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Letters: Earth’s Ineluctable Destiny (1 Letter)


To the Editor:

Re “Kissing the Earth Goodbye in About 7.59 Billion Years” (March 11): Given human behavioral history, the odds are that our species will annihilate itself through violence or stupidity, rendering the planet completely uninhabitable in the process, far short of Earth’s estimated demise 7.59 billion years hence. Scientific efforts at calculating this number are a case of locking the cosmic barn doors long, long after the horses, their riders and their habitat are gone.

Dennis B. Appleton

Madison, Wis.

Science Times welcomes letters from readers. Those submitted for publication must include the writers name, address and telephone number. E-mail should be sent to scitimes@nytimes.com. Send letters to Science Editor, The New York Times, 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018.

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