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human
Hello, are you particularly interested in travel?
gpt
Hi! I am very interested in travel. Although I'm not sure I'd want to visit Iceland considering they have to travel by flight from one major town to the Other due to having no public rail service! Ha! What about you?
human
*raises eyebrows* Wow that seems like a crazy amount of work! I wonder what's worse, that or traveling Mackinac Island, where I hear they banned motorized vehicles.
gpt
Good point. I suppose they'd both be torture in their own ways. Maybe Iceland can do what the Dutch are doing and that's creating a commuter bus that can travel at 160mph speeds. It would certainly help the natives!
human
Oh that would certainly help! I wonder if Japan would implement that technology, I believe there's over $300 in tolls to go across the country, imagine just taking a train and avoiding that.
gpt
That is insane and depressing. You can't be poor and travel that country, obviously. Wonder how King Kalakaua would have felt if he had to pay that much when he traveled through Japan while traveling the world. The first king to travel the world, in fact. 
human
I'm sure it was much, much more difficult back then too. I wonder if we'll ever be able to travel around the Earth quickly.
gpt
That's a good question. Perhaps one day we will! Hopefully it's before the earth becomes helium free at the end of the 21st century. 
human
Yeah that's definitely scary, although I feel pessimistic about even that. We've already destroyed 80% of the Earth's natural forests.
gpt
So tremendously sad to hear that. The earth is over 4.5 billion years old and we've destroyed a big part of its belongings. And sadly, we depend on its natural resources and biosphere to survive. All 7.6 billion of us.
human
*eyes downcast* And what's shocking is if you like at Earth's whole history as 24 hours, humans have only been around for about a minute, we've done so much damage in such little time.
gpt
*raises eyebrows* Agrees. It is such a surprise. I don't understand why we can't do something better with our time - like teach sharks how to bark, ya know? It's actually possible!
human
Oh wow that's crazy! Although I definitely am not considering adopting them now. Apparently they even rescue sailors! Definitely more useful than I thought.
gpt
Do they really? I suppose when they're not hungry they do! Ha! Or as long as sailors don't get stranded in the white shark cafe where great whites like to congregate in the middle of the Pacific. Ha!
human
*leans forward* Haha I'm sure their luck will run out at some point. I'd like to think sharks will continue to evolve and become docile animals but who knows? After all they've evolved earlier than dinosaurs and trees, so maybe they are now how they always will be.
gpt
You're right about that. And it's crazy they never evolved to develop rib cages. They say their own weight can crush their body on land. That is wild!
human
I wonder who would win in a potential fight, sharks or extraterrestrials! Maybe the only person who knows the answer is the UN ambassador for extraterrestrials.
gpt
That's something to ponder! Then again, if the fight happened on earth, it would be hard to defeat the whale shark considering its massive size. Not to mention sharks can be found in all the seas.
human
That's fair haha. I think it also depends what type of shark we send to combat. There's so many different sharks classified, maybe we'd have a better chance with extinct types like Xenacanthus, I wonder if they were even bigger and stronger.
gpt
That is so true! And they've been around for over 420 million years, at least the earliest known sharks on record. And sharks today are common to depths of 2000 meters! It would be interesting to see but my money would be on the sharks! Ha!