Big Frank Wonders (ten times)

Big Frank has been wondering about 10 things:
1. What happens in the holes that oil is extracted from. They must be very large and empty. Will they collapse? And when they do, will anyone notice?
2. In two hundred years, when all the oil is gone and they look back on the vehicles that we drove around burning this black gunk; will they find it romantic as we often think of the time when people road in horse-drawn carriages, oblivious of horse manure .
3. Look around at all your possessions and think where they will be in two hundred years, keeping in mind how many possession you now have that your great-great-great-great grandparents had. Then go back 10 generations - there is nothing left.
4. People who fall in love and then fall out often say, “That was only an illusion.” I wasn’t really in love with the other person – rather with my vision of them, or their façade. Does that mean the feelings were not real?
5. How many times have you heard people say that people are “like” animals? In fact, of course, people are animals. Why do so many of them want to divorce themselves from their kind?
6. We have more than 200 species of bacteria living on us. And it has been calculated that a human adult houses about 10 to the 12th power of bacteria on the skin, 10 to the 10th power in the mouth, and 10 to the 14th power in the gastrointestinal tract. In fact humans have 10 times more bacteria riding on them than they have cells. Have you ever thought that there are more of them in/on you than there is of you (1)?
7. Cosmologically spinning off the previous rumination: what if our universe were a bacteria on an organism on a planet in another universe that is in fact just another bacteria on an organism on a planet in another universe etc. etc.?
8. Your perception of “reality” is not there in here: not you out there. Your perception of reality is just that; it is your brains simulacrum of what’s out there – it’s like an artists rendition of reality. Here your brain is the artist. Have you ever thought that, in fact, it’s more you than it.
9. We are familiar with the concept and the job of “greeter”. However, there is no opposite – no fareweller or good byer. Why not?
10. Why is it that "how are you?" is replacing "hello" or "hi" as a greeting? Perhaps it has something to do with, in English, our discomfort with single word communications. How about stretching the "hello" out with to a more comfortable length with something like, "Hello there"? Then it would remove the false inquiry (nobody really wants an answer to "how are you")?