Thoughts for a Countdown.

In the article "Thoughts for a Countdown", the author starts off by saying how humans are afraid of things like diseases and foreign objects. We come to the conclusion that if something is foreign then it must be hostile and cannot be touched. The author further says that we soon have to find a way to kill it. He makes this connection by comparing this to foreign life on the moon, by stating that" if there should be life on the moon, we must begin by fearing it". I don't think that this is true and the author would agree with me too. I think, along with the author that although there are some species that are considered to be parasitic, not everything is bad. Instead of everything being a pathogen and harming everything, the connections between an organism along with another one can be considered to be symbiotic. They rely on each other to live. He even says that "every creature is, in some sense, connected to and dependent on the rest", like the previous statement he made in his first article. We are not independent creatures, we always rely on other things. This could range from the beneficial bacteria that grows in our stomach to help with metabolism to the bacteria that live in the tissues of insects, and without them they would not be able to survive. It is best to think that it is necessary for each other to live by depending on each other.