(June 25, 2014 at 1:58 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Some folks think that magic comets brought all of the water to Earth. They can't imagine that the Earth makes its own water as well as oil and various gases.
“Magic“ comets? What, those big showbiz bastards made of dust, ice and hydrocarbons, that tend to crash into planets like Shoemaker-Levy 9 did and would have done even more so back when the Solar System had far more loose debris in unstable orbits than it does now? Yeah, no way could they have deposited anything here. It must have been magic.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'