Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Gaia Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:41:15 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net 3iPf506iNgjSf9JQGbGTIgY9X1wN75vqrz+VsoPwFq95bc4t21 X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:LM5zZLzODPZNHCxzlxcfCkXlbBQ= sha256:2T6ZbJJqlR5bCFo29OFtXmFup+P/RjbY3+xCOu0U0qY= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Bytes: 1378 In article , Joy Beeson wrote: > The good news: Gaia is real, and she can take care of > herself. There will be life on Earth until the sun > swallows it. > > The bad news: Gaia regarded the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) > Extinction Event the way we regard a mild case of sunburn. Would that make the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event a 2nd degree sunburn? -- "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement." Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ------------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com