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September 10, 2008
How can we reduce the risk of human extinction?
The Large Hadron Collider will be tested for the first time amid concern that the device could create a black hole that destroys the Earth.
In occasion Anders Sandberg, Jason G. Matheny and Milan M. Ćirković write the article How can we reduce the risk of human extinction? in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of September 9th.
Sandberg, Matheny and Ćirković state that 99.9 percent of all the species that have ever existed on Earth have gone extinct, humans may one day do likewise. Whether it's superbugs, asteroids, supervolcanoes, supernovas, or others, the risks are real. Humanity should take concrete steps to mitigate these risks.
Posted by Waldemar at September 10, 2008 04:50 PM