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by lightsighter 2891 days ago
That's all fine and good right up until the next >=10km diameter asteroid has a collision with the Earth, in which case all those humans with cancer will be in the same state as all the humans without cancer. Given that it's been about 65 million years since the last one of these and they tend to happen about every 50 million years or so, you could argue that we are due...