Pondering

A couple of days back I was watching the movie Independence day for the n th time . Well its one of my favourite movies and so i was killing time watching the movie.
A small thought occurred to me , what if our earth encounters some catastrophe like in that movie ? . How will India and Pakistan react to a world-wide disaster? Will the people on the either side help one another to lick the wounds and rise up together or will we continue to squabble amongst ourselves. I have really no clue. How will Iran, which has taken oath to obliterate Israel off the Map of the earth react to if Israel is devastated or vice-versa.
Funny how the people's minds work. As an example, during U K's war against Argentina for Falklands, the Communist party cadres (read unions) threw away the rule book and worked 24*7 to defend the honour of their motherland. They of course went back to their earlier ways of strike communist philosophy after the war.
Why is that we human beings, living on a tiny sized planet in a corner of the universe think so much of ourselves? A small shake here , a Volcano there we all tremble with fear.
Mother earth has so far been patient allowing us to plunder her riches and take ownership of the same.What will happen if a small rock bout the size of a tiny village hit earth ? Won't we all be goners in a flash. It is ironic that we have so many nuclear weapons to kill ourselves many times over.
The Impunity of this puny Homo-sapien astounds me.Will the divisions in the name of caste,creed,color, nationality,gender,religion and what not save us from a small slap from the Hand-of-Universe .
Deep questions but no answers. We as a human race always had and will have a tremendous affinity towards things that tend to destroy not only us but also everything surrounding us .
Lets hope that we all learn a lesson from our past if not human beings as a race will cease to exist.