Interesting cousins you have Gordon, by the way, if Barry needs
an investment advisor...........Kidding!

But, seriously, I think that something is protecting us. I
am not really that religeous so maybe an explanation is we are
all in a gigantic matrix game or who knows what. But the fact
that we have survived so far is against all odds. For example,
I read about fuel air explosives that are almost as powerful as
an atom bomb. They were invented by the Nazis during WW2.
Basically, if I remember the details correctly. A professor
stirred a few pounds of very finely powdered brown charcoal
with some liquid oxygen. When this was ignited the explosion
took out a few square miles of forest. Now, can you imagine
this in the center of Manhattan? I used to work in Manhattan
so I have imagined it. The fact that no one has done this
or a used a "dirty bomb" or any of the other amazing easy
methods of destruction indicates to me that the Mad Max
future may not be coming soon.

Trevor