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Elizabeth

Posted by Bob on February 14th, 2006 under Comment Responses


Elizabeth says,

“Incidentally, my favorite science fiction short story
is the one by Larry Niven about the bartender talking with
the very old creature (a chirpsithra)who remembered
visiting Earth when oxygen was a poisonous substance and
chlorophyll was threatening the dominant life form. ”

The story was called “The Green Plague.”

It talked about the greatest environmental catastrophe in earth’s history. Green plants evolved and began to take the carbon dioxide from the air and send out oxygen.

Early in earth’s history all life was sulfur based. Then the atmosphere became polluted by a substance so vicious that it actually ate iron. All the life forms at the time were destroyed or driven underground.

This murderous pollutant was oxygen. It is so potent that if you put water on iron the iron will be eaten away. Before this environmental disaster you couldn’t light a fire on earth. But this oxygen pollutant allowed fires to occur.

Niven did invent the idea that there were sentient sulfur-based beings before The Green Plague, but the rest of the story is based on fact.

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