| Passage from Hot Zone
"In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the
flooding infection of people, the dead spots of concrete all over the
planet, the cancerous rot-outs in Europe, Japan, and the United States,
thick with replicating primates, the colonies enlarging and spreading
and threatening to shock the biosphere with mass extinctions.
Perhaps the biosphere does not 'like' the idea of five billion humans.
Or it could also be said that the extreme amplification of the human
race, which has occured only in the past one hundred years or so, has
suddenly produced a very large quantity of meat, which is sitting
everywhere in the biosphere and may not be able to defend itself
against a life form that might want to consume it. The rain forest has its own defenses. The earth's immune system, so to speak, has recognized the presence of the human species and is starting to kick in. The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by the human parasite. Perhaps AIDs is the first step in a natural process of clearance."
"I
suspect that AIDs might not be Nature's preeminent display of power.
Whether the human race can actually maintain a population of five
billion or more without a crash with a hot virus remains and open
question. Unanswered. The answer lies hidden in the labyrinth of
tropical ecosystems. AIDs is the revenge of the rain forest. It may only be the beginning."
HOT
VIRUS = military slang for a lethally infective virus. It has no cure.
It has no vaccine. and it kills almost everything it infects. |
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i photoshopped my friend rachel!!!!!!!!!
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its on my bicep. it came out great. i loved my new tattoo artist! i'll definitely go back to him!!!
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A little purple, a little blue, a little turquoise... You know... going for that mermaid/rainbow bright look 
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| So I'm going to get a tattoo of a rat, Holly's birth month/year to death
month/year and her footprint. Its down to two rat pictures. Which one do you
guys think is best?
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