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Old 11-November-2005, 12:25 AM
grant hutchison grant hutchison is offline
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Originally Posted by Gullible Jones
Okay, I'll put things very simply and bluntly:

From a point in the history of any civilization, you can't predict with any accuracy how long that civilization will last. Period.
Ah, the Argument from Repeated Protestations of Increasing Loudness. One of my favourites.

Sorry. Couldn't resist. Just teasing.

Seriously: Carter's argument would say that your NEO is just the sort of catastrophe needed to explain our apparent location near the End of Days. And that the billion-year civilization is of course possible ... just unlikely, given how close to the start of it all we find ourselves.

Grant Hutchison
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