Re: Gaia

Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> 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.
 

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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.
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-Don_from_AZ-