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Humans surviving extinction? A little less optimistic....

Facebook friend Steve Zara and I engaged a discussion on a thread for this article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-17/anders-breivik-trial-begins/3954478 in this facebook thread; https://www.facebook.com/david.saintloth/posts/221273084638862 At one point we were questioning how it is that the near future may lead to attacks using genetically engineered agents by unstable individuals could potentially lead to human extinction. Steve responded at one point with this statement. "The effort required to reach 100% gets exponentially higher." Where he was referring to the effectiveness of any attack in reducing the human population to zero. The problem is....... "The fallacy Steve,  is that you're assuming we've got one way at a time to climb that exponential curve of possibility to extinction...we don't. When I can sit at my GDE (genetic engineering development environment) and code together a pathogen that will kill let us say only 60% of humans,