From: djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid   
      
   Gary McGath  writes:   
      
   > On 4/24/25 10:33 PM, 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.   
   >> The bad news:  Gaia regarded the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg)   
   >> Extinction Event the way we regard a mild case of sunburn.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I'm reminded of a George Carlin talk where he pointed out that "saving   
   > the Earth" is nonsense. Earth will survive anything we can do to   
   > it. We might not.   
      
   Well, perhaps not the Earth either. In David Brin's aptly named "Earth"   
   novel, scientists have created a micro black hole that gets loose and   
   starts orbiting within the Earth itself, slowly accreting   
   mass. Eventually the Earth will implode. It has been a long time since I   
   read the novel: I think they finally managed to save the planet, but   
   if some real-life supercollider manages to make a black hole, we might   
   not be so fortunate.   
   --   
   -Don_from_AZ-   
      
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