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First off the Earth, and life on it, is gonna be around for a long time to come. Natural disasters has happened on this planet in greater force and with greater frequency many other times in its history. As for humanity though, its harder to say. Only in the last several decades has humanity ever concerned itself with the possibility of our own species one day going extinct. As I see it the threat is present in two forms: environmental degradation and nuclear warfare. Either way, the problem is there and it could happen in our lifetimes but there is no way of knowing. The solutions to either of these problems are within our lifetimes grasp too, but also no way of knowing.
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"The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751
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