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 E-Mail IMAGE: Launch of SM-3 Block IB interceptor from guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70). view more  Credit: U.S. Navy From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could radically change, and soon. Scientists will forecast the fate of the planet at a press conference during the 2021 APS April Meeting. "Our Earth is 45 million centuries old. But this century is the first when one species--ours--can determine the biosphere's fate," said Martin Rees, the United Kingdom's Astronomer Royal and a founder of the Centre for the ...

Premise of this whole story is we don't even know what price we're going to pay for this because we've taken something for granted that they're managing existential risks. >> tell the story about the department of agriculture? >> like the department of energy it's sort of misnamed. it's really the department of food or nutrition. the vast majority of the budget goes to feeding people. school lunch programs and so on and so forth. it's also a giant science operation. and it distributes $3 billion a year in grants to academics to basically prepare for preserving the food supply in result of clim...

And really insult them. and we're going to pay -- the premise of this whole story is we don't even know what price we're going to pay for this because we've taken something for granted that they're managing existential risks. >> tell the story about the department of agriculture? >> like the department of energy it's sort of misnamed. it's really the department of food or nutrition. the vast majority of the budget goes to feeding people. school lunch programs and so on and so forth. it's also a giant science operation. and it distributes $3 billion a year in grants to academics to basically pr...