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As Sherwin B. Nuland has put it: "Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

All organisms are in some sense slaves to their genes. That's why salmon and spiders and other types of creatures more or less beyond counting are prepared to die in the process of mating. The desire to breed, to disperse oneв's genes, is the most powerful impulse in nature.

Bacteria can live long life unimaginable to us. Bacillus Permians, a bacteria that possibly existed since approximately 250 million years ago was said to have been activated from its millennium of hibernation after it was discovered in the ancient sea salt in New Mexico.

(whoa.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biologic...

We have almost the perfect distance from the right source of heat (star: Sun) which supplies us pleasant warmth enough to make life possible. Note that our star is young. Had our star been too massive and it might burn itself up too early.- Special Planet

We have almost the perfect distance from the right source of heat (star: Sun) which supplies us pleasant warmth enough to make life possible. Note that our star is young. Had our star been too massive and it might burn itself up too early.- Special Planet

We have almost the perfect distance from the right source of heat (star: Sun) which supplies us pleasant warmth enough to make life possible. Note that our star is young. Had our star been too massive and it might burn itself up too early.- Special Planet

The more I examine the universe
and study the details of its architecture,
the more evidence I find that the
universe in some sense must have
known we were coming.
-Freeman Dyson