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The End Of Life As We Know It looms yet again

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The End Of Life As We Know It:

No matter where I turn, I am met with another barrage of imminent doom.

Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University mulls the implications of finding - or not finding - life on Mars, and theorizes in great detail why if we find even the lowest of life forms there it suggests that it will soon (in evolutionary terms) be lights-out for the human race.

Once again, we learn we are doomed: "Hope dims that Earth will survive Sun's death."

The slim chance our planet will survive when the Sun begins its death throes has been ruled out. ...

The End Of Life As We Know It continues to threaten.

I’ll admit to liking a couple of Beatles songs but the idea that we should make them our deep space musical ambassadors to possibly hostile alien life forms just strikes me as needlessly initiating negotiations from a position of weakness:

The Beatles are about to become radio stars in a whole new way.NASA on Monday will broadcast the Beatles’ song “Ac