"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men." Charles Darwin
How do you like your food? Like yourself, we also have vegetarians on my planet. And not only humans, but animals too.
Talking about food, does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds on your planet, too? Yes, yes, I also support the idea of defining a generic galactic time, but for now let's stick to my timescale please. No way! Hard to believe that no person dies of hunger on your planet. No child abuse? No under-age marriage? No rape? I'm really looking forward to taking a look through the windows of your spaceship one day.
Coming back to animal kingdom of my home,, you must see the diversity of exquisiteness of animals evolved to survive in their environments.
Ivory-seeking poachers have killed 100,000 African elephants in just three years on my planet. During 2011 alone, roughly one of every twelve African elephants was killed by a poacher. Same thing with the rhinoceros. At the beginning of the 20th century there were 500,000 rhinos across Africa and Asia. This fell to 70,000 by 1970 and further to just 29,000 in the wild today.
What Is Poaching?
Poaching is the illegal taking of wildlife, in violation of local, state, federal or international law. Activities that are considered poaching include killing an animal out of season, without a license, with a prohibited weapon, or in a prohibited manner such as jacklighting. Killing a protected species, exceeding one's bag limit or killing an animal while trespassing are also considered to be poaching.
Despite of all the violence, tyranny, inequality, injustice and many other horrifying things on my planet, there has always been great minds, who were sharp and bold enough to experiment different phenomena of nature to curb their curiosity, which we call 'science' today. In a nutshell, while millions of assholes are still digging each others' graves, some brilliant scientists are trying to figure out ways to save human lives by way of medicine, astrophysics, material sciences, molecular biology, environmental sciences, space exploration and many more.
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- Victor! Show our guest how good of a barista you are and fix us a nice Guatemalan brew.
Let's go to the Armstrong deck to see the marvels of engineering.
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