These are the 12 things most likely to destroy the world

http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/techandscience/these-are-the-12-things-most-likely-to-destroy-the-world/ar-BBhLrv6?ocid=UP97DHP#page=12

 

Everyone of them would be the worst nightmare to live through.

It seems to me most strange that men should fear,

Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

--Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

No point being depressed about it - given the history of our planet, it was unlikely the human race was going to spin on forever anyway, unless we make a concerted effort to be somewhere else when the next extinction level event happens.

It seems to me most strange that men should fear,

Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

--Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

 

No point being depressed about it - given the history of our planet, it was unlikely the human race was going to spin on forever anyway, unless we make a concerted effort to be somewhere else when the next extinction level event happens.

 

I like that. If I may, I'll borrow from the bard as well.

 

There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow an asteroid.

If it be now, 'tis not to come;

if it be not to come, then it will be now;

if it be not now, yet it will come.

The readiness is all.

--Hamlet, William Shakespeare

First Science Forum I've been on where people quote Shakespeare.

First Science Forum I've been on where people quote Shakespeare.

Aren't you just glad you're here to see it?

Aren't you just glad you're here to see it?

 

I'm glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when I read that.

 

I'm glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when I read that.

What would it have been, a new keyboard or phone?

 

We would never share such disparate insights if this was a dry science forum and that's why I can happily live with the forums' rough edges. I see the rough edge as a necessary degree of freedom for stuff like this to happen.

Edited February 20, 201510 yr by StringJunky