re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We survived the Cold War…there were plenty of times when it could have really gone pear-shaped, or rather mushroom-shaped.

I had thought that avoiding nuclear war was the milestone we needed to meet the alienas. But now I think it is dealing with our byproducts. That is something every animal must deal with, even intelligent ones. I have hope. We make it through so many things in the past. But it will be a very different world.

I think that becoming a space-faring civilization will help us let Earth heal itself. We can do it but its complexity will have to be dealt with.