----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Blakely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I say our benefit because even such cataclysmic "disasters" as the meteor > that hit just off the Yucatan 65 million years ago weren't necessarily bad. > Though disastrous to some species, it was an ultimate boon to others, like > mammals! We probably owe our existence as a species, at least in some part, > to this event. Puts our own existence into context, doesn't it... Jostein the ephemeral...