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AlbertCat

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7. I think we're the only species that have been known to take more than give back.

Reply to musical_soul (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 6, 2013, 11:24 PM

Mar 2013

Oh please! The 1st microbial mats that produce free oxygen produced so much, they killed themselves because oxygen was poisonous to them. So they killed themselves with "pollution". Fortunately for us.....

Of course we do seem to overdo it ourselves and we're supposed to be more intelligent than microbial mats.

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