Ryan Milad,
Don't worry...they'll not be needing human advocacy. You see, you can't keep
a symbranchid eel down. The scamps even burrow underground where they can
live on such delicacies as grubs, worms etc.
I have excavated 'em with D6 bulldozers at eight feed under dried up rice
lands... above a toxic water table... all they need is a close to 100%
relative humidity... and heh heh they can feed out of water. So they might
be able to live underground - once there's a food supply (...and varying
with species...) indefinitely.
I have even seen them under tropical forest floor a mile away from the
nearest river.
They boldly go where no man has gone before.
Stop 'em... uh uh, ...you'll have to wait until the next advance of the ice
sheet... or maybe the next retreat (...whichever comes first...); Florida'll
have to be under 100 foot of Atlantic ocean before you get rid of those
buggers.
And I've found them out at sea...too.
But fear not, in two or three human generations... people will be so used to
them that they'll be as American as Apple Pie (...hmmm another nonnative
species...).
cymm
-----Original Message-----
From: White, Ryan <ryan@dvelco.com>
To: 'extropians@extropy.org' <extropians@extropy.org>
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2000 4:21 PM
Subject: RE: Asian Swamp Eels
>
>Exterminating a successful species seems sort of like punnishing a
>successful software company, except that the eels have no means within our
>social system to represent or defend their interests.
>
>I find it amusing how arbitrarily many humans seem to assign value to
>species on this planet.
>
>Perhaps, before the human concensus makes decisions about how interfere
with
>another species, some sort of defense attorney should be elected to
>represent the species submitted for judgement, and a hearing should
convene.
>;)
>
>Ryan v24.6
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