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To: Ilaine who wrote (26844)	1/4/2003 8:46:29 PM
From: jim black	Respond to of 74559

maybe you're right CB jb

To: Ilaine who wrote (26844)	1/4/2003 9:18:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

CB, 10 cities nuked in the USA would be a world-scale dramatic event [or 10 events for insurance purposes]. But as you say, life goes on. Two years later, the gaps would fill in and though it's probably politically incorrect to say it, a lot of people might think the opportunity to build some decent infrastructure without a lot of town-planning processes lasting a decade was not all bad. Which is only to say that viewed from the future, we can imagine the horror of Hiroshima, Dresden, The Blitz, Dachau, the American civil war and all the mayhem leading up to now, but it's not really part of our lives. Nature very quickly fills in any gaps. I was impressed with Rotterdam decades ago and only later realized that was new, whereas other cities are old and jammed and hopeless, because it was leveled by the Germans. Those living in modern Rotterdam no doubt appreciate the modernity. Which is not to advocate mayhem - just that even those horrors pass into history and in the big scale of 6 billion people, even 6 cities in the USA are relatively trivial [60,000,000 people of 6,000,000,000 is only 1:100 - more than that died of AIDS in San Francisco if I recall correctly]. Imagine 25% of South Africa, Botswana etc with AIDS. This is a replay of the Great Plague of Europe. Heck, even if the whole USA vanished tomorrow, it wouldn't exactly end humanity. My cash flow would take a ding and there'd be a few problems in the world's economic system. But even the America's Cup competitions would carry on uninterrupted. Even CDMA production would barely miss a beat [since it's largely in Korea now]. Who the heck is Caligula anyway? Sounds not the sort I want around. I'm more the peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, love and contentment type - that's much better for people than fear. I know I can ask Google. I won't bother. I guess he's some old-time Roman wacko. Probably keen on nailing people to the cross who disagree with him. I wonder how much people around the world would panic if 10 cities in NZ were vanished. Hahaha! Or even the whole country. They wouldn't be able to find where it was on a map and wouldn't know the difference. Though SI would save server space, so it's an ill wind that blows nobody good. Mqurice