HEADS UP BOYS EVERYWHERE.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/07/16....ap/index.html


And girls too if it applies, but really you don't want to smell like seafood.

[Sean]

Just last night, the wife and I were talking about my belief that we as a species are probably on our way towards a self-made catastrophic event that'll knock the human population back down to a manageable size. There are so many of us right now that we've essentially infested the planet, and are choking off the ability of a huge portion of the rest of life on earth to simply survive. This crab story is yet another example. Anyway, I'm sure we'll wipe a bunch of ourselves out soon, and things'll balance out again.

Good luck to us all....

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Sean! why the pessimist mood today?

One of my fondest memories from the night Clinton won The Presidency involved a lady, who always gave me attitude for reasons unknown to me as to exactly why, response to my exclamation "WOW Clinton won" was "the country is going down".

???

[cacophony]

Originally Posted by Sean

Just last night, the wife and I were talking about my belief that we as a species are probably on our way towards a self-made catastrophic event that'll knock the human population back down to a manageable size. There are so many of us right now that we've essentially infested the planet, and are choking off the ability of a huge portion of the rest of life on earth to simply survive. This crab story is yet another example. Anyway, I'm sure we'll wipe a bunch of ourselves out soon, and things'll balance out again.

Good luck to us all....

the words every pregnant lady wants to hear.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

I think he was just playing on his wife for some sympathy lovin'.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ

Sean! why the pessimist mood today?

Oddly enough, I don't feel like it's a pessimistic thought. I think it'll be good for the planet. Obviously it'd be sucky for a hell of a lot of people, but the planet can't continue sustaining us as we are indefinitely, and I don't see us changing drastically as a species any time soon. How many billions of us are there now, and still growing? Filling up every nook and cranny of the planet, tearing down miles and miles of forests every year, poisoning our oceans, displacing entire species to build condos for the new people we're constantly making. And every time in earth's history that the scales tipped too far in any direction, there's been a natural, resulting shift of some kind that brings the scales back to a more balanced position. The scales are really off-kilter right now, so the shift is bound to happen eventually.

Sorry Cacophony.

Oh, and the reason the wife and I were talking about it was because we were watching a show on National Geographic that was talking about the amount of forested areas in Madagascar that have been plowed down to make more room for people. Something like an area the size of South Carolina every year. Oddly enough, I rarely get sympathy lovin' after apocalyptic conversations....

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by Sean

Oh, and the reason the wife and I were talking about it was because we were watching a show on National Geographic that was talking about the amount of forested areas in Madagascar that have been plowed down to make more room for people. Something like an area the size of South Carolina every year.

Oh come on, it wouldn't be there anymore if that was accurate.

Are you smoking pot? Oh wait, no, you'd probably be getting the sympathy bit then.

[Deckard]

Originally Posted by Sean

we as a species are probably on our way towards a self-made catastrophic event that'll knock the human population back down to a manageable size.

Yeah I've thought that, quite often. And there are so many possible ways it could be about to happen too - environmental, virus, nuclear, flu pandemic....

My vote is for all the world's males to turn gay.

(well, perhaps just half of them - the better looking half )

[dubman]

im looking forward to it.
just to shake things up.
make people matter again.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by dubman

im looking forward to it.
just to shake things up.
make people matter again.

See? That's the spirit!