Sujet : Re: Gaia
De : garym (at) *nospam* mcgath.com (Gary McGath)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.fandomDate : 26. Apr 2025, 21:47:51
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On 4/26/25 1:05 PM, Don_from_AZ wrote:
Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> writes:
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.
See also Larry Niven's "The Hole Man." In that story it's Mars which is slowly turned into Swiss cheese.
-- Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com
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