Letters to the Editor
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(LoL!!!) Very good, calcareous!
But calcareaus, dear, it will be something like our current integrated circuitry - which of course is embedded in rock thanks to Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby - just taken to the nth power. Just like pre-angiospermic plant life and a bunch of dead dinos provide us with our energy ("societal food?"), we may be doing much the same for the macro-organism under development. Who know?
And to the other commenter who brought up the subject of an asteroid smacking us: (heh,heh,heh) when my friends start moaning 'n groaning about global warming, I tell 'em: well it's better than an asteroid hitting us. At least we have a little time to do something about it, or at least mitigate the "damage", no? Hey, things are bad, but they can always be worse. And THAT is the last rule of thermodynamics, as far as I'm concerned.
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Humans are part of nature...
...for better or worse.
The idea that our various technologies have removed us from the "natural" flow of evolution is a hoot. Rather, our technologies represent the grandpappy of all extended phenotypes in Dawkins' terminology. Our food and shelter and clothing and technology bind us vastly more closely to evolutionary pressures than our peripatetic ancestors chasing down megafauna with atlatls.
Prior geologic boundaries are marked by biologically significant events. There is nothing remarkable about the habits of today's dominant lifeform similarly marking its temporal territory.
We're in for one heckuva punctuation point in evolution - whether or not it is followed by another tame equilibrium. (Actually "tame" is a far more aggressive term than anything emerging from the sans-human circle of life.)
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Hey, zit eye!!!
(LoL!!) Rob Seaman... Yes, yes, yes. Too fantastic, but oh, so true. Shall we call this self-induced sympatric speciation? Wreck the environment so we can entertain ourselves through physical transformation.
Ah, Neroism is in the air!