From a ‘Net-friend (26.07.02):

The response to this is fascinating (as well as the current need to tie in the news with Hollywood entertainment). The broadsheets pretty well ignored it. The Tele seemed to make a bit of joke about it: Prepare for the day that will change the earth. There’s a fair chance it will hit, but a greater chance it won’t.

Really?

One TV news had someone saying there was a one-in-ten chance it would hit. And left it at that.

Another TV news said there was between a one-in-ten chance and a one-in-a-million chance.

What the heck, we’ve got 17 years to think about it.

Think about the things people do and don’t do because there’s a one-in-ten chance they’ll happen.

What are the chances of winning Lotto? Getting hurt sky-diving? Getting cancer because you take hormone supplements? Or because you don’t breast feed enough? Putting your money into super. Or the pokies? Getting HIV from unprotected sex?

One-in-ten chance huh?

With those kinda odds it seems to me it wouldn’t be that irrational (and certainly no less rational than decisions people make for bigger odds) to invest in a nuclear-winter bunker that would be fully operational by January 2019.

Now of course, nobody wants us to start thinking like that. But wonder: if as the years pass and the odds start shortening … what will we do? And will “they” tell us?

Was it the corporal in Dad’s Army who yelled in terror: “Don’t panic!”

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