...a bitch when she wants to be
There are times when humanity attempts to discover new ways of destroying itself, and most of those times prove disturbingly effective. And just to remind us of how amateurish we really are, nature comes along and dryly remarks in her not so subtle way, "Anything you can do, I've been doing better for millennia." I've been watching the news reports and reading what I can in the papers about the enormous tsunami that hit southeast Asia. It's not pretty, especially the death toll, but it is very humbling and for me serves as a very stark reminder of how we can dominate the earth, but will never control it.
Equally disturbing is how this isn't even the largest tsunami on record either. Nature could still have dealt a blow that was worse. Much worse.
posted by Phillip at 9:49 AM
