'The chances of you living 50 years are very small': Theoretical physicist explains why humanity likely won't survive to see all the forces unified

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He basically believes the chance of a nuclear war are about 2% per year, so that gets you about 35 years. I remember as a child during the Cuban Missile crisis we would duck under our tables at school so 2% is not a crazy number. And I think some kind of limited exchange is likely in that period of time, but will it wipe out most things on earth? Will the big powers go all in? Maybe a limited exchange in the Middle East would wreck the M.E. but the rest of the world would learn a lesson and maybe a billion would die, but not everybody, idk. Here is an archived version around the paywall.

‘The chances of you living 50 years are very small’: Theoretical phys…

archived 19 Apr 2026 14:50:36 UTC

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The clock has always been pretty much 1 minute to midnight as far as I can remember. Pure speculation on his part. We may not wake tomorrow, or maybe we are good for another 100 years. Science fiction has provided some other likely scenarios for offing ourselves. Right now I am more afraid of AI than nuclear warfare.

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And then there’s global warming with sea level rise, the collapse of the Atlantic Circulation Current, increased CO2 in the atmosphere acidifying the oceans and thereby vastly reducing fish harvests.
Need I go on.
But wait… there isn’t any global warming…

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From climate change predictors I have seen it go back and forth from global freezing to global warming. And at the time the scientists were convinced that they were right.

Since the government forecasters from the U.S. and Europe with their multimillion-dollar supercomputers can’t even accurately predict next week’s forecast, let alone next year’s, we just have to wait and see.

As a side note, they could not even get future population increases right. Now, many are predicting catastrophe from underpopulation.

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This site, hypothetically, is based on science and reason. The US government is in the process of destroying science and climate monitoring. Current media, almost completely controlled by the US government and its petrochemical manipulators, is in the process of rewriting reality to convince the masses that “there is no global warming”.

You can kill the messenger, but it doesn’t change the truth.

Those who reject the facts regarding the rate of global warming and it’s effects may doom all of us to attempt to live through the consequences.

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