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WILL A PLAGUE DESTROY THE WORLD?

By Arthur Zulu

Figure out this puzzle. What are these? Oropouche, Rocio, Chikungunya, Mokola, Duvenhage. Q. Guanarito, VEE, LeDantec, Sindbis, Marburg, O’nyongnyong. Yes, give me your answer.

“Names of new planets” No, come down to earth. “Names of new fish species” No, come off river. “Botanical names”. No, leave forest. “Characters in a Greek drama”. No, exit theater.

Ok. No idea. Let me help you. Now, try this.

“I am greatest killer in this century. I was living under skin of chimpanzees, till some hungry bushmen invaded forest, killed game and ate us up. From forest to dinner table, I can now be found in bodies of millions of persons, destroying their immune systems and sending them to their untimely graves. I have a cousin in this obituary business called HIV. What am I?”

Of course, you got it right -- AIDS. So saying goes in some quarters that someday, a plague would wipe out world. But can they be right?

Well, if you see emerging new diseases, some with strange names as you saw in above list, you would subscribe. The common trait about these diseases -- old and new, is that they are deadly and have defied medical cure.

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ARE SPACE ALIENS COMING TO DESTROY US?

By Arthur Zulu

The cinema hall was packed full. The audience cheered and laughed at show. Well, for one thing, it was fiction for they know that such thing is impossible in real life. After all, here they are, seated without any invading men from space.

But wait a minute. Space invaders? Yes, call them ET’s, little green men, or any other name. That cinema show may be for real. Because some people believe that one fateful day, extraterrestrials will seize earth.

Come to think of it. In history of civilization when has nations not been at each other’s throat? From ancient to modern times. And with sophisticated weapons. In end, some nations have been wiped out, while others have emerged. Show me Babylon. Show me Carthage. Or show me Songhai.

So what makes you think that some blood-thirsty space men are not desperately searching for us. To make prisoners. Keep as pets. Or destroy!

That is a chilling thing. As chilling as crusades. Or Jihads. Or world wars. Or war against terrorists.

Now, just in case you think that earth is only place where living creatures are playing around, you had better think twice. For there could be life out there in Mars. Or Europa, Jupiter’s moon. Or elsewhere for that matter.

Why shouldn’t there be? The Milky Way alone has about 100 billion stars. Imagine that number. How can anyone think that only lucky number is earth. Could there not be more winning tickets? Perhaps one?

And suppose we work on ratio of one earth for one Galaxy. What about other 100 billion galaxies in universe? Could there not be at least ten more earths?