![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The cave episode, and holy shit! Excuse the language, but the things that live underground ... I mean, a 100ft mound of bat-guano, full of cockroaches ... I'm gonna have nightmares! Not to mention the giant yellow-and-blue centipedes.
But there were some truly gorgeous things, too. And it never ever fails to stun me, the places life thrives. I mean, angel fish clinging with velcro-fins to subterranean waterfalls, eyeless albino salamanders that go months without food, bacteria colonies that survive on chemical reactions with flowing sulphuric acid, and even, in a gypsum cave that has never seen either light or water, that was formed by acid, that contains no food whatsoever, there are bacteria that live by eating the rock itself!
I mean, you hear people moaning about nuclear holocaust, and polution, and how they'll eventually destroy all life on this planet ... and while I agree on many levels, and definitely it would destroy a significant portion of life as we know it, we live on a planet that has bacteria that eat rocks. However terribly, frighteningly good at destroying things humans are, seeing things like that makes me think that Mother Nature might be just that little bit better at making things live.
I never thought watching glowing bugs would give me that much hope. Heh.
But there were some truly gorgeous things, too. And it never ever fails to stun me, the places life thrives. I mean, angel fish clinging with velcro-fins to subterranean waterfalls, eyeless albino salamanders that go months without food, bacteria colonies that survive on chemical reactions with flowing sulphuric acid, and even, in a gypsum cave that has never seen either light or water, that was formed by acid, that contains no food whatsoever, there are bacteria that live by eating the rock itself!
I mean, you hear people moaning about nuclear holocaust, and polution, and how they'll eventually destroy all life on this planet ... and while I agree on many levels, and definitely it would destroy a significant portion of life as we know it, we live on a planet that has bacteria that eat rocks. However terribly, frighteningly good at destroying things humans are, seeing things like that makes me think that Mother Nature might be just that little bit better at making things live.
I never thought watching glowing bugs would give me that much hope. Heh.
