From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
    SolomonW wrote:   
      
   > Agreed but I do not see the relevance here as we are talking here of a   
   > possible global problem.   
      
   Thera was a global problem, yes, as were many other   
   natural disasters, not all of them volcanoes.   
      
   Impacts from space are a known issue...   
      
   Smaller disasters have smaller effects, more   
   localized, but the  studied effects can still   
   be distantly removed from their ultimate source.   
      
   Big disaster are global. The impact that wiped   
   out the dinosaurs was catastrophic to life but,   
   you can get a lot smaller than that and still   
   change the course of human history.   
      
        ...one or more impacts around 800,000 years   
   ago is probably what stopped humans from being   
   "Out of Asia." And then Toba, a little more than   
   70,000 years ago, is probably why we call our   
   species Hss instead of Hsn.   
      
      
      
      
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