Here's a great way to start the week:
What a way to go
"According to Sir Martin Rees, author of Our Final Century, astronomer royal and professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, humans only have a 50-50 chance of making it through the 21st century without serious setback."
You know what I call the likes of Sir Rees?
ReplyDeleteAn optimist.
There has yet to be a century where there wasn't some kind of serious setback. Why would the 21st be the exception?
Tell me about it.
ReplyDeleteWhat really worries me is that facing many low-probability events greatly increases the probability that ONE of them will happen.
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Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of. It's not a matter of isolated risks. We're up against *all* this stuff.
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