Noah and the Great Flood

The story of Noah and the great flood has the erie quality of showing up in a variety of ancient culutres/religions, some of which had no contact with each other. This could be indicative of either mankind's universal respect for large bodies of water or the fact that there actually was a great flood at some point in ancient history (maybe the dinosaurs all drowned).

The biblical version of this story describes God's most vengeful act against mankind. He decides that man has become too evil/lost in sin and wants to start over. Noah, a simple carpenter, was charged with building an ark that would survive the flood and preserve animal life on Earth. He gathered a male and a female of every animal (except unicorns) and put them on his ark. Then God made it rain and everybody except the creatures that were on the ark drowned.

The animal that fascinates me the most is a charazard. This animal is a pokémon and breathes fire and flies and totally exists. It is better than a regular dragon because it can fit in a pocket sized ball and is basically guaranteed to obey your evey command.

I also think that the mantis shrimp is very cool because of it's super vision and super strength and super speed, but that choice is pretty unoriginal so I won't expound on it.

I think that the world will end in neither ice nor fire, but rather radiation, which will end up frying everything well before the sun blows up (which would fall into the fire catagory). I do not trust this species to keep us in existence for too many more millenia, so we'll probably end all life on Earth much earlier than nature intended.

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