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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (42115)	1/9/2002 1:15:00 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

"Could you expand on what you mean by "send them back to the desert"? No - secret...

To: TimF who wrote (42115)	1/9/2002 1:22:39 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Yes, and smallpox, and the plague and other major flu epidemics or other diseases. None of them came close to wiping our species out. I remember reading World Dynamics by Jay Forrester in a class on general systems theory in grad school. He modeled the world and came up with the end of the world about thirty years from now due to some type of plague. I really should go back and read that book. It made quite an impression on me. I recall being disappointed that I probably wouldn't live long enough to see what happened. I was much younger then, of course. And more easily impressed. I probably wouldn't give him the time of day now. Nonetheless, I think it's feasible for some bug to come pretty close to wiping us out. Not likely, but feasible.