[ WP ] You are a spaceman watching the destruction of Earth below you , what are your final thoughts ?

*'' We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says,'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.'' -Robert Oppenheimer, Scientific Director of the Manhattan Project* 
 
 How do you think President Harry Truman felt when he made the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima? Do you think he looked at it from a purely strategical perspective? An `` it will save more lives than it will cost'' type of deal? Or do you think he took pause and stopped to consider every, individual, life he was deciding to take? Or how do you suppose Paul Tibbets felt, when he was flying high above 80,000 souls he was bout to incinerate? 
 
 I can tell you what I felt, when we made the decision to destroy Earth. I felt nothing. 
 
 It's amazing how quickly you can lose your love for something as large as a planet. If you had asked me, during my time on it, if I loved the Earth, I would have likely told you yes. But now that I look back on it, did I? Every human achievement was at the cost of the planet that held us. Everything we needed to survive was there for us, and we chose to create lumber mills, mines, factories, and power plants. We created plastics and unnatural materials that made a cesspit of our own home. Thing is, I do n't really feel bad about that. We really do n't love our planet. It's too big of a thing to keep in your mind every day. 
 
 By the time we decided to become death, we felt nothing for Earth. Part of it was that it was too big to conceive of, too big to wrap your head around. It's weird how the human mind works like that, the more people die, the less impact the event has on your mind. The other part of it was that, we knew we were ending it quickly, which we could justify as better for our conscience sake. The planet would be ruined if factories continued to run, trash continued to be created, forests continued to be cut down, and people continued to breed. We stopped it before it could happen. 
 
 There are about 35,000 humans from the ages of one to one-hundred-twenty-two alive aboard space stations orbiting Earth. The most elite members of society were quietly shuttled aboard by governments around the world once it was found that the Earth did not have enough natural resources to support the human population. 
 
 The stations were armed with a virus that we used to wipe out the remaining population of Earth after we left. Everyone on the stations was given a vaccine and is immune. The virus is engineered to not mutate. It will die when there are no humans left to infect. 
 
 The people remaining on Earth were going tribal, killing each other over what food and fresh water was left. The air was making them sick. Zealots and bandits rule that Earth. That's what I tell myself at least. I'm sure there were good people left on the planet, but saving them would have cost us the planet itself. 
 
 We will return to Earth, immune to the virus, and we will start over. I know that when I get down there, I plan to do it right this time. 
 

