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08-28-2011

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Originally Posted by wabard

I assume you mean how will planet earth end and not civilization / humans....
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All other options result in the earth surviving...

You scanned the list too quickly.

I understand most astronomers and cosmologists agree that number 1, "Red giant expansion of our Sun burns up the Earth", will happen no more than 5 billion years from now. The physical earth will be toasted, torn apart and absorbed.

Also, number 7, "The Big Crunch", probably refers to the expansion of the universe ending and then collapsing to the opposite of the big bang. I understand most believe this will not happen. But if it did, the physical earth would end up being compressed into the singularity.

And the last one, "Scientists trying to simulate a black hole will succeed", silly as it is, would physically destroy the earth.

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onak

ONAK(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   ONAK(1)

NAME

       onak - an OpenPGP compatible keyserver

SYNOPSIS

       onak [ options ] command [ parameters ]

DESCRIPTION

       Perform various keyserver actions.

   Options
       -b     Treat keys on stdin as binary rather than ASCII armoured.

       -c FILE
	      Use FILE as the config file instead of the default.

       -f     Display fingerprints when listing keys.

       -u     Update keys - output changes on stdout.

       -v     Verbose; increase loglevel.

   Commands
       add    Read OpenPGP keys from stdin and add them to the keyserver database.

       clean  Read OpenPGP keys from stdin, run the key cleaning routines against them and dump to stdout.

       delete Delete a given key from the keyserver.

       dump   Dump all the keys from the keyserver.

       get    Retrieves the requested key from the keyserver.

       getphoto
	      Retrieves the first photoid on the requested key and dumps to stdout.

       index  Search for a key and list it.

       vindex Search for a key and list it and its signatures.

EXAMPLES

       onak index noodles
	      List all keys in the keyserver that contain the word noodles.

       onak clean < dirty.key > clean.key
	      Clean up one or more PGP keys. Currently this will just dedupe UIDs.

       gpg --export | onak -b add
	      Export all keys on your gnupg keyring and import them into the keyserver.

FILES

       /etc/onak.conf		  default configuration file

NOTES

       This man page could probably do with some more details.

AUTHOR

       onak was written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>. It can be found at http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/onak.html

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