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	50% chance of making it!

wildcat

5-9-2008 6:23 AM

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human nature, survival, earth

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5-9-2008 7:36 AM

skwirlinator

Exit Mundi gives you some scenarios on our demise. Its a pretty decent website and some of the scenarios are frighteningly close to reality

5-9-2008 9:02 AM

Antara

I believe we will make it

5-9-2008 2:46 PM

tanyamm

Humans are like cockroaches, we'll survive anything.

5-9-2008 8:27 PM

papananook

50-50 sounds about right...depends on what we do (or don't do) in the next 20 yrs.

5-12-2008 1:24 AM

Oortcloud

It doesn't help that there is a certain caste of people (cough ... christians ... cough ...) that WANT the annihilation of earth to pass so that they can force the end times of their beliefs.

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