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To: koan who wrote (239890)	12/14/2013 2:57:52 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542054

<<<<< So our only goal is to stay alive until we evolve enough to stay alive>>>>> My bet is there is no chance in hell we survive ............unless there is indeed a God. Interesting piece in Scientific American about an evolving fungi in BC, Washington State and Oregon. Seems to me it is but a matter of time until the right genes reshuffle in a virus, bacteria or fungi and target us - that's what they do and they good at it.

To: koan who wrote (239890)	12/14/2013 3:42:08 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 542054

Even Sir James Lovelock.. sees a few million ..making it through...The Squeeze.. ........................................................ en.wikipedia.org The Toba Event 'Its erupted mass was 100 times greater than that of the largest volcanic eruption in recent history, the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which caused the 1816 " Year Without a Summer" in the northern hemisphere. [11] The Toba eruption took place in Indonesia and deposited an ash layer approximately 15 centimetres thick over the entirety of South Asia. A blanket of volcanic ash was also deposited over the Indian Ocean, and the Arabian and South China Sea. [12] Deep-sea cores retrieved from the South China Sea have extended the known reach of the eruption, suggesting that the 2,800 km3 calculation of the erupted mass is a minimum value or an underestimate. ...'