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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] test of icbm intercept<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:13 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>>>… the commies like the current POTUS and helped him get<br>elected. Perhaps that means they will make a deal, then both countries get<br>as many ABMs as they want, then suddenly... for the first time in a typical<br>human lifetime, we can no longer destroy the planet, even if we wanted to.<br><br>Terrifying! How shall we cope?<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>>…There's more than one way to destroy the planet…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Oh OK well then. That’s a relief.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>>…We've still got a lot of dead dinos to burn... and that eventually leads to everyone drowning in what was once polar ice, right?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Eh, no, we don’t all drown. This has me worried again, for all the polar ice melting fails to utterly destroy mankind and all civilization. That scenario is ineffective at mutual assured destruction. Oh dear!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>>…Ok, so it's not as exciting as nuclear exchange but I hear we're already well on our way…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Ja, all this comes just when we were getting comfortable with the old notion of a fiery holocaust enveloping all of mankind. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>A slow-motion Armageddon over several centuries with humanity pulling back from the coastline and building new cities and better civilizations inland is just too terrifying to imagine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>