Saturday, August 09, 2008

250 million years ago, 90 percent of the Earth's living things were wiped out.

65 million years ago, 75 percent of the Earth's livings were wiped out(including the dinosaurs).

x million years in the future, x percent of Earth's livings are wiped out.

x(x) million years after that, Earth is no more.


But before that, let's get back to x million years first.

If you compare us with the dinosaurs, we're much smaller in size but far more intelligent. Probably, evolution took a pseudo random shot at a different direction from the nucleus to make us the way we are now. The underlying basis is to allow us to prolong our existence on this Earth.

But if you look at the way we are now, something is missing. True we're intelligent. However, somehow, we seem to be destroying the things we depend on and our own kind slowly but surely. I'm theorising that maybe the intelligence we know now is not the answer to everlasting survival.

If for some reason we do annihilate ourselves, or a meteor shoots into Earth, the pseudo random process will grind it's wheels to generate a new set of characteristics the new living things will have. Probably better. Probably not good enough. Like how we are now.

Maybe, the next generation living things will possess some kind of super conscience or "intelligence" such that it would be unthinkable to persue interests which infringe on their own kind.

At the very moment, having an IQ of above 140 would make you farking smart. Maybe that would be the mentally handicapped of the future species. They might even have a new (x)q. Well whatever it means. It's just a symbol of representating something intangible.

Well for all we know, maybe brainy as we know it now is not even a contender in the future. Something we do not possess and thus do not understand might come into play.

As far as current human climates remains on this route, it does seem pretty bleak that we can combine in unison and tackle the problems which influence our very existence on Earth, and not just our standard of living.

We might have breakthroughs now and then. We might take pictures of different country's leaders shaking hands and smiling at the camera. But unless we have a change in attitude, the toll of time will wear it's course on mankind as we know it. Of course, as much as we recognise this problem, we just might not have the abilities to solve it. It's like if you pray with all your might that the dinosaurs might get smarter and evade extinction, it just wouldn't be possible. They are just, well, dinosaurs.

But there's something we do have in us. Hope. The double-edged sword which gives us spirit to survive, and the viciousness to bring down others.

Perhaps there would be a new creation in the future. Posihope and Negahope. To define more clearly what is needed by society and what is frowned upon. Like how you would say "thankyou" to someone who has done you a favour, it might just be instinctive in us to go the Posihope way.


Now on to x(x) million years from now. Despite the evolutions that might entertain Earth in the future, all would come to an end if we experienced a solar collision and we had the fortune of smashing into another planet. Or our sun engulfed and we, kaput. And the list goes on forever.

Well, nothing is forever. And we should not expect things to be. And so our frail minds can never truly find the greater meaning of why we do what we do.

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