Silicon [dirt = SILICON] never goes extinct.* That stuff is
   amazing.* Seals leaky drafts, makes our skin waterproof, we walk
   on it everywhere and it's it's like mixing RUBBER and COPPER
   together to make an insulating-conducting wonky weird substance
   that we're basing our computers on. So yeah, we need dirt for
   the Internet.* Simple. Oh, and Windows are made of it too.* One
   we see through, the other runs on modified dirt. Dirt keeps us
   from falling to the center of the earth due to gravity.* It
   would SUCK without dirt (literally): Imagine: 7 billion people
   all balled up together in the middle?* What a mess.