05-29-2012, 10:50 AM
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...so, the next "total extinction" will be happy, prosperous and final?
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05-30-2012, 10:39 AM
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Dengue kills more people every year. The "regular" flu and AIDS kill more people every day.
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I never heard of this before.
Dengue fever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Makes me want to stay at home.
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05-30-2012, 10:41 AM
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One thought - I live in Cambridge UK, where we see a huge number of asian students. I once read that if 10% of kids in China are 'Gifted', then there are more 'gifted' children in China, than there are kids in the USA!
Maybe the next generation will have the vision and foresight to see and do what we can't even imagine?
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Great statement, I'm going to be quoting you at some time in the future. 
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05-30-2012, 01:43 PM
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...I was just remembering such current-events as Desert Storm, Desert Shield,
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...Generally range from 100,000 region to 1,000,000 (with the larger figure from asking civilians if they knew anyone that died in a relatively small sample)
Again, results vary greatly from 20,000-430,000 with the larger figure said to result from associated diseases.
Which were simple global hysteria compared to their actual mortality rates. With 355 deaths from H5N1 and 775 from SARS.
Natural disasters hitting densely populated areas are probably a far greater threat to humanity than what humans can actually do. Imagine a Tsunami hitting the east coast of the USA. |
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05-30-2012, 02:24 PM
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One thought - I live in Cambridge UK, where we see a huge number of asian students. I once read that if 10% of kids in China are 'Gifted', then there are more 'gifted' children in China, than there are kids in the USA!
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Not quite true, though. China has 322 million under 18, USA has 75 million. That's 25%, not 10%.
UNICEF - China - Statistics
UNICEF - At a glance: United States of America - Statistics
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05-30-2012, 09:03 PM
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Natural disasters hitting densely populated areas are probably a far greater threat to humanity than what humans can actually do. Imagine a Tsunami hitting the east coast of the USA.
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As long as you are using terminology like ... what humans can actually do ... I'm going to disagree ... I'll take that Tsunami of yours ... and raise you a global nuclear strike on every major populated area on the planet ... and that isn't even as bad as what we ... 'Can' do ... if we actually put an active effort into it to try to be self destructive on purpose ... what we 'can' do is a very great deal. |
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05-31-2012, 03:06 AM
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Sure, if you can tolerate poisoned water and air, and perpetuated climate change.
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