Well We're All Going to Cinders

The COIN debate just doesn't seem to have the relevance it did moments ago when I was informed by the NY Times that the world has zero chance of long-term survival.

Dr. Smith called the new result “a touch depressing” in a series of e-mail messages. But “looked at another way,” he added, “it is an incentive to do something about finding ways to leave our planet and colonize other areas in the galaxy.”

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“So,” he said, “I would be surprised if anyone were able to rescue the Earth again in a future paper.”

US Air Force, the time has come to earn your keep. Beam me up...