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To: b-witch who wrote (5785)	10/17/2001 11:05:11 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 281500

BBC: Breaking news, Arafat orders police to arrest killers of slain Israeli cabinet minister. No details as yet. Duh. Someone is determined that any progress is undermined. Two steps forward, three steps back. And in a story oddly related to world events (some may say opportunistic hype): news.bbc.co.uk Scientists criticise Hawking 'hype' Professor Stephen Hawking's latest fears for the future of humanity have been criticised by academics for being contradictory and little more than hype for his forthcoming book. "Apocalyptics typically exaggerate the possible dangers we may face in the future while ignoring or underestimating the probability of finding a social, technological or medical remedy for the predicament." Dr Peiser said that humans and our hominid ancestors had survived more than five million years of recurring onslaughts from ice ages, impacts from space, and global plague epidemics. "Technological and societal evolution has now reached a level of complexity that renders the probability of human survival for the next 1,000 years drastically higher than at any previous stage of our long history. "There is no reason to believe that our generation or [any in this] millennium will be the last one on Earth," he added. That's funny -- World War I and previous were much safer. We could not possibly have done everyone in back then.