Does anyone really have a problem with the human race coming to an end sometime in the future? Most species don't last forever. Scientists have even figured out an average lifetime for species. I don't know what it is, but it sure is less than infinity. Considering how much collective pain is represented JUST ON PC, then estimating from that a global annual figure, gets you to IMMENSE quantities of real misery. (We could work it out in quantitative terms by starting with a metrical unit called the "Sade.") Why would anyone want to keep this up infinitely? Does any other species on earth have to put up with as much misery as we do? So let's look forward to the end and be happy about it. Surely the ants could do as good a job. No one expects a TV show to run forever, or a Broadway play, or a particular magazine or newspaper, or a particular empire, or an individual human life. So the prospect of species eradication shouldn't trouble us as much as Stephen Hawking seems to feel it will. The hell with the moon and mars, we'll stay here, stay home and all pass away in our communal fatherland.

Take care.