Posted on 04/13/2005 8:28:38 PM PDT by aculeus
IMHO, the world as we know it will end when the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ returns...we are told that several of those scenarios are likely to accompany it.
We're all doomed; I need a drink and some pork rhinds. ;-)
Behold a pale horse..
Behold a pale horse..
That's one way to describe Hillary, but I think you might be insulting the equine species.
These scenarios are much like the Drake equation. A lot of math, but very little in the way of certainty.
Generally speaking, all of these risks for complete extinction can be mitigated by a more robust interest in space exploration.
Even within our solar system, we have found places that are either possible nurseries for the existence of life or able to be converted for our needs with acceptable effort.
Nonsense.
According to the seminal paper on the subject, "The Size and Frequency of the Largest Explosive Eruptions on Earth" by Mason, Pyle, and Oppenheimer, from last year, there is a .02% chance of a supervolcanic eruption in the next 100 years, or about 1 in 5,000.
2 Peter 3:10
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." -KJV
I guess everyone else has the false prophets of doom and gloom.
:p
#11:
Following Jim Doyle's rejection of the feral cat hunt, feline population in Wisconsin explode. Stories of cat attacks grow exponentially and spread throughout the civilized world...the human race would have been wiped out had not a few areas where asian buffets remained open for business. For some reason the felines avoided these areas.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
-- Robert Frost
"We are now pretty certain this state of matter won't form at Brookhaven and that the Earth won't be swallowed when these particles collide."
Um....."pretty certain" sounds pretty weak given the gravity :P of the consequences of being wrong, and the weak need to smush the particles together. What say we just call it a day and forget the accelerator? Ok?
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