For humanity to arise, it meant 250 million years ago a huge cataclysm wiped out 95% of the existing species. Then 65 million years ago, a meteorite wiped out the dinosaurs, as well as over 50% of the animals and plants on Earth.
Only then did little furry animals begin to evolve into primates and then into humans.
And what's amazing is that it's only been the last 100,000 years where "Man" has proliferated and developed to create "civilization." A lucky period in time with no major meteor impact, volcanic caldera exploding or major climate change.
So what has Man accomplished in this short epoch of time?
Seems like everything we touch, we either maim or destroy. In the last couple of thousand years, we've disrupted ecological patterns and synergies that took the planet's ecosystem millions of years to develop. And now we threaten to eradicate forever a significant number of our fellow organisms simply by our unchecked reproduction; and our wanton disregard for the sanctity of other life forms.
But no matter -- we've got iPhones and iPods and Virtual Reality. Who needs the real thing anyway?
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Years ago, a friend of mine -- Larry -- and I were thinking: why is it that the aliens only seem to abduct hayseeds from Iowa? Why not someone who @ least is interested in what exists out beyond the Earth's exosphere?
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