Rain Does Not Dampen The Land

 Rain Does Not Dampen The Land

“It doesn’t?”

“No. Land drinks it right up. Sometimes it gets a little more than it can hold at the moment, but the land deals with it one way or another. None of it goes to waste.”

“I dunno, I think you’re stretching a point, there. There’s such a thing as soil erosion.”

“Well, maybe that wasn’t the perfect way of phrasing it, but my point is, the land and the water cycle work together, as they have for a long time. They adjust, they adapt, the land works things out. Maybe not to the perfect convenience and satisfaction of Homo sapiens, but we’re just one species, we can’t claim a privileged position.”

“Okay, now you’re headed into George Carlin territory.”

“And here I was actually trying to sound optimistic. And more than that, even, to look to the future, to the other planets. We’re learning so much about the water table on Mars, for instance. We’re a long way from being ready to begin terraforming, but we’re learning a lot about how the entire water cycle works, and even about how the cycle works on bodies like Titan, where the fluid at work isn’t even water.”

“No - there, the water is the soil.”

The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Happy Mardi Gras."

 

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