People, Phlip wrote: >> And besides, who are we kidding thinking that the planet needs us? >> It's been around for a long time before we were here and can do >> without us fine**x, where x is a Bignum. > > Who will move it to a safe orbit as the Sun goes off the Main Sequence? > > Mother Nature works in mysterious ways. Including sometimes via Epic Fail. We won't have to wait for the Sun to do us in - we are causing our own mass extinction event (the first time one has been caused by an individual species as opposed to some other, external, physical phenomena) . . Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil / pricom.com.au