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So you agree with me: crisis and solutions. Nobody said "brush everything off". On the contrary I said that solution will be searched & found.

As for "catastrophic damage": yes they are possible (even an asteroid hitting earth. But what are THE ODDS of us not figuring out a solution in time? Even lower than those of the event occurring in the first place, and thus practically negligible.

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>But what are THE ODDS of us not figuring out a solution in time?

What? If the right size celestial body were heading for the earth there wouldn't be much we could do about it. There are a great deal of things that can happen that we would be utterly powerless to stop.

Given that, there is no point worrying about such things. If such a thing ever does happen, I'll probably be gone by then anyway.

Exactly. Thank you.

Ah, I interpreted your comment to mean that what ever happens we will be smart enough to solve it. I agree that worrying about things utterly beyond our control is senseless.

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