"You know what I like about... «Into the Drowning Deep»
RamingoWS13 апреля 2018"You know what I like about the ocean we do have?" asked Dr. Toth. "The part where we`ve dumped so much crap into it that it would be justified in becoming something out of a horror movie, and yet the horror movie it`s giving us isn`t related to any of those things. Not really." "What do you mean?" asked Tory. "I mean if the mermaids are real -- and they are -- and if the mermaids are smart enough to be watching us -- which they also are -- they don`t have anything to do with humans. They evolved on their own. They stayed in their own environment until we started sending ships into their living room. To them, we`re the myths. We`re the monsters. We appear out of nowhere, we`ve probably snagged more than a few of them in fishing nets and trawler rigs, and half the things we have on us at any given time are going to be incomprehensible to a preindustrial society with no concept of manufacturing. They aren`t our fault. We didn`t mutate some flatworm into a murderous new form, and we didn`t melt a glacier that freed a prehistoric predator. They exist because they exist. That`s nice." Dr. Toth smirked. "I`m so used to humans being responsible for anything that it`s a pleasant change when we didn`t do it."
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