Reply #266: I'm sure that's what the fish said to the ones that kept leaping up onto the land

[gtar100]

or flying into the air until they sprouted feet and wings. "We are creatures of the water; this air stuff is for the birds, whatever they are". Then again, they didn't have enough mental capacity to realize just how improbable it was for a fish to fly or walk on the land. To that, we are as much creatures of space as we are of earth. We are as much of this galaxy as we are of the earth, which is where our ashes will be spread yet again in our inevitable future. It's just that it's still too early to leave our mother earth except on short leaps into space. Like those fish that kept falling right back into the water. Up until the day one just kept going up and didn't come back.