I have come to accept that disaster is inevitable, it's only a matter of when but even Tom told me not to live life with the fear of disaster
That's rich coming from the guy who said "most people on Earth will die well before 2012". In my opinion this was a very irresponsible statement and nothing short of scaremongering.
So we have 4 and a bit years where >50% and <100% of the population will die. Going to be interesting times!
Actually I am in the mood for a bit of Chalko bashing so here are two more points that annoy me:
1) Chalko's nujournal.net starts at volume 2 and has two entries labeled volume 4. Why should anyone take this page seriously when the publisher doesn't even seem to be able to count!
2) Chalko seems to have abandoned publishing his research and instead has devoted his life to his own self preservation. In my opinion he could have done a lot more for humanity by continuing his excellent research and publishing it.
While we are talking about disasters and self preservation, I just don't see the point. This is after all just one life of many. Who cares if we die in 5 years or in 50 years? Death by starvation, for example, may be an excellent experience. If we only had one life and one chance then self preservation would be the utmost priority.
Self preservation in my opinion is plain selfishness.
NJones