To: Investor
From: K&P Securities Inc.
Re: Investments
I don’t think I need to remind you of the importance of this decision. P-L5 once brought 2 billion dollars a year into our company finances and we cannot afford to miss this opportunity. Re-settlement must begin at once! The initial investment needed to rebuild this colony is incidental when compared to the trillions of dollars it would take to locate, study, and prepare a new planet. All the infrastructure, buildings, roads and landscaping are intact. As for the "Alien Problem," we humans have been dealing with far more complex and dangerous life forms for millenniums on earth--why should we jump at the sight of a few trilobites? So the people can’t go to the beach--we’ll build a "Cambrian Park" that will knock their socks off! And if the things evolve again, well, we’ll just put in a couple of strategic fences. I have compiled a short list of resources you might find useful. I don’t care what you argue so long as you convince those judges to re-colonize.
I’ll be waiting,
J.D Kaper, CEO K&P Securities
Leads and Sources
Magazines and Articles:
"When Life Exploded," J. Madeleine Nash. Cover Story Time Magazine December 4, 1995.
"On Embryos and Ancestors," Stephen Jay Gould. Natural History 7/98-8/98, p. 20.
"The Evolution of Life on the Earth," Stephen Jay Gould. Scientific American October 1994, p. 85.
"Breathing Room for Early Animals" (Oxygen), Andrew H. Knoll. Nature Vol. 382, July 11, 1996, p. 111.
"The Big Bang of Animal Evolution," Jeffrey Levinton. Scientific American November 1992.
"Hypersea," Dianna and Mark McMenamin. Discover October 1995, p. 76.
"The Emergence of Animals," Mark McMenamin. Scientific American April 1987, p. 94.
"Life’s Grand Explosions." (theories on why the Cambrian explosion occurred), Lori Oliwenstein. Discover January 1996, p. 42.
"The Molecular Explosion," Henry Gee. Nature Vol. 373, February 16,1995, p. 558.
Internet Sites:
The Divisions of Precambrian Time
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/precambrian/precambrian.htmlLife of the Vendian
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/vendianlife.htmlLearning About the Vendian Animals
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/critters.htmlOxygen Pulse and the Evolutionary Expansion of the Metazoans
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/8200/Oxygenation.htmlCambrian Explosion
http://www.carleton.ca/Museum/camex/1ahome.html
Books:
The Emergence of Animals: The Cambrian Breakthrough. Mark and Dianna McMenamin, 1990, Columbia University Press.
Biology: The Science of Life. Wallace, Sanders and Ferl, 4th ed., 1996, Addison-Wesley.