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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6256650" data-attributes="member: 4936">At the scale we're talking about, I don't know if 'good' or 'bad' even apply anymore.Even if it's possible to step it (which I honestly doubt), we have to examine the real possibility that stopping it could be immeasurably worse than letting it go. Consider that the cycle has clearly played out before, but the world still exists and time still works, and people and life are still in abundance. Can we be sure the same will be true if the cycle is stopped? The level of intervention it seems to require suggests to me that whatever motivates these events may exist on that scale. We're like mice playing in a nuclear missle silo at this point...wondering if we should jump on the flashing red button, or the flashing green button.My bias towards not interrupting the cycle is predicated pretty much entirely on the idea that the cycle, at the very least, doesn't seem to cause devastation beyond the ecosphere's capacity to recover from. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> For all we know, the purpose of the cycle may well be to prevent such a cataclysm.That said, if Wisco can learn more from the facilities here (and now that Echo appears to be offered a chance to do so, her as well), then I'm all for that. Knowing more in this case could be the difference between life and death for a whole lotta people.</blockquote>

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