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From: neal@denelcor.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: Nuclear exchange.
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Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 15:25:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  6 15:25:02 1983
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>Only one problem that I see with `the microbes will outlast us' theory of
>Earthly regeneration after Nuclear Holocaust:
>
>	How many more billions of years will the Sun last?

	I don't pretend to be an expert but since none have responded:
	
	The best estimates I have heard give the sun and solar system at
least 10-20 billion more years, enough to give the earth a couple more
chances anyway--even starting from scratch, i.e. chemical rather than
biological evolution.  If even microbes survive, we (we--what do you mean
"we") can probably cut the time to evolve something of comparable
complexity to ourselves about in half.

			Regards,
				Neal Weidenhofer
				Denelcor, Inc.
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