You'd be shocked. Biowarfare isn't anywhere near as thorough as people usually think - 1% survival out of six billion people is still a fucking lot, more than enough to pick up the pieces barring a whole string of acts of -complete- idiocy.
Nukes? Not near as many around as there used to be, and again, people really overestimate these.
Nanoclasym? It's a -lot- easier to take a Gobbler apart than it is to build one.
About the only thing I can think of as being really practicable would be a fucking huge falling rock, and by the time we get that far, I expect we'll have both nanotech and a fairly serious offworld population base.
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Nukes? Not near as many around as there used to be, and again, people really overestimate these.
Nanoclasym? It's a -lot- easier to take a Gobbler apart than it is to build one.
About the only thing I can think of as being really practicable would be a fucking huge falling rock, and by the time we get that far, I expect we'll have both nanotech and a fairly serious offworld population base.
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."