Re: How will the world end
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The biggest long-term threat is a close proximity supernova.
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This has got to pale next to us killing ourselves off one way or the other.
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People lack the strength and conviction to keep killing themselves off. A virus gone amok isn't enough - there are so many pockets of population that are isolated enough to survive. I don't know about full-scale nuclear war - maybe one or two going off here or there, but not enough to end it. Climate change might change some things and move a whole [censored] ton of people, but that's not ending mankind. I dunno, maybe nano-tech will do it.
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I think the supernova thing is supposed to take 4-5 billion years to occur. I'd be willing to bet that something like an asteroid or something else will end all life before this happens.
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I'm not talking about the sun going supernova -- I'm talking about the a nearby star going supernova and crushing earth with some fierce radiation.
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