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[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

"Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an 
interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself 
in - it fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? 

In fact it fits me staggeringly well - it must have been made to have me 
in it!' 

This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises and as, gradually, the 
puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the 
notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was 
meant to have him in it, it was built to have him in it; so the moment he 
disappears catches him rather by surprise. 

I think this may be something we need to watch out for." Douglas Adams.


Right now, on SBS, there is a travel program regarding the Maldives.

The presenter is swimming over *many* acres of coral reef. All dead.

There's no local industry. No change agent polluting this environmnt.

But these centuries old coral reefs are white and dead. Few fish, no
seaweed. Rising temperatures and sea levels are blamed. Nothing else
changed to be any cause of these underwater wastelands. Why is it so?

Stephen