Friday, June 28, 2013

Going, going, gone

So I read this morning that the Western Black Rhino is now officially extinct; how depressing.

4 billion years in the making, an uninterrupted lineage going back to the earliest cyanobacteria all those trillions of mutations, adaptations an unimaginable length of time and a mountain of struggle all terminated prematurely because some monkeys in sandals believe that the lump of keratin on its head cures demonic possession.

2 comments:

Chairman Bill said...

Gram for gram it's more expensive than heroin, I believe. The stuff you get on the street has been cut with all manner of crap and you can't trust it's pure anymore.

Steve Borthwick said...

CB, at least there is some point to heroin, you made me think of a new slogan..

Superstition, just say NO!