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4. No way

Reply to StevieM (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 28, 2019, 04:15 PM

Aug 2019

Civilization might be set back a few hundred years and billions will die, but there's close to no chance of all humans dying any time soon. It would take something TRULY world ending like the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, a gamma ray burst, or something else of that nature.

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I think time is running out in so many places.. mountain grammy Aug 2019 #1

I used to think we were smarter than yeast . . . hatrack Aug 2019 #2

I just hope that there is any single person left. StevieM Aug 2019 #3

No way Calculating Aug 2019 #4

Or hydrogen sulphide? Or methane hydrate? Would they do it? I think you should read this article. StevieM Aug 2019 #5