From: TURTLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: godtalk        
Date & Time: 06/03/90 14:38:10
Message Number  5570

>This planet would be better off with[out] us around, or would the
>cockroaches and rats take over?????
 
Humanity won't last forever; eventually the world will in fact be free
of us, and will probably get along quite nicely. We may take a good deal
of the indigent life on this planet when we go, but that's no biggie;
mass extinction is nothing new (no land animal with a body mass of over
about 13 kg or so survived the dinosaurs...) We may also physically
destroy the planet itself, but that's unlikely, and in any event is
a risk any planet runs anyway...we may work out our differences and
get splattered into eternity by a rogue asteroid (just like in the video
game). No big deal; just wait around long enough and you'll get your
wish.
               --A fatalistic Turtle
Wait around long enough after that and you'll get to see the heat death
of the entire universe...