Re: Earth after people

Gene Ward Smith <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>philospher77@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote in news:50oap39l9a8etgdtgbvikvqi66steuaq04@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> My dad grew up with range cattle... beef cattle that were allowed to
>> roam in Kansas, and only rounded up a couple times a year for
>> branding, shipping off to slaughter, etc.  As he put it, the fact that
>> they are herbivores does NOT mean that they are friendly!
>
>Larry Niven spent time in Kansas, and he seems to think that herbivores
are 
>cowardly, cowardly custards. I've wondered what gave him that idea.

Or that the ones that got a culture and socialized would be, though even
those discovered at one point that they had some interestingly-adapted
reflexes...

Dave "triangulation LOCKED" DeLaney
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