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Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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