Maleki wrote:
What a revelation! All ten scenarios mentioned are
[sic] bull****.

[In reference to an article from the April 14, 2005 Guardian.]

Obviously, they are NOT all bull**** since some are things that are
completely out of anyone's control which can happen at any time.

Let's run down the list.

1: Climate Change
Life will adapt ... as it did in the other catastrophic mass extinction
events.

2: Telomere erosion
Fact. All Mammal species (except one) have all the male reproductive
machinery on the Y chromosome which -- notwithstanding its ability to
recombine -- is already in the process of losing viability.

Some species will adapt as the machinery progressively migrates to
other parts of the DNA, as has happened numerous times in the past. In
one case, this has already happened (a mouse species).

In the rest, the male of the species will simply go extinct and,
barring the possibility of the species going all-female (all-female
species exist), the species will go extinct.

3: Viral Pandemic
1300 is a case in point. Look at the world population estimates at the
US Census Bureau or UN sites; also the graph in the Kapitza paper
(Figures 1 and 2) reproduced under
http://www.federation.g3z.com/Population/Kapitza.htm

Interestingly, recent research has shown that the plague (despite being
bacterial) is very close in terms of its effects to AIDS and this is
being exploited (for instance) with historical research uncovering what
was behind those people who showed immunity to the plague, to try and
determine a way to engender immunity to AIDS.

4: Terrorism
Danger sco 2
It's a topical issue.

5: Nuclear war
Danger sco 8
Actually, under 5.

6: Meteorite impact
It could happen anytime, anywhere.

7: Robots taking over
Cyborgs. Not robots. It will happen. That's not a prediction. It's
a promise.

8: Cosmic ray blast from exploding star
Another anytime anywhere. We recently had a major blast so intense
that it momentarily lit up the entire night sky.

9: Super-volcanos
"Approximately every 50,000 years the Earth experiences a
super-volcano.
Including one c. 70,000 BC which virtually wiped out the human race.
Another: anytime anywhere.

10: Earth swallowed by a black hole
Would the Brookhaven labs (and perhaps the entire Earth) end
up being swallowed by a black hole created by the new accelerator?

Brookhaven, in fact, reported the possibility of *already having*
created a momentary black hole recently.

Small black holes are not stable and will decay away in microscopic
time.

Rogue black holes in interstellar space are a complete unknown, since
they would not show themselves until close enough to a substantial
amount of matter to start giving off radiation.