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EXTINCTION BY COSMIC CATASTROPHE...
...three greatest athletic events (the other two are the World Series and the Super Bowl), but it is only part of an underlying phenomenon. Author John Feinstein has described that phenomenon in three books as "a basketball culture," an exploding species of striving that casts ghetto kids with cosmic stars...
...Comics Superman editor Mike Carlin, hoping to boost newsstand sales, declares that "an escapee from a cosmic lunatic asylum" named Doomsday will murder the Man of Steel. The state of Pennsylvania touts itself as a place for "multiple personalities" to suggest it has much to offer tourists. A character on Roseanne argues that only "murderers, psychos and schizos" can beat a lie-detector test. On election eve, Ross Perot tells a cheering crowd, "We're all crazy again now! We got buses lined up outside to take you back to the insane asylum...
...life on Earth may no longer have to wait helplessly for the next catastrophe. In a paper titled "Cosmic Bombardment," scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory declare that "terrestrial life now has a representative (mankind) capable of actively defending it from the bombardment -- after four eons of simply enduring...
Still, the very notion of having high-megaton missiles at the ready, either on Earth or in orbit, was unsettling to many at the workshop, who feared that they could be turned against fellow humans rather than cosmic interlopers. They simply "did not want to talk about very large amounts of energy," says Canavan. "And therefore they wanted to ignore the problem." Some suggested heatedly, in leaks to the press, that pro-nuclear Star Wars scientists, frustrated by the down-sizing of their projects, were using the asteroid and comet threat as an excuse for revitalizing their jobs...