From: Philip Rhoades <phil@...>
Date: 2009-04-18T14:55:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

People,


Phlip wrote:
>> And besides, who are we kidding thinking that the planet needs us?
>> It's been around for a long time before we were here and can do
>> without us fine**x, where x is a Bignum.
> 
> Who will move it to a safe orbit as the Sun goes off the Main Sequence?
> 
> Mother Nature works in mysterious ways. Including sometimes via Epic Fail. 


We won't have to wait for the Sun to do us in - we are causing our own 
mass extinction event (the first time one has been caused by an 
individual species as opposed to some other, external, physical 
phenomena) . .

Phil.
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