[betty boop]

Please, oh please, don't go into your deep lurk mode. I love to read your PH-isms

Ditto that from me, PH!!!

[PatrickHenry]

Well ... because it's you two I'll stick around. But I can't contribute anything to speculations about "the earth evolves as a single living global entity." I plan to snooze through that, and I'll perk up when we start to focus on some biological distinction between living and non-living cells.