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Originally posted by SabrinaFair
Lord...how arrogant can one species be? When the Earth wants us gone, it'll kill us off. Simple as that. Why are we meddling?
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If you believe in earth-as-organism, then we are both her gamites and her brains.
Humanity is the first species she has produced that has the possibility of colonizing other planets and stars, allowing the Earth to reproduce.
If life is as common as it seems right now (
Methane on mars!), and intelligence keeps on showing up, eventually a planet-organism is going to generate a brain/gamite life form that will successfully reproduce. I hold that it hasn't happened yet, otherwise we'd be part of a larger organism, or have evidence from them, already.
Personally, I'd prefer it to be Gaia that wins that particular race.