If you could go back in time - where and when ?

[bgreene]

Perspective :

The dinosaurs had an exceptionally great run - about 100 million years of successful life on our planet, before asteroid impact. We think of the dinosaur age as somehow brief but it was a very very long period of earth time .

Humans …..we’ve been around for about 6 million years and only so called “ modern “ for a few thousand . Impact to our planet approaching catastrophic over only the past few hundred years. Massive largely uncontrolled population growth, enormous and toxic waste generation, and insatiable demand to exploit all natural resources .

So yeh, just to go back a mere 150,000 years right here in New Jersey, look around and return would be heaven to me

[scook]

The eagles around here have had an amazing recovery since the effects of DDT have diminished. They’re all over the place.

My wife and I were as the beach a couple Christmases ago and found some kind of sea bird fouled in one of those little crab traps you cast with a fishing pole. We cut it loose and had it wrapped in a coat, since it was obviously injured, made a call to the wildlife rescue folks and waited, and waited for a response. The bird was getting a little rambunctious (clearly not appreciating what we were doing for it) and finally it was obvious we needed to turn it loose. It took off hobbling (like Festus from the old Gums one show), just got to the water and an Eagle nailed it. Of course then we heard back from the wildlife lady, told her the story and she said “ oh well, merry Christmas Eagle”. Not so funny for the injured bird, but the eagle didn’t waste any of it - we found the carcass coming back and it was picked clean.