What exact country is this supposedly...

She looks fine at 124 to me

^that hurts me

Savage

The elections are over a year away, I think a lot will change by then

NO, THIS IS PATRICK!!!

No, he's Jaden

I actually pretty much agree with you there I guess. Not about the humanitarian issue but that's just an opinion. :)

I think whether the species is endangered or extinct, there is a negative impact on the environment when it comes to critical species. Extinction is certainly worse, considering there's then no hope for a population regrowth. And collapse seems pretty accurate considering the habitat we were talking about was "devoid of life" by the end.

Okay, but you said "endangered special are not a problem. The species dies out, nothing happens" and clearly, having a small number of otters or if the otters had gone extinct, the ecosystem would have collapsed...

"In the 1700s, sea otters along the coast of California were hunted nearly to extinction for their furs and killed by fishermen who thought they were eating too much of the fish they wanted to catch. When the otters disappeared, the animals they normally eat, sea urchins, enjoyed a large population boom. Soon, there were so many sea urchins that they ate all of the kelp, a type of seaweed, at the bottom of the ocean, and caused an “urchin barren” to form, which means that the ocean floor is scraped clean and becomes an “ocean desert” in the ocean that is essentially devoid of life."

*sigh* you should read those. Sorry for antagonizing you, I'm clearly not going to change your mind on this one. :)

What you're saying just isn't accurate http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2014/09/australias-keystone-endangered-species
https://thisisnoordinaryworld.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/sea-otters-adorable-endangered-and-a-keystone-species/

Are you serious? Have you taken a biology course? A species is not an isolated unit, organisms are interdependent. If one species goes extinct from unnatural disaster (aka us humans), it can throw an entire ecosystem out of whack. Natural extinctions do happen, but extinctions due to poaching, loss of habitat, and the human footprint are a whole different ballgame...

That's true! What I should have said that it would have stayed in orbit for quite a while. But the MIR was a controlled orbital decay, and technicians used the engines of the vessel to speed up the process and put the debris where they wanted them to go. Since we're assuming the ISS is just suddenly abandoned, its orbital decay would take longer, probably a few years at least. A large portion of the ISS would also burn up in the atmosphere, and the chunks that did make it to earth would likely end up falling into the oceans just cause that's the surface of most of our planet. What I was trying to say is that the ISS should be the least of your worries if you find yourself alone on the planet. :)

I think this is awesome in terms of fifteen minute distractions, it calls attention to the problem of illegal poaching and endangered species.