RE: Life is not improbable.
April 9, 2014 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2014 at 11:40 am by Confused Ape.)
(April 8, 2014 at 11:15 pm)Napoléon Wrote: We are the smartest form of life ever to exist on this planet and it's took an awful long time of life existing for us to show up and even develop into a species that is doing anything other than rolling around in the dirt. Only in the past 4000 years or so has humanity started to monopolise the planet, yet life has existed for billions of years.
Is wrecking the planet we live on all that smart?
World Health Organisation -7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution
BBC News - Toxic Waste 'major global threat'
We're living in a time of mass extinctions, most of which are caused by human activity. It's possible that the end result will be humans becoming extinct as well. Meanwhile, cockroaches have been around for millions of years and are one of the most adaptable species on the planet. It's likely that they'll survive even if humans don't. If this happens it would mean that rolling around in the dirt is an evolutionary success while our big brains turned out to be an evolutionary failure.
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?
