Originally Posted by numan
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One could extend the metaphor to any object and the environment which surrounds it and supports it -- a particle in a field, a species and the ecosystem which is essential to its survival.

It would be foolhardy to jump quickly to the conclusion that anything is useless -- though, of course, even fools may have their uses. · · wink

Indeed they do! wink

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