Bag's Rants

Evolution is not history but is still going on.

I was reading this about 'Zombie Worms'. Thought I was going to discover that George Romero was not as far out as we hoped.

Anyway it was to do with marine worms, which wasn't as big a disappointment as you might think as I had a few in my marine fish tank and found them interesting. They are nice to look at although they don't do all that much beyond deploying feather like arms to collect food and, er, well that's it. They look pretty though.

My thoughts were more along the lines of this is what evolution is about. Everything changes and new species are created while old ones, those that can't adapt, are destroyed. Perhaps we should be creating giant museums of life that will go extinct in the wild instead of proposing we reduce our society to a handful of self dependent villages so we don't impact natures balance. It's funny with all the destruction by nature that is going on we still think we can control it and stop it's relentless advance. When we are a few villages and in the next ice age we will see most of the species we are worrying about wiped out and wish we had at least kept the method to keep ourselves warm before we succumb.

posted by Bag @ 10:30 am