Hmmm so where was I..... Some day 3 billion years from now our galaxy is going to collide with the Andromeda galaxy and the super massive black holes at the center of the galaxies will start feeding again. For some reason it doesn't seem that far away to me when I think that earth is 4.5 billion years old. I wonder how much longer Homo sapiens will last... a few thousand years more perhaps? Certainly we won't be around to see the fireworks as the galaxies collide or our sun goes red giant and destroys the inner planets but I wonder what kind of life will be around. I think it's a bit arrogant of humans to think that they will wipe the Earth clean of all life. Something like 90 or 95% of all life die at the Permian/Triassic extinction... which lead to the rise of the dinosaurs in the triassic which subsequently went extinct (except for Aves) when 70% of all life went extinct... so life tends to rebound. Hell last I heard there are some kind of bacteria in the sulfurous hot springs of Yellowstone, and there are bacteria that lives and eats ROCKS. Hmm that reminds me there's a whole damn ecosystem at the bottom of the ocean independent of sun and the world above, all centered around underwater volcanoes along the mid-alantic ridge that use the highly toxic chemicals (to humans at least) in chemosynthesis instead of photosynthesis and it doesn't just suppose simple creatures but stuff like clams and lobsters. That reminds me... I was watching an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants where Mr Krabs got his 1 millionth dollar and he and Spongebob and Squidward all went clam fishing on a boat on an ocean.. under the ocean... and I remember thinking to myself, "OMG! That could totally happen.." I mean seriously there are lakes beneath the ocean... something about it's an extra briney solution heavier than the ocean salt water and it even has waves and it's own ecosystem around it, with all the lil critters surviving off methane that seeps out of the ocean floor there... I think in the gulf of mexico... which is EXACTLY why the gulf of mexico was one of the worst places for the meteor of 65 mya to strike , at that toxic acidic mud it kicked up causing acid rain. I remember that from a special long ago when they were first piecing together back when I was a kid.. the layer of iridium (sp?) around the world, hugely thick tsunami mud deposits taller than a man on the coast around the gulf... until finally they found the crater. Great stuff wish I could watch that again, the whole process of leading up to find this friggin huge crater. Ya know I heard recently someplace that the asteroid that hit Chicxalub (sp?) might of just be a piece of many ala ShoemakerLeviNine that hit Jupiter. I know there's a difference between metor and meteorite and stuff but I can remember anymore. I do know an Asteroid is all rock and a comet is mostly ice aaaand... I think a meteor can be either... I think. Hey look it's tu oh tu a.m. ......../dies
Unknown "Fifi Trixy bunny" Sparkling - 16 years, 3 months, 25 days ago

Tale hmmm? *scrawlscrawlscrawl with a pen carving into the monitor* Well.. Once upon a time I went for a walk in my backyard when a gnome popped up outta no where and asked me for breakfast. Well my scrambled eggs got their act together after loosing their cool in front of the french toast and meanwhile my Fruit Loops were off battling the evil Apple Jacks as the Cheerios remained an ever uninteresting shade of nuetral. Then the hikers came. Purple monkey dishwasher. The. End.
Unknown "Fifi Trixy bunny" Sparkling - 16 years, 8 months, 11 days ago