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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Glen writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>< </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>But those (and other) plights will bleed through that disjointness and affect every aspect of every US citizen's life, whether they register it or not. ><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The only way I can see for this bleed through to be acknowledged, collectively, is by repeated training exercises. The Water of Life and the Spice Agony (Dune), come to mind \u2013 selection pressure. It doesn\u2019t really matter what those consequences are, but at least prediction and adaptation have some practical utility. Maybe the adaptation is to build a bunker in Kauai or spend several trillion dollars to go to Mars?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Marcus<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>