburn.   
      
   >> Would that make the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event a 2nd degree   
   >> sunburn?   
      
   The fact that neither the trilobites or the dinosaurs were able to   
   avoid their doom is strong evidence that without us, whatever comes   
   next will also be doomed.   
      
   > I find watching the series "Life After People" oddly reassuring.   
      
   I'll admit that the end of our species wouldn't be all bad, since it   
   would include Republicans, Democrats, police, prosecutors, free-lance   
   criminals, and people who stuff this newsgroup with endless discussion   
   of Dr. Who.   
      
   Re "Life After People," never mind when the last artificial light will   
   go out, what I want to know is when the last automated scam phone call   
   will take place.   
   --   
   Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/   
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