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Humans just can’t get enough of the thrill of uncertainty. While being on a spheroid rock that is hurtling across the universe at a break neck speed is already exciting enough if you really consider all the other unknowns that could be lying in wait behind the darkness of space, a lot of people continue to push rumors and concepts to make people panic and run around like headless chickens.

Armageddon.

Apocalypse.

The end of the world.

All these terms resonates deeply with just about every person on the planet. To some, a string of earthquakes, cyclones and untimely deaths all add up to the End of Days. One cannot really fault man. Man’s memory is limited to a mere number of years. While some people can live for a century, the human brain is only at an optimum level for fifty years at the most so the quality of memories. While memories, observations and learnings of a past generation can be documented, it still doesn’t resonate as concretely as an actual experience of a current generation. This is why it’s easy to dismiss the things that have happened before and overstate the gravity of the things that are happening at present.

Just two centuries ago, Mt. Tambora in the island of Krakatoa had a largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. Imagine how scared people would have been during those times – it was mentioned in some accounts that the sound of the explosion as well as the ash was appreciated in places that were far from the source.

Millions of years ago, an asteroid miles across hit the Yucatan Peninsula. I can’t think of a single more devastating thing. And oh, if you didn’t know how the story ‘ended’, the asteroid story arc didn’t exactly conclude the the book to the apocalypse.

Worse things have happened before our lifetimes. You will have to be terribly gullible or narcissistic to even consider that OUR generation is among the last generations on Earth.

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