We hit 6.5 Billion souls here on Starship Earth in early February of this year. That number is double what it was in 1960, but, even more scarey, we went from 6 Bill to 6.5 in only less than 2 years. Only a moron would say that this kind of growth can be sustained. So. Here's my question - What, in your opinion, is going to take us out? Famine? War? Pestilence? This Avian Flu in Asia looks promising. My money is on a hit from Space, a rock we don't see coming. If it comes at us from the direction of the Sun, we'll have about two weeks warning, just enough time to max out all your Credit cards. There's an asteroid named Apophis that will come frighteningly close to us on April 13, a Friday, BTW, of the year 2029. In fact. it will be visible to the naked eye as it zooms past us. According to the experts, if Apophis passes through a "keyhole", a spot about 2,000 M wide, on that pass, it will hit us square on when it comes by again, in 2036. The keyhole is a gravitational spot that will alter the rock's path just enough to clobber us next time around.

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