07-22-2018, 10:02 PM
Near-extinction events such as supervolcano eruptions, a gamma-ray burst, a new Ice Age, or the strike of a body comparable to the one that exterminated the non-avian dinosaurs would be beyond the scope of this study. The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 that struck Jupiter demonstrates what is possible. To be sure, Jupiter may largely clear the Earth's orbit of such dangerous objects with its gravity, pulling them in before they can get in range of the Earth. but not all such objects have missed.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.