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Why not humans whales to hide from predators? The long journey of our atoms, this side for the union flag? Authors of the letter selfish

If whales are so intelligent, why not have learned to keep out of the way of human predators?

Perhaps the reason why the number of species of whales, many seem to be declining is that the poor animals are kept out of the way of those trying to say - I know I

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From my houseboat on the Thames, which regularly see large fish in water, but never the days fishermen are around. Perhaps we should consider how the tent and give the whales a break?

Graham Williams, Tagged Island, Hampton

How do you know that? After all, Captain Ahab was very hard to catch Moby Dick.

Many men tend to dominate other mammals, exulting in her superior intelligence. But most of the human brain and whales have the same structure, which comes from a common ancestor, and whales are larger. The intelligence of whales work in different ways with different objectives, so that they are so smart by doing what is right. They can, for example, to navigate between the poles without GPS or other device to help them. How many humans could do this?

In evolutionary terms, humans have been around for a time almost infinitesimal, and only a few hundred years have been able to capture whales, so for millions of years existence of whales, humans played no role. Now there is an interaction, one can imagine that the whales to avoid ship and thus escape the attention of the whalers to live and reproduce and perpetuate the species.

Terence Hollingworth, Blagnac, France

Where are all the atoms that make up the "I" was the creation of the earth? Were among others through the centuries?

All atoms that make up your body were once part of the stars - the phrase "we are stardust" is not only poetic fancy. After that they were part of the planet sterile ( later called the Earth) for a few billion years, and when life began, the bits that later became "we" has become a part of the first life forms on earth - bacteria, plants, animals, mushrooms, etc. -. those who share the atoms, in particular atoms of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen

statistical certainty, many of the 7 billion billion atoms that make up your body have been part of many other organisms in the distant past. Some of them were part of living things (plants and animals) in the recent past - they ate. But some of these people are still alive and sharing the planet with you as you read this, if for no other way than by the fact that the air they breathe to another, it is the air that is inhaled, the venous blood is red because oxygen was another person last month and will be a different person again the next day.

You may feel that their "self" is a solid entity, immutable, but the fact that the houses that it is a seething mass, coming and going all the time.

Francis Blake, London N17

Similarly, it is said that the water of the Thames has been used up to seven different people before finally reaching the sea

Oliver Sheppard Vincennes, France

referendum on Scottish independence would succeed, what would happen to the union flag?

Marion Hutt, Staines, Middx

Cruz The blue St. Andrew is removed, leaving a flag of England and Northern Ireland. Wales has never been represented in the flag and the Republic of Ireland to the left in the last century.