Who are we? Part 2
By: Seeker
It seems that if we look at ALL the information from history, we have mystery indeed. On the one hand we have the Darwinian notion that systems start primitive and evolve towards more order and sophistication. On the other we have some strange observations and physical evidence that seems to contradict the idea of a steady progression through our history.
But it turns out, if you really look at evolution, it isn’t all a nice steady forward progress through time. There have been, fairly regularly, massive events known as ELE’s – Extinction-Level Events, where Life has suffered major setbacks and had to recover from almost being wiped from the planet.
We face one now – Yellowstone is past due to go off. For those who don’t know, Yellowstone National Park is not just a pretty place of hot springs and geysers – sitting under the Park is a massive caldera, a volcano that has exploded regularly in the past, about every 600,000+ years, starting 2.1 million years ago. Three times it’s gone off – and the last time was about 630,000 years back.
Now this is not a normal volcano; Yellowstone is approximately seventy kilometers across! That’s the size of the actual mouth of the volcano. When it blows, Earth as we know it will cease to exist – it is unlikely that more than a handful of people will survive the ensuing decades as Earth slowly comes back from the effects of the colossal blast.
One wonders what sort of stories will be told of our ‘Golden Age’ by the survivors of Yellowstone? How will they talk about their memories of planes and cars, of how we went to the moon, of TV and the Internet?
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