Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

::: bacteria and nukes should be able to finish off the Chtorr. 

You mean... the way we've been wiping out AIDS and antibiotic-resistant
diseases and preventing ocean algae blooms, and kudzu, and killer bees,
and so on and on, wimpy earth organisms that they are?  I think you may
have a great deal of unwarranted confidence in what technology can do.

And IIRC most of humanity was wiped out by disease.  To be faced
with literally hundreds of disease organisms using completely novel
mechanisms, and failing to beat them back, seems entirely plausible
to me.  At that point, you're trying to put *anything* back together,,
and you're faced with space-kudzu driving out native organisms, also
on hundreds of fronts.

Yes, any given infestation could be destroeyed with technology.
But *all* of them, *and* defend earth ecosystems on a worldwide scale
into the bargain?  Pfft.  You're way optimistic.

: Better to live on a world with some radioactivity issues than to be
: wiped out of existence. 

Sure.  But this "world with some radioactivity" would mostly have
Cthorran critters running around.  If you nuke the kudzu, then the roaches
and kudzu take over anyways.  I'm not sure why that point would strain
anybody's credulity.


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