| Show A22 The Salt Lake Tribune Millennium Creeps Up On Humanity Continued From A-- of the Millennium Tragedies Some of the worst tragedies in the past 1556 Earthquake kills 830000 in China 1 000 years: 1846 1941-4- 5 1970 Irish potato famine kills 1 million 5 to 6 million Jews killed by Nazis Atomic bombs dropped in Japan kill 270000 200000 killed in East Pakistan tidal wave l 1 1000 1500 2000 ! holding signs proclaiming The End is Near As the year 2000 approaches (purists say the turn actually will occur in 2001) visitors to New Yorks Times Square Londons Speakers NATIONWORLD Sunday November 30 1346-135- 0 The Black Death kills 25 million of European one-thir- d population 1642 Rebels destroy Kaifeng seawall in China 300000 drowned 1918 Spanish flu kills 20 million worldwide Corner and pretty much anywhere remotely in the vicinity of San Francisco will undoubtedly hear the same type of thing Could the doomsayers be right? Lets go to our panel of experts This is not something that causes me to lie awake at night said John Lewis a University of Arizona specialist in comet and asteroid collisions Using the craters on Earth and I 1981-9- 7 306 million people infected with HIVAIDS worldwide Associated Press sand years ahead of time that such an object was on a collision course with Earth The world would have plenty of time to find a way to nudge it off course with carefully placed nuclear missiles or some similar means The chances of civilization coming to an end in the next thousand years due to an impact are probably slim Lewis said OK but what about ozone depletion? Arent chlorofluorocar-bon- s eating a hole in the invisible blanket that protects us from the suns harmful ultraviolet rays? Yes they are But thanks to international agreements that will g chemphase out icals early in the next century things look pretty good on that front Chlorofluorocarbon concentration in the atmosphere has already begun dropping thanks to the international phaseout and scientists expect the ozone to be back to normal by about 2050 The news isnt so good down the ozone-destroyin- the moon as a gauge Lewis and his colleagues have determined that every millennium or so an object packing 50 to 100 megatons of explosive power hits Earth Thats enough to wipe out a mawhich would be a jor city shame But its not nearly enough to bring civilization to its knees It would take an object miles across packing 100 million mega tons or more to imperil the entire globe And things that big only hit Earth every 10 million years at the most putting their chances of hitting during any 1000 year period at less than one in 10000 And if those odds arent enough to reassure you Lewis said astronomers would know a thou Your Ticket To The World! 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