dinosaurs

For a number of years, the great American state of Maine sold itself with the slogan “The Way Life Should Be”. It’s changed now, the tourism board’s using “It Must Be Maine”. I wonder if they’ve replaced the signs at the state border crossings yet.

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Extinction is inevitable. We can prolong it but we exist on a finite time line no matter how expansive. Happened to a billion species before us and it'll occur to a billion more after us. These species will have their hayedays; roaming the Earth (or whatever they might call it) consuming and devouring natural resources; perched at the top of the food chain.

We are doomed by our inability to transcend our own limitations. We're built to go only so far. Take Australopithecus Africanus for example; inhabited the earth roughly 3 - 1.6 million years ago, that's an awful long time. But in those million plus years they never managed to develop any tools more complex than a sharpened stone, it never even occured to them to put it on the end of a stick and make a spear. Were they dumb? Sure by our standards; they just weren't built to think that far ahead and eventually they died off and a species more adept to the enviorment sprung up and took charge.

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