[fuzzfactor]

Well when I try to be as zealous a fanatic as possible it still isn't working, so it must be something else;) Good catch.

Sorry about having nothing to sell, it was all sold out by more well-informed and more persuasive geeks than me, way before I had a chance to get near any soapboxes.

Nothing wrong with a little reminder that some people's fruit hangs a lot lower than others.

[makerdiety]

The universe and unfriendly monsters are eating up all your accessible apples.

And that pleases me.

Because you're forced to turn into a monster yourself. If you don't want to starve and die.

So a little skilled zealotry is kinda essential. ;) So is probably persuading and selling others to your side. So that you can form a competent party of universe survival enthusiasts.

[fuzzfactor]

>universe survival enthusiasts.

People are way ahead of me on that, with skills that may only be valuable on my home planet, I'm sure to be left behind in the dust :(

Some things stand the test of time better than others.

And some ideas are not that new but maybe the earlier the concept the better. Not that long ago back at the beginning of 1970 Neil Young had something to say about how things might work out in the decade to come, from "After the Gold Rush":

"Look at Mother Nature on the run in the nineteen seventies."

"Well I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships . . ."

"The loading had begun, flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun."

https://genius.com/Neil-young-after-the-gold-rush-lyrics

But that was when every year that came along was another "routine" manned moon landing.

(2016) “After The Gold Rush is an environmental song,” Young said:

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-stories-behind-the-...