Monday, April 18, 2005

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."

4 comments:

JohnFen said...

You know what I call the likes of Sir Rees?

An optimist.

There has yet to be a century where there wasn't some kind of serious setback. Why would the 21st be the exception?

Mac said...

Tell me about it.

Anonymous said...

What really worries me is that facing many low-probability events greatly increases the probability that ONE of them will happen.
--WMB

Mac said...

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of. It's not a matter of isolated risks. We're up against *all* this stuff.