It is a serious theme, but I had to grin nonetheless:

We have had scientists telling us the possibilities for decades. Now it's beyond that into probabilities. (Recall Erlich from the '60s.) (Brucie)

Brucie, I do recall and that's why I grin. You have picked the wrong name and the wrong date:

Paul Erlich as a man who in the sixties cried wolf and was proven right after all is a too funny picture.

Paul Erlich

Wolfgang