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Honestly as someone raised Mormon and conservative, but then when through a major life change when I found out it wasn’t true. I bet you my brain shows I’m liberal. But I bet it didn’t when I was younger. I think it’s the way the brain responds long term to it environment.

Well my brain read that as ice cream and then I was very disappointed.

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You're correct on the scale of millions of years, but when it comes to technologies that we can actually access within any kind of human horizon you are so, so, so wrong. We can turn our happy little spaceship into a sad, pathetic dust ball where almost every living creature is a sad, dirty human. Not because humans are intrinsically sad and dirty, but because without the other species the earth will be an extremely unpleasant place to live. But yeah, I understand that's too painful for you to think about, so go on and keep deluding yourself.

I exist and someone was nice enough to acknowledge it!

Things live and then they die and replaced by more things.

The hubris of man knows no bounds.

History! Read it and weep!

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Have you tried a French press?

Adding to this but also how you prepare your coffee. I’d suggest a French press if you were looking for something less acidic.

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We just need dna samples and we can make more in the future. There already doing this with the mammoths and using elephant dna to fill in blanks. It would be even better to get the dna before they go extinct.

The mammoth thing is interesting because the theory is that by reintroducing mammoths to the permafrost areas will help keep the carbon in the ground. According to what I read by the mammoths eating vegetation will help the ground stay cooler some how.

I think if they where to bring back a extinct species and it resulted in new medicine or tech people would be much more concerned about extinct species. Im not super concerned about animals going extinct. I feel it creates opportunity's for new species to emerge and become dominant.

As a Marine, I'd like to say that we really do hate mud.

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Stuff like this is why it makes me so sad when I think about all the species we are losing right now. They hold the keys to so many technologies if we would just stop destroying and study them instead.