Reply #38: That's like the third time I've heard that comment here. I makes me wonder...

[napoleon_in_rags]

...If there is some Strangelovian dimension to this whole thing. I can just see that German mad scientist holed up in the mountain with his nutritional algae and solar power, waiting to seal the vault doors with a few of his comrades only to come out in a few decades and repopulate the planet.

The extermination of the human race is unlikely precisely because of weirdos, the outliers. Somebody will survive. Its that willingness to accept that nobody will so we may as well give up that I question.