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Author Topic:   Scenarios For the Near Future Climax of Human History
lfen
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Message 23 of 36 (290260)
02-25-2006 4:37 AM
Reply to: Message 16 by Hangdawg13
12-04-2005 2:54 PM


Re: Dusk approaches
though is it really possible for a bacteria or virus to have a death rate of 100%? yeah... I spose it really is possible...
Hey Dawg!
I would guess that it is possible but extremely unlikely. Even though the world is effectively smaller there are so many people and so spread out that I would guess there would be some resistant pockets or people who evade it. Diseases also tend to mutate to be less lethal.
Which is more likely extinction through a massive plague or extinction as a result of an asteriod collision? In a spirit of chance I pick the asteroid.
lfen

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lfen
Member (Idle past 4706 days)
Posts: 2189
From: Oregon
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Message 24 of 36 (290261)
02-25-2006 4:42 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Hangdawg13
11-30-2005 2:48 PM


Dawg,
I vote Dickens, Charles
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
English novelist (1812 - 1870)
lfen

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