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Re:Pentagon study declares American Empire is 'collapsing' by majkinetor on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:44PM (#14806230)
Mass extinction due to meteor strike is just one hypothesis.
Re:Pentagon study declares American Empire is 'collapsing' by castis on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:55PM (#14806351)
That's 100% of the point.

If other planets/moons/whatever haven't been colonized by the time humanity gets empirical data for that hypothesis, a lot of people are going to wish they'd put that a little higher on the list.