When I joined the snack table at office yesterday evening the discussion was along the lines 'These Humans are Crazy'.

Millions of Indonesian Rain Forest Going Away A Year. American consumerism resulting in destruction of Amazon Forests. The bio-diversity in the oceans - 10 new species discovered a day - and how Frech Nuclear Tests and kutti-kutti oil spills everyday were destroying it. Sigh. If only human beings learnt only to live. Etcetra. Etcetra.

I get quite cynical about human beings too. Often. But that when they show needless cruelty or callous thoughtlessness. War and the (unnecessary) death of soldiers really puts me off sometimes. Iniquity also I don't like.

But Indonesian rain forests don't bother me too much. Someone IS consuming them, are they not? (someone please advise me on the right question tag on this one - Is he not? Is he/she not?). If you eat good food, wipe your hands on tissue paper, and drive a car/bike you have no right to crib about someone cutting those rain forests down.

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Anyways, that's beside the present point. So when the talk went to the oceans, Ankit started talk about the new trans-atlantic under sea rail road they were planning. From there the discussion took a differnt route. How would they do it? They can't put it too low because of the pressure. Would it really be faster than Air Flight? Amazing. The possibility of a terrorist attack and how that had already been taken into account. Hope it happens soon so we can, maybe, travel in it? What if they made the whole thing transarent, the tunnel and all. How would it be to travel under sea. Amazaing. From there the Panama Canal and some airport the Japs built on the sea were discussed.

A new join-ant to the table would have no idea that the original discussion had been 'Doom is Nigh'. In Ankit's words in the end 'Everyone was excited about What the Humans Were Doing'.

:-) We Humans Are Crazy.