At 11:42 AM 6/17/01, you wrote:
>In a message dated 6/16/01 7:12:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><< Simple. The next ice age comes 50k years prematurely. The melting polar ice
> caps dump enough fresh water into the oceans to shut off the major ocean
> streams, especially the gulf stream, it starts to snow everywhere, the snow
> reflects the sun, the earth cools. Some evidence has shown that an ice age
> can start in 50 years. (From a Science magazine I read 2 years ago, don't
> know which week it was.) >>
>
>That's interesting. I hadn't heard the details on that one.
>
>I don't know if there's a dominant end of the world meme at the moment.
>Economic tyranny by the WTO and killer meteors are still hanging around.
>Environmental disaster due to global warming, ozone depletion and so forth
>also seems to be a popular one.
>
>I think the next end of the world will be biotechnology. There are already
>concerns about genetic engineering, growth hormones and human cloning. As the
>science advances, fears of misuse (genetic supermen, nanoplagues, etc.) are
>going to rise.
>
>Patrick Sweeney
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Drat! Here I was celebrating that we got through the 1990s without the
Eugenics Wars.
-- Ronn! :)
