Awatmath.1949 net.space utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Wed Mar 10 13:01:36 1982 Re: life is dangerous on planets! Large impacts might wipe out races, but most impacts would be small, and would only have the effect of potentially destroying civilizations. Our civilization (world civilization that is) is quite young, and developed in much less than the expected mean time between impacts anywhere.