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To: Scumbria who wrote (129987)	12/20/2000 5:58:45 PM
From: TimF	of 1581934

Millions of Americans die every year because of disease caused by poor diet. 25,000 die every year in car accidents, and an equal number by gunshot wounds. Have any ever died from nuclear missile or asteroid attack? There are a lot more serious (and less costly) problems to obsess about. The chance of a nuclear missle attack is small. The chance of a large astroid attack in the near future is even smaller. However the destruction caused by either of these things is so great that it makes a lot of sense to be prepared against them. They could easily be a lot more devistateing then global warming, but you are willing to devote much greater resources to that issue then these programs will cost. Many environmental and health regulations have never saved any lives. The estimates for some of the stupider laws would perhaps have them save one life every several thousand years after spending more then a $1tril to prevent the hazard. Nuclear war depends on human decision so the chance is hard to estimate. As far as astroid strikes go a big astroid strike capable of doing more damage then a nuclear war combined with global warming from CO2, will probably happen in the next few hundred million years. Quite possibly very early in that period. The chance that it will happen in the next century is very small but considering it could wipe out all life on the planet, and the cost per life saved (take the money spent and devide it by the estimated chance of a big strike in the next century multipied by the number of people that would be killed by such a strike), is not unreasonable, esp if you give extra wait to the fact that it would not just kill so many people but wipe us out completly.

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