Monday, March 2, 2009

Hows that for Sci-fi!

Imagine if the sun is suddenly blown out by a gust of very strong celestial wind! Here's a list of what could happen:

1. It will become dark...very dark! (Huh!)
2. It will become freezing cold! (Yeah like you needed to tell me that!) The temperature will plummet to several degrees below zero.
3. The trees will die. No sun, no photosynthesis, no food for the plants...hence they all start wilting...
4. No trees, no vegetation for the herbivores. No food for herbivores, two things can happen: One, they die. Two, they become carnivores! (Now that's an idea!)
5. If small herbivores die, carnivores go without food and ultimately die. Here too, a gamut of possibilities can happen. Carnivores go without food and die, that's one. On second thoughts, what if they start feeding on fellow carnivores and turn to cannibalism as well...Third, they become aquatic! (This I'll explain later!)
6. Where do humans go? (Good question!) Since the temperature has dropped way beyond freezing point, there's one thing that we can do....any guesses?? We start burrowing! Yeah! If the theory that there is a real hot centre deep down the middle of the earth (read A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, you'll know what I'm talking about...) is true after all, we can all start burrowing and build homes inside the earth to be close to that heat source. Magma.
7. What do we eat? (Ah! If only they had Mac D's and Pizza Huts down there!) We are forced to become vegetarian! (Finally!) We eat roots of trees that are hundreds of thousands of years old! Of course there will be other animals who will think of migrating deep down under (!) to be safe from the cold! We can eat those too. Take your pick. Fresh rodents! Fresh rodents! Imagine a meat shop under several layers of the earth selling mole fillet and rat flanks!
8. Then if Lamarck's theory holds true (It proposed that individual efforts during the lifetime of the organisms were the main mechanism driving species to
adaptation, as they supposedly would acquire adaptive changes and pass them on to offspring.) then human beings would slowly become stooped. Grow large talons (to dig out earth) and maybe even snouts! Hell! We would all end up looking like rodents! Welcome to Gnawville!

Disclaimer: The above views are products of my own imagination and no scientist, scientific research or theory should be held responsible for these views! Infact, these views would make for good quality (but cheap!) science fiction!

p.s. What about aquatic life? Well...need to research a bit on this one! Wait for my next post...

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