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Re: A few select individuals (etc)
Nick Hoffman — (archived)

"These things have been taking out continents about once per thousand years in recent times...
that's real poeple, real dead."

Have you recallibrated for the redefinition of Rio Cuerto yet?

When you do, try to modify your phraseology. "Taking out a continent" apparently isn't enough to destroy the civilisations in it, or affect more than a minor amount of wildlife.

Doesn't sound too bad to me.

Point is, the Earth is very big and mostly empty, and on a cosmic scale a few people and animals don't matter.

Crying wolf all the time will only dilute the real message that we DO need to work towards NEO detection and impact mitigation, but we don't need to do it this year, or even in your lifetime.

Why, I even go out at noon without a steel umbrella, and I've never been killed even once, yet...

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